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What is Edge Computing

Emerging Trends in Cloud Computing Analytics, Scalability, and Service Models
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed.
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Cloud Analytics: Introduction, Tools, Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends
Hari Kishan Kondaveeti (VIT-AP University, India), Biswajit Biswal (South Carolina State University, USA), Licia Saikia (VIT-AP University, India), Udithaa Terala (VIT-AP University, India), Sateesh Gorikapudi (VIT-AP University, India), and Valli Kumari Vatsavayi (Andhra University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0900-1.ch013
Abstract
Cloud analytics is the process of using cloud computing resources and technologies to analyze and gain insights from large and complex data. Cloud analytics has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its scalability, cost-efficiency, and accessibility. It enables organizations to process large datasets, perform complex analytics, and make data-driven decisions more effectively and affordably. This book chapter provides a comprehensive overview of cloud analytics, covering its fundamental principles, significance in today's data-driven landscape, benefits and challenges of adoption, critical tools and technologies, data management in cloud environments, and promising future directions and emerging trends. By the end of this chapter, readers will have a deep understanding of cloud analytics and its potential to revolutionize the way organizations analyze and leverage data.
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Machine Learning-Enabled Internet of Things Solution for Smart Agriculture Operations
A networking focused on bringing computing as close to the source of data as possible to reduce latency and bandwidth use.
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Fog Computing in Industrial Internet of Things
A computing environment that fills gap between data storage and computation location.
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What Is Cloud Computing?
Is referring to the infrastructure that is present close to the original source of data and edge is develop for the solution to an enterprise environment. The edge technique is far away from the centralized cloud structure because of this data lost is very much less in this environment.
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Dynamic Cache Management of Cloud RAN and Multi-Access Edge Computing for 5G Networks
Instead of retrieving data from Internet, data can be accessed from nearby sources to improve users experience.
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Emerging Technologies to Increase Energy Efficiency and Decrease Indoor Pollution in University Campuses
A distributed computing paradigm that brings computation capabilities closer to the data source to improve response times and save bandwidth. It is used to process time-sensitive data and it is preferred over Cloud Computing in remote locations, where there is limited or no connectivity to a centralized location.
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Privacy in Cloud-Based Computing
An architectural CbC approach where part of the processing is carried out within the end-users’ premises.
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Opportunistic Edge Computing Architecture for Smart Healthcare Systems
It is a distributed computing paradigm which brings computation and data storage closer to the needed location and near to the users, in order to improve response times, bandwidth consumptions.
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Digital Education and Its Changing Concepts and Scenario for New Age Teaching and Learning Models: Techno-Educational Context
Edge Computing is latest addition in Information Technology, and there are certain areas of education including research where Edge Computing is effectively useful. And it can help in both onsite and online activities. Edge systems is dedicated in more digital information management system development.
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Plant Disease Classification Using Deep Learning Techniques
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed.
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Emerging Technology and Today's Libraries
The deployment of data-handling activities or other networks away from centralized and connected segments.
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The Pivotal Role of Edge Computing With Machine Learning and Its Impact on Healthcare
Due to long distance causes number of risks factors. It may cause bandwidth congestion and network latency. To concern these things, foremost all healthcare organizations moves forward to edge computing, which analyze the data and send it to the nearby system situated at cloud.
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Advancing Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things
It is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed, to improve response times and save bandwidth.
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Achieving Ambient Intelligence in Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Fog Computing-Driven IoT
It is a distributed computing model which has brought computation nearer to the application layer nodes for enhancing the response time.
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Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Things
It is the distributed computer paradigm that brings up the data storage and the computation closer the place where the data is being generated.
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An Effectiveness Modelling Approach for IoT-Based Smart Grids
Which is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed to improve response times and save bandwidth.
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A Hybrid Computational Intelligence Algorithm to Transform Traditional IPC Into a Smart Camera
A networking and computing method to perform analytics and computation at the place of data generation to reduce latency.
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Serverless Computing Real-World Applications and Benefits in Cloud Environments
A distributed computing paradigm that brings computational processes closer to the data source or endpoint devices, reducing latency and enhancing real-time data processing. Unlike traditional cloud computing, which centralizes data processing in remote data centers, edge computing shifts computational tasks to the edge of the network, near the data-producing devices. This approach improves response times, bandwidth efficiency, and supports applications requiring low-latency interactions, such as IoT devices, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. Edge computing enables faster decision-making and more efficient utilization of network resources by processing data locally or in nearby edge servers, enhancing the overall performance and responsiveness of distributed systems.
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IoT-Based Health Risk Prediction by Collecting and Analyzing HIIT Data in Real Time Using Edge Computing
Edge computing is a paradigm where data processing and storage are brought closer to data sources. This should increase response times while saving bandwidth.
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IoT to Support Active Learning in Engineering Education: Test Cases and Lessons Learned
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm in which the computing resources are located closer to the place where those resources are needed and used.
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Digital Transformation and Business Evolution in China: Opportunities and Challenges
A distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data, aiming to reduce latency and bandwidth use, thereby optimizing the speed at which data is processed.
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Principles and Enabling Technologies of 5G Network Slicing
Highly distributed computing environment that can be used to deploy services and applications, as well as storage and processing resources in close proximity to the mobile users.
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Introduction to Ambient Intelligence in Internet of Things Environments and Cyber-Physical Systems
A distributed computing paradigm that largely or completely based on computations performed on a set distributed device (smart devices or edge devices) as opposed to computations run on a centralized cloud in core network.
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Edge Computing Empowering Distributed Computing at the Edge
Edge computing refers to the paradigm of processing data near the source of data generation, often at the periphery of the network or close to the devices producing the data. This approach reduces latency, bandwidth usage, and dependence on centralized cloud resources, enabling faster and more efficient data processing.
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Recent and Emerging Technologies in Industrial IoT
Edge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible.
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Development Trends of Digital Infrastructure
A form of distributed computing where computations and data storage are close to the locations where they are needed.
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