Peering Through the Fog: An Inter-fog Communication Approach for Computing Environment

The advent of cloud computing has brought forth a wave of IoT devices and the number of devices connected to the cloud has been growing expeditiously. With this increase in demand, there is an imminent need for a more efficient solution for managing the IoT devices-Fog computing. Fog computing brings the concept of cloud computing closer to the edge of the network. These fog devices may be interconnected across, in addition to a hierarchical connection. In this paper, we discuss the advantage of installing this auxiliary connection, i.e., linking of adjacent fog nodes at the same level. We have proposed an architecture that would provide a low latency alternative to traditional fog network connection. An algorithm is defined to support the proposed architecture which is further stimulated by the case of a parking scenario. The experiment is conducted, and the results have proved that our proposed architecture shows lower latency as compared to the traditional fog architecture.