Edge Computing Unveiled: A Deep Dive into Latest Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities

In this digital age, as Internet of Things (IoT) evolves, many mobile and stationary electronics are connected to provide real-time applications. However, the paradigm of cloud computing is bundled with several limitations such as high latency, high migration costs, restricted communication type adaptability and lack of location awareness and mobility support to handle the real time applications. Hence, alternative computing paradigms have been devised to tackle these problems. Among these computing paradigms, edge computing has become prevalent model to handle aforementioned limitations in these days of pervasive computing and IoT. Therefore, this study showcases the latest advancements in edge computing research and development with relevant use cases and benefits of integrating latest technologies with edge. Also, the study emphasizes on edge architecture - highlighting the roles and responsibilities of edge components, its importance, types of edge computing with relevant use cases and latest research directions. This makes the survey work different from other works by furnishing the latest research roadmap for engineers and researchers.