Fog-Based Data Distribution Service (F-DAD) for Internet of Things (IoT) applications

With advances in technology, devices, machines, and appliances get smarter, more capable and connected to each other. This defines a new era called Internet of Things (IoT), consisting of a huge number of connected devices producing and consuming large amounts of data that may be needed by multiple IoT applications. At the same time, cloud computing and its extension to the network edge, fog computing, become an important way of storing and processing large amounts of data. Then, an important issue is how to transport, place, store, and process this huge amount of IoT data in an efficient and effective manner.