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Contributions To Edge Computing, Vernon K. Bumgardner
Contributions To Edge Computing, Vernon K. Bumgardner
Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science
Efforts related to Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Machine to Machine (M2M) technologies, Industrial Internet, and Smart Cities aim to improve society through the coordination of distributed devices and analysis of resulting data. By the year 2020 there will be an estimated 50 billion network connected devices globally and 43 trillion gigabytes of electronic data. Current practices of moving data directly from end-devices to remote and potentially distant cloud computing services will not be sufficient to manage future device and data growth.
Edge Computing is the migration of computational functionality to sources of data generation. The importance of …