Fog Computing : Architecture and Security aspects

Abstract: As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are used daily is increasing, the inadequacy of cloud computing to provide neseccary IoT-related features, such as low latency, geographic distribution and location awareness, is becoming more evident. Fog computing is introduced as a new computing paradigm, in order to solve this problem by extending the cloud‟s storage and computing resources to the network edge. However, the introduction of this new paradigm is also confronted by various security threats and challenges since the security practices that are implemented in cloud computing cannot be applied directly to this new architecture paradigm. To this end, various papers have been published in the context of fog computing security, in an effort to establish the best security practices towards the standardization of fog computing. In this thesis, we perform a systematic literature review of current research in order to provide with a classification of the various security threats and challenges in fog computing. Furthermore, we present the solutions that have been proposed so far and which security challenge do they address. Finally, we attempt to distinguish common aspects between the various proposals, evaluate current research on the subject and suggest directions for future research.