Ubiquitous computing

Human–computer interaction

Operating system

Cloud computing security

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Computer science

Cloud computing

Telecommunications

Utility computing

Distributed computing

Salient

Edge device

Artificial intelligence

Edge computing

Computer security

Software deployment

Software engineering

Data science

Internet of Things

Key (lock)

Computer network

IEEE Communications Magazine

Remarkable advancements in embedded systems-on-a-chip have significantly increased the number of commercial devices that possess sufficient resources to run full-fledged operating systems. This change has extended the potential of the IoT. Many early IoT devices could only collect and send data for analysis. However, the increasing computing capacity of today's devices allow them to perform complex computations on-site, resulting in edge computing. Edge computing extends cloud computing capabilities by bringing services close to the edge of a network and thus supports a new variety of services and applications. In this work, we investigate, highlight, and report on recent advances in edge computing technologies with respect to measuring their impact on IoT. We establish a taxonomy of edge computing by classifying and categorizing existing literature, and by doing so, we reveal the salient and supportive features of different edge computing paradigms for IoT. Moreover, we present the key requirements for the s...

The Role of Edge Computing in Internet of Things