Fulcrum Coding Performance on Fog Computing Architecture

The proposed architecture defines an adaptation of the Fulcrum coding system towards a Fog computing architecture. The distributed coding scheme allows the adjustment of the coding density according to the complexity of each communication device in the network, enabling the system to concentrate the system's performance to those that would allow for a high complexity in the coding if it significantly affects the delay network. These changes enable eliminating redundant information in the network, thus shortening the system delay. Additionally, thanks to Fulcrum coding defining a code concatenation based on RLNC coding, it allows the system to control the coding parameters from the application layer directly. The proposed architecture is an extension of the IoT-Cloud scheme, which allows establishing distributed performance, whose efficiency is controlled by a Fog-RLNC server and a series of Microcasting-type services.