Cloud-Edge Centric Service Provisioning in Smart City Using Internet of Things

Three highly discussed and researched computing technologies in recent times are cloud computing, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In cloud computing, service seekers request computing resources from cloud servers connected over the Internet. In edge computing, the edge devices are placed between the cloud server and service seekers resulting in faster access to the computing resources and hence reducing the computational time and cost. Internet of Things is a technology where several devices are connected and communicate with each other over the Internet. In this paper, we try to integrate these three technologies and propose a cloud-edge centric Internet of Things architecture for service provisioning in a smart city. The integration of these technologies improves the overall performance of the smart city system by efficiently utilizing the computing resources resulting in reduced makespan, response time, and implementation cost, increased throughput, and better security of data.