Fog Computing: State-of-Art, Open Issues, Challenges and Future Directions

The recent advancement of computing paradigm named “Fog Computing” helps to satisfy the real-time latency sensitive, geo-distributed applications that requires high computational demand. Fog computing function as a middle layer in-between sensors and IoT that brings computation, storage and network functionality of cloud. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis and challenges in fog computing and provides a taxonomy of these challenges and properties with their research challenges and future research directions.