Mays Al-Naday
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK
Digital transformation (DX) is promising to revolutionise human environments by integrating technologies into various operations for monitoring and actuation. This is sketching a new landscape of scenarios with novel requirements for compute proximity & storage locality. Fog computing, an extended form of cloud computing closer to end-users, is one of the key enablers of DX. However, the heterogeneity and dispersion of fog resources introduces new challenges for resource management.
In this seminar, I will review the principles of fog computing and how it is contributing to enablement of distributed applications for DX. The seminar will highlight some of the challenges facing the deployment of DX applications/service over fog networks, outline example approaches to modelling fog networks along with an example of a prominent resource management problem associated with fog networks and how we solve them. In the last part of the seminar, I will review more generally the research and academic portfolio of the communications and networks group (Comnet) at the University of Essex, in other areas of fog computing, cybersecurity and general networking.