• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a task distribution scheme in fog computing environment considering opportunistic fog computing nodes. As latency is one of the important performance metric for IoT(Internet of Things) applications, there have been lots of researches on the fog computing system. However, since the load can be concentrated to the specific fog computing nodes due to the spatial and temporal IoT characteristics, the load distribution should be considered to prevent the performance degradation. Therefore, this paper proposes a task distribution scheme which considers the static as well as opportunistic fog computing nodes according to their mobility feature. Especially, based on the task requirements, the proposed scheme supports the delay sensitive task processing at the static fog node and delay in-sensitive tasks by means of the opportunistic fog nodes for the task distribution. Based on the performance evaluation, the proposed scheme shows low service response time compared to the conventional schemes.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.89-100
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• 2022

With the advancement in the Internet of things Technology (IoT) cloud computing, billions of physical devices have been interconnected for sharing and collecting data in different applications. Despite many advancements, some latency - specific application in the real world is not feasible due to existing constraints of IoT devices and distance between cloud and IoT devices. In order to address issues of latency sensitive applications, fog computing has been developed that involves the availability of computing and storage resources at the edge of the network near the IoT devices. However, fog computing suffers from many limitations such as heterogeneity, storage capabilities, processing capability, memory limitations etc. Therefore, it requires an adequate task scheduling method for utilizing computing resources optimally at the fog layer. This work presents a comprehensive review of different task scheduling methods in fog computing. It analyses different task scheduling methods developed for a fog computing environment in multiple dimensions and compares them to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of methods. Finally, it presents promising research directions for fellow researchers in the fog computing environment.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2020

본 논문은 SDN 기반 네트워크에서 fog computing 서비스의 이동성을 제안하고자 한다. Fog computing 아키텍처는 컴퓨팅 및 배터리 자원의 제약이 있는 IoT(Internet of Things) 기기들에게 테스크 오프로딩을 가능하게 함으로써 IoT의 저지연/고성능 서비스를 위한 방안으로 연구되고 있다. 하지만 fog computing 아키텍처에서는 고정된 IoT 기기 뿐만 아니라 이동하는 IoT 기기도 서비스 대상 단말로 고려되어야 하기 때문에 이러한 기기의 이동성을 고려한 오프로딩 방안이 필요하다. 특히 저지연 응답 시간을 요구하는 IoT 서비스의 경우, 오프로딩 이후 단말이 이동했을 때 새로운 fog computing 노드와의 새로운 통신 연결 및 테스크 오프로딩 과정을 다시 수행해야 하기 때문에 지연시간이 발생하여 사용자의 QoS(Quality of Service) 저하가 발생할 수 있다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 단말의 이동성을 고려하여 테스크 또는 테스크의 결과를 이동 후의 fog computing 노드로 미리 migration 시키고 데이터 전송을 위한 rule 또한 미리 배치시킴으로써 통신 지연 및 서비스 복구 지연 시간을 줄일 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.440-448
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• 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main enablers for situation awareness needed in accomplishing smart cities. IoT devices, especially for monitoring purposes, have stringent timing requirements which may not be met by cloud computing. This deficiency of cloud computing can be overcome by fog computing for which fog nodes are placed close to IoT devices. Because of low capabilities of fog nodes compared to cloud data centers, fog nodes may not be deployed with all the services required by IoT devices. Thus, in this article, we focus on the issue of fog service placement and present the recent research trends in this issue. Most of the literature on fog service placement deals with determining an appropriate fog node satisfying the various requirements like delay from the perspective of one or more service requests. In this article, we aim to effectively place fog services in accordance with the pre-obtained service demands, which may have been collected during the prior time interval, instead of on-demand service placement for one or more service requests. The concept of the logical fog network is newly presented for the sake of the scalability of fog service placement in a large-scale smart city. The logical fog network is formed in a tree topology rooted at the cloud data center. Based on the logical fog network, a service placement approach is proposed so that services can be placed on fog nodes in a resource-effective way.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.348-351
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• 2016

최근 IoT 환경에서 많은 디바이스들의 등장과 더불어 특정 사용자만 접근 가능한 보호된 네트워크가 필요하게 되었다. IoT 네트워크 환경에 OAuth 프로토콜을 적용하여 인증하게 되면 보다 쉽게 네트워크 인증 체계를 구축할 수 있으나 OAuth는 공격자가 Token을 가로채게 되면 쉽게 공격에 노출되는 단점이 있어 2차 인증이 필수적이라고 할 수 있다. 궁극적인 IoT는 Fog Computing이 필수적이다. Fog Computing은 Cloud를 확장시켜 network Core에서 뿐만 아니라 Edge에서도 Computing이 가능하게 하고, node간의 통신을 가능하게 하는 플랫폼이다. Fog Computing의 장점으로는 Location awareness나 Support for mobility 등을 들 수 있다. Fog Computing내에서 사용할 인증이 이런 Fog Computing의 장점을 살린다면, 더 IoT에 걸맞은 인증을 할 수 있을 것이다. 이에 2차 인증에 기존의 인증서나 id/password, 또는 group key같은 번거로운 것을 이용하지 않고 Cyber-Physical-Social System을 사용한다면 user의 편리성을 더 증가시킬 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 Cyber-Physical-Social System기반의 인증에 관한 연구를 진행하려 한다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2017

Cloud computing has evolved into a core computing infrastructure for the internet that encompasses content, as well as communications, applications and commerce. By providing powerful computing and communications capabilities in the palm of the hand everywhere with a variety of smart devices, mobile applications such as virtual reality, sensing and navigation have emerged and radically changed the patterns people live. The data that is generated is getting bigger. Cloud computing, on the other hand, has problems with system load and speed due to the collection, processing and control of remote data. To solve this problem, fog computing has been proposed in which data is collected and processed at an edge. In this paper, we propose a system that dynamically selects a fog server that acts as a cloud in the edge. It serves as a mediator in the cloud, and provides information on the services and systems belonging to the cloud to the mobile device so that the mobile device can act as a fog. When the role of the fog system is complete, we provide it to the cloud to virtualize the fog. The heterogeneous problem of data of mobile nodes can be solved by using mDBaaS (Mobile DataBase as a Service) and we propose a system design method for this.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5654-5668
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• 2018

Driven by security and real-time demands of Internet of Things (IoT), the timing of fog computing and edge computing have gradually come into place. Gateways bear more nearby computing, storage, analysis and as an intelligent broker of the whole computing lifecycle in between local devices and the remote cloud. In fog computing, the edge broker requires X-aware capabilities that combines software programmability, stream processing, hardware optimization and various connectivity to deal with such as security, data abstraction, network latency, service classification and workload allocation strategy. The prosperous of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) pushes the possibility of gateway capabilities further landed. In this paper, we propose a software-defined gateway (SDG) scheme for fog computing paradigm termed as Fog Computing Zero-Knowledge Gateway that strengthens data protection and resilience merits designed for industrial internet of things or highly privacy concerned hybrid cloud scenarios. It is a proxy for fog nodes and able to integrate with existing commodity gateways. The contribution is that it converts Privacy-Enhancing Technologies rules into provable statements without knowing original sensitive data and guarantees privacy rules applied to the sensitive data before being propagated while preventing potential leakage threats. Some logical functions can be offloaded to any programmable micro-controller embedded to achieve higher computing efficiency.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2023

Fog computing diversifies cloud computing by using edge devices to provide computing, data storage, communication, management, and control services. As it has a decentralised infrastructure that is capable of amalgamating with cloud computing as well as providing real-time data analysis, it is an emerging method of using multidisciplinary domains for a variety of applications; such as the IoT, Big Data, and smart cities. This present study provides an overview of the security and privacy concerns of fog computing. It also examines its fundamentals and architecture as well as the current trends, challenges, and potential methods of overcoming issues in fog computing.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1002-1015
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• 2018

The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and the evident inadequacy of Cloud networks concerning management of numerous end nodes have brought about a shift of paradigm giving birth to Fog computing. Fog computing is an extension of Cloud computing that extends Cloud resources at the edge of the network, closer to the user. Cloud computing has become one of the essential needs of people over the Internet but with the emerging concept of IoT, traditional Clouds seem inadequate. IoT entails extremely low latency and for that, the Cloud servers that are distant and unknown to the user appear to be unsuitable. With the help of Fog computing, the Fog devices installed would be closer to the user that will provide an immediate storage for the frequently needed data. This paper discusses data migration between different storage types especially between Cloud devices and then presents a mechanism to migrate data between Cloud and Fog Layer. We call this mechanism Adaptive Deadline-Aware Scheme (ADAS) for Data migration between Cloud and Fog. We will demonstrate that we can access and process latency sensitive "hot" data through the proposed ADAS more efficiently than with a traditional Cloud setup.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.310-328
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• 2022

Internet of things (IoT) has emerged as the most popular technique that facilitates enhancing humans' quality of life. However, most time sensitive IoT applications require quick response time. So, processing these IoT applications in cloud servers may not be effective. Therefore, fog computing has emerged as a promising solution that addresses the problem of managing large data bandwidth requirements of devices and quick response time. This technology has resulted in processing a large amount of data near the data source compared to the cloud. However, efficient management of computing resources involving balancing workload, allocating resources, provisioning resources, and scheduling tasks is one primary consideration for effective computing-based solutions, specifically for time-sensitive applications. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the source management strategies considering resource limitations, heterogeneity, unpredicted traffic in the fog computing environment. It presents recent developments in the resource management field of the fog computing environment. It also presents significant management issues such as resource allocation, resource provisioning, resource scheduling, task offloading, etc. Related studies are compared indifferent mentions to provide promising directions of future research by fellow researchers in the field.