Current applications requirements are always more demanding, especially in terms of network latency. Just think about self-driving cars, VR/AR or Industry 4.0. The classic Cloud computing approach cannot satisfy this fundamental capability due to the network distance of the datacenters from the devices. But what if we could move these datacenters nearer? Obviously we cannot, but we can gather small servers together in a geographic domain for drastically reducing communication latencies. Today, with single board PCs (e.g. Raspberry Pi) we can easily construct clusters of Fog nodes and offload there the computation. Fog Computing is a term which comprehends all of this kind of computation, Edge Computing is very similar but emphasizes more the idea of the computation moved to the Edge network (e.g. routers or antennas).

At the lab we study distributed algorithms, resource sharing strategies and scheduling policies which best fit this new kind of computing paradigm. We have expertise in the mathematical modeling of the problem as well as modern in tecnologies like Docker and Kubernetes.