Uma arquitetura de Edge-Fog-Cloud para conciliar interoperabilidade e redução de dados focada em e-health

Abstract

With the need to reduce costs and improve care, the healthcare sector started to employ the concept called e-Health. e-Health refers to the use of Information Technologies, with the help of the Internet, to support healthcare processes and provide services. These technologies include interoperability, data reduction and Edge-Fog-Cloud architectures. Interoperability gives applications the ability to share data, increasing the scope of information they have access to. Edge-Fog-Cloud architectures provide several services and products that facilitate the deployment, management and operation of applications and structures. Although these technologies provide several benefits, their use is not without its challenges. One of these challenges is the increase in data storage and transmission costs. Data reduction techniques are one of the solutions to reduce these costs. They use several procedures to reduce the size of data generated by applications. However, the use of interoperability in conjunction with data reduction techniques leads to problems that make their reconciliation difficult. This master’s thesis addressed the challenges of employing interoperability in parallel with data reduction in Edge-Fog-Cloud computing, with a focus on e-Health. This project presents an Edge-Fog-Cloud architecture that offers functionality as a service, to ensure interoperability and data reduction. The proposal uses ontologies to verify syntactic interoperability and reduce data. To evaluate the proposal, context simulations will be used. In the simulation results, the proposal managed to increase data flow on the network and reduce data size, without interfering with data sharing between applications.