Edge and fog services

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Edge and fog computing is a new distributed computing paradigm [1] to meet increasing popularity of Internet of Things and distributed applications which can involve the generation of large volume and complex data sets, leading to complicated coordination among distributed processing and storage, etc. However, it could bring many benefits to the existing centralized systems by extending the scope of cloud computing, for example, to an end point of a network, allowing them to be more agile and dynamic, bringing resources close to end users or the places that happen to respond quickly and securely. The environment in which the edge or fog computing operates often includes heterogeneous computational resources or components that consist of diverse hardware and software systems (e.g., processing powers, storages, interfaces, operating systems, and programming languages) [2]. This hinders integration and interoperability of these resources. 5G and AI are two most prevailing trends in industry. Due to limited capacity of edges, embracing these two trendy technologies and exploiting them may present a challenge. …