An Overview on the Applications and Security Issues of Fog Computing

Fog computing extends cloud computing paradigms to the edge of the network, enabling a new generation of applications and services. This paper mainly elaborates the related background and characteristics of fog computing, discusses the concept and hierarchical structure of fog computing services, compares the advantages of cloud computing and fog computing, analyzes the existing techniques and applications of fog computing, and analyzes possible security issues in fog computing and solutions to some of the security issues.