Collaborative Mechanism for Hybrid Fog-Cloud Scenarios

This chapter first introduces the collaborative scenario paying special attention to the architectural models as well as to the challenges posed when considering the fog–cloud collaborative model enriched with new strategies such as innovative resource sharing. It then presents fog‐to‐cloud (F2C), as one of the proposed architectural contributions in this hybrid scenario, showing its main benefits in different verticals, also emphasizing some open questions remaining unsolved yet. The chapter next describes main F2C challenges (could be also applied to any F2C‐like architecture), split into three domains, research, industry, and business, in order to illustrate what the issues are on a large view for a successful deployment. It also addresses the insights of the data management in the Internet of Things‐fog‐cloud scenario, emphasizing challenges, as well as the benefits an F2C‐like architecture may bring to sort them out.