Читать книгу Fog Computing - Группа авторов - Страница 22

UE represents the end-users' terminal devices (e.g. smartphones) that are connecting to an Internet Service Provider (ISP)'s network. Initially, UEs are thin clients in the IoT ecosystem. However, recent research efforts have utilized UEs as one of the major service provisioning elements. Accordingly, the following use cases illustrate the usefulness of fog-integrated UEs (Figure 1.4).