The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is a reality now.
Computers and Society
However, enabling learning from distributed data over such edge Internet of Things (IoT) systems (e. g., mobile-health and wearable technologies, involving sensitive personal/medical data) in a privacy-preserving fashion presents a major challenge mainly due to their stringent resource constraints, i. e., limited computing capacity, communication bandwidth, memory storage, and battery lifetime.
The emerging trend of edge computing has led several cloud providers to release their own platforms for performing computation at the 'edge' of the network.
Networking and Internet Architecture Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Our results show that for data-intensive functions, data transfer and state management costs contribute to up to 75% of the costs in AWS and 52% in GCP.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing