All one needs to know about fog computing and related edge computing paradigms: A complete survey
Ashkan Yousefpour,Caleb Fung,Tam T. Nguyen,Krishna P. Kadiyala,Fatemeh Jalali,Amirreza Niakanlahiji,Jian Kong,Jason P. Jue +7 more
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Figure 8: Taxonomy of fog computing that is used in this survey. 
Figure 1: The structure of the survey. 
Figure 5: Fog brings several benefits for the application developers, applications, and different industries by distributing the core functions. 
Table 2: Attributes of fog-computing related paradigms 
Figure 2: Common cloud service models and their classifications relative what portion of the application stack is managed by cloud providers. 
Table 7: Summary of challenges and future research directions
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