Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges

@article{Shi2016EdgeCV,
  title={Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges},
  author={Weisong Shi and Jie Cao and Quan Zhang and Youhuizi Li and Lanyu Xu},
  journal={IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={3},
  pages={637-646}
}
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) and the success of rich cloud services have pushed the horizon of a new computing paradigm, edge computing, which calls for processing the data at the edge of the network. [] Key Result Finally, we present several challenges and opportunities in the field of edge computing, and hope this paper will gain attention from the community and inspire more research in this direction.
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