An Extension of the MiSCi Middleware for Smart Cities Based on Fog Computing

2019 ◽  
pp. 778-798
Author(s):  
Jose Aguilar ◽  
Manuel B. Sanchez ◽  
Marxjhony Jerez ◽  
Maribel Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Reflective Middleware ◽  
The People

In a Smart City is required computational platforms, which allow environments with multiple interconnected and embedded systems, where the technology is integrated with the people, and can respond to unpredictable situations. One of the biggest challenges in developing Smart City is how to describe and dispose of enormous and multiple sources of information, and how to share and merge it into a single infrastructure. In previous works, we have proposed an Autonomic Reflective Middleware with emerging and ubiquitous capabilities, which is based on intelligent agents that can be adapted to the existing dynamism in a city for, ubiquitously, respond to the requirements of citizens, using emerging ontologies that allow the adaptation to the context. In this work, we extend this middleware using the fog computing paradigm, to solve this problem. The fog extends the cloud to be closer to the things that produce and act on the smart city. In this paper, we present the extension to the middleware, and examples of utilization in different situations in a smart city.

An Extension of the MiSCi Middleware for Smart Cities Based on Fog Computing

Fog Computing ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Jose Aguilar ◽  
Manuel B. Sanchez ◽  
Marxjhony Jerez ◽  
Maribel Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Reflective Middleware ◽  
The People

In a Smart City is required computational platforms, which allow environments with multiple interconnected and embedded systems, where the technology is integrated with the people, and can respond to unpredictable situations. One of the biggest challenges in developing Smart City is how to describe and dispose of enormous and multiple sources of information, and how to share and merge it into a single infrastructure. In previous works, we have proposed an Autonomic Reflective Middleware with emerging and ubiquitous capabilities, which is based on intelligent agents that can be adapted to the existing dynamism in a city for, ubiquitously, respond to the requirements of citizens, using emerging ontologies that allow the adaptation to the context. In this work, we extend this middleware using the fog computing paradigm, to solve this problem. The fog extends the cloud to be closer to the things that produce and act on the smart city. In this paper, we present the extension to the middleware, and examples of utilization in different situations in a smart city.

An Extension of the MiSCi Middleware for Smart Cities Based on Fog Computing

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Aguilar ◽  
Manuel B. Sanchez ◽  
Marxjhony Jerez ◽  
Maribel Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Reflective Middleware ◽  
The People

In a Smart City is required computational platforms, which allow environments with multiple interconnected and embedded systems, where the technology is integrated with the people, and can respond to unpredictable situations. One of the biggest challenges in developing Smart City is how to describe and dispose of enormous and multiple sources of information, and how to share and merge it into a single infrastructure. In previous works, we have proposed an Autonomic Reflective Middleware with emerging and ubiquitous capabilities, which is based on intelligent agents that can be adapted to the existing dynamism in a city for, ubiquitously, respond to the requirements of citizens, using emerging ontologies that allow the adaptation to the context. In this work, we extend this middleware using the fog computing paradigm, to solve this problem. The fog extends the cloud to be closer to the things that produce and act on the smart city. In this paper, we present the extension to the middleware, and examples of utilization in different situations in a smart city.

M2FBalancer: A mist-assisted fog computing-based load balancing strategy for smart cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Subhranshu Sekhar Tripathy ◽  
Diptendu Sinha Roy ◽  
Rabindra K. Barik
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Load Transfer ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Round Robin ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Allocation Method

Nowadays, cities are intended to change to a smart city. According to recent studies, the use of data from contributors and physical objects in many cities play a key element in the transformation towards a smart city. The ‘smart city’ standard is characterized by omnipresent computing resources for the observing and critical control of such city’s framework, healthcare management, environment, transportation, and utilities. Mist computing is considered a computing prototype that performs IoT applications at the edge of the network. To maintain the Quality of Service (QoS), it is impressive to employ context-aware computing as well as fog computing simultaneously. In this article, the author implements an optimization strategy applying a dynamic resource allocation method based upon genetic algorithm and reinforcement learning in combination with a load balancing procedure. The proposed model comprises four layers i.e. IoT layer, Mist layer, Fog layer, and Cloud layer. Authors have proposed a load balancing technique called M2F balancer which regulates the traffic in the network incessantly, accumulates the information about each server load, transfer the incoming query, and disseminate them among accessible servers equally using dynamic resources allocation method. To validate the efficacy of the proposed algorithm makespan, resource utilization, and the degree of imbalance (DOI) are considered as the scheduling parameter. The proposed method is being compared with the Least count, Round Robin, and Weighted Round Robin. In the end, the results demonstrate that the solutions enhance QoS in the mist assisted cloud environment concerning maximization resource utilization and minimizing the makespan. Therefore, M2FBalancer is an effective method to utilize the resources efficiently by ensuring uninterrupted service. Consequently, it improves performance even at peak times.

Cyber Security Challenges for Smart Cities

2022 ◽  
pp. 1459-1480
Author(s):  
Anand Nayyar ◽  
Rachna Jain ◽  
Bandana Mahapatra ◽  
Anubhav Singh
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Security Models ◽  
The People ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

Smart cities are composed of interlinked components with constant data transfer and services targeted at increasing the life style of the people. The chapter focuses on diverged smart city components as well as the security models designed to be implemented. The four major paradigms discussed in this chapter are smart grids, building automation system (BAS), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and smart vehicles. Apart from addressing the security concerns of every component, the major highlights of this chapter are architecture, smart environment, industry, lifestyle, services, and digital lifestyle quality. Finally, the chapter focuses on privacy preserving mechanisms, its essence over smart cities, strong architecture related to privacy, preserving mechanism, and various approaches available that can retaliate these issues in a smart city environment.

scholarly journals Fog Computing Framework for Smart City Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Mais Haj Qasem ◽  
Alaa Abu-Srhan ◽  
Hutaf Natoureah ◽  
Esra Alzaghoul
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Network Usage ◽  
The Cost

Fog-computing is a new network architecture and computing paradigm that uses user or near-users devices (network edge) to carry out some processing tasks. Accordingly, it extends the cloud computing with more flexibility the one found in the ubiquitous networks. A smart city based on the concept of fog-computing with flexible hierarchy is proposed in this paper. The aim of the proposed design is to overcome the limitations of the previous approaches, which depends on using various network architectures, such as cloud-computing, autonomic network architecture and ubiquitous network architecture. Accordingly, the proposed approach achieves a reduction of the latency of data processing and transmission with enabled real-time applications, distribute the processing tasks over edge devices in order to reduce the cost of data processing and allow collaborative data exchange among the applications of the smart city. The design is made up of five major layers, which can be increased or merged according to the amount of data processing and transmission in each application. The involved layers are connection layer, real-time processing layer, neighborhood linking layer, main-processing layer, data server layer. A case study of a novel smart public car parking, traveling and direction advisor is implemented using IFogSim and the results showed that reduce the delay of real-time application significantly, reduce the cost and network usage compared to the cloud-computing paradigm. Moreover, the proposed approach, although, it increases the scalability and reliability of the users’ access, it does not sacrifice much time, nor cost and network usage compared to fixed fog-computing design.

scholarly journals An Anomaly Mitigation Framework for IoT Using Fog Computing

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1565
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aminu Lawal ◽  
Riaz Ahmed Shaikh ◽  
Syed Raheel Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Multiclass Classification ◽  
Attack Detection ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Ip Address ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Extreme Gradient Boosting ◽  
Boosting Algorithm

The advancement in IoT has prompted its application in areas such as smart homes, smart cities, etc., and this has aided its exponential growth. However, alongside this development, IoT networks are experiencing a rise in security challenges such as botnet attacks, which often appear as network anomalies. Similarly, providing security solutions has been challenging due to the low resources that characterize the devices in IoT networks. To overcome these challenges, the fog computing paradigm has provided an enabling environment that offers additional resources for deploying security solutions such as anomaly mitigation schemes. In this paper, we propose a hybrid anomaly mitigation framework for IoT using fog computing to ensure faster and accurate anomaly detection. The framework employs signature- and anomaly-based detection methodologies for its two modules, respectively. The signature-based module utilizes a database of attack sources (blacklisted IP addresses) to ensure faster detection when attacks are executed from the blacklisted IP address, while the anomaly-based module uses an extreme gradient boosting algorithm for accurate classification of network traffic flow into normal or abnormal. We evaluated the performance of both modules using an IoT-based dataset in terms response time for the signature-based module and accuracy in binary and multiclass classification for the anomaly-based module. The results show that the signature-based module achieves a fast attack detection of at least six times faster than the anomaly-based module in each number of instances evaluated. The anomaly-based module using the XGBoost classifier detects attacks with an accuracy of 99% and at least 97% for average recall, average precision, and average F1 score for binary and multiclass classification. Additionally, it recorded 0.05 in terms of false-positive rates.

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart Cities: A Fog Computing Framework for a Smart Urban Transport Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan-Mădălin Neagu
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
End User ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Computing Framework

Abstract In the present paper, a fog computing framework for smart urban transport is developed. The proposed framework is adapted to the smart city concept. It uses a collaborative multitude of end-user clients to carry out a substantial amount of communication and computation. It can be adapted for specific situations of smart cities in Romania, such as: Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași or Bucharest. Economic and social implications as well as available European funding sources are presented.

Desain Banyumas Smart City Berbasis Internet of Things (IoT) Menggunakan Fog Computing Architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Bayu Prastyo ◽  
Faiz Syaikhoni Aziz ◽  
Wahyu Pribadi ◽  
A.N. Afandi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traffic Lights

Internet use in Banyumas Regency is now increasingly diverse according to the demands of the needs. The development of communication technology raises various aspects that also develop. For example, the use of the internet for a traffic light control system so that it can be adjusted according to the settings and can be monitored in real time. In the development of communication technology, the term Internet of Things (IoT) emerged as the concept of extending the benefits of internet communication systems to give impulses to other systems. In other words, IoT is used as a communication for remote control and monitoring by utilizing an internet connection. The Internet of Things in the era is now being developed to create an intelligent system for the purposes of controlling various public needs until the concept of the smart city emerges. Basically, smart cities utilize internet connections for many purposes such as controlling CCTV, traffic lights, controlling arm robots in the industry and storing data in hospitals. If the system is carried out directly from the device to the central server, there will be a very long queue of data while the system created requires speed and accuracy of time so that a system is needed that allows sufficient data control and processing to be carried out on network edge users. Then fog Computing is used with the hope that the smart city system can work with small latency values ​​so that the system is more real-time in sending or receiving data.

scholarly journals The Smart City Concept for Sustainable Development of a Tourist Destination

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Marinela Krsinić Nižić ◽  
Ksenija Vodeb ◽  
Zvonimira Šverko Grdić
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The People ◽  
Touristic Development

Purpose – At a time of exceptionally fast technological advancement, smart cities have become necessary for the better management of existing resources in a tourist destination. The aim of this paper is to investigate if the smart city concept has been recognized in micro destinations in the Kvarner region for the purpose of sustainability and raising residents’ quality of life. Design/Methodology – The research has been conducted in the Kvarner tourist destination in December 2019. Citizens were asked their opinions within the scope of the following narrow tourist destinations – Lovran, Opatija and Rijeka. The questionnaire used closed-ended questions. This short research focuses on public perception regarding the smart city concept. Findings – The results show that 67% of the people living in tourist destinations are not familiar with the smart city concept. Most, however, state that its implementation would improve the touristic development of the destinations. The development of smart destinations leaves plenty of room for each community undertaking that step to define the shape and functionality of its environment while respecting the community’s historical, cultural-artistic and social heritage. Originality of the research – There are many papers dealing with the topic of smart cities, but it is rare for authors to explore the transformation of traditional tourist destinations into contemporary sustainable communities. The obtained results can be used to inform policy making towards becoming more proactive, smart and sustainable.

scholarly journals Desain Banyumas Smart City Berbasis Internet of Things (IoT) Menggunakan Fog Computing Architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Bayu Prastyo ◽  
Faiz Syaikhoni Aziz ◽  
Wahyu Pribadi ◽  
A.N. Afandi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traffic Lights

Internet use in Banyumas Regency is now increasingly diverse according to the demands of the needs. The development of communication technology raises various aspects that also develop. For example, the use of the internet for a traffic light control system so that it can be adjusted according to the settings and can be monitored in real time. In the development of communication technology, the term Internet of Things (IoT) emerged as the concept of extending the benefits of internet communication systems to give impulses to other systems. In other words, IoT is used as a communication for remote control and monitoring by utilizing an internet connection. The Internet of Things in the era is now being developed to create an intelligent system for the purposes of controlling various public needs until the concept of the smart city emerges. Basically, smart cities utilize internet connections for many purposes such as controlling CCTV, traffic lights, controlling arm robots in the industry and storing data in hospitals. If the system is carried out directly from the device to the central server, there will be a very long queue of data while the system created requires speed and accuracy of time so that a system is needed that allows sufficient data control and processing to be carried out on network edge users. Then fog Computing is used with the hope that the smart city system can work with small latency values ​​so that the system is more real-time in sending or receiving data

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