Assessment of Fog Enabled Sensor Cloud Platform for Smart Logistics Park

Abstract

This paper is a comparative study on the performance of the fog-enabled sensor cloud (FSC) and traditional cloud computing and fog computing modes in a smart logistics park. Based on our previous work, we describe the physical sensor virtualization scheme and framework of the proposed FSC, construct the network model, and mathematically describe the parameters of the FSC. To assess the performance of the proposed platform, we take a large logistics enterprise in China as an example and illustrate the network setup of the proposed platform in a real logistics scenario. The experiment proves that the FSC for smart logistics parks has a practical advantage over the traditional cloud computing and fog computing modes in terms of bandwidth consumption and service latency.