Resource Management in Fog/Edge Computing: A Survey on Architectures, Infrastructure, and Algorithms

Contrary to using distant and centralized cloud data center resources, employing decentralized resources at the edge of a network for processing data closer to user devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is an upcoming computing paradigm, referred to as fog/edge computing. Fog/edge resources are typically resource constrained, heterogeneous, and dynamic compared to the cloud, thereby making resource management an important challenge that needs to be addressed. This article reviews publications as early as 1991, with 85% of the publications between 2013–2018, to identify and classify the architectures, infrastructure, and underlying
algorithms for managing resources in fog/edge computing.