Research Article

Leveraging Fog Computing for Scalable IoT Datacenter Using Spine-Leaf Network Topology

Table 1

Description of the physical topology for IoT FCN.

Fog Nexus Router (spine node)Cisco 7000
Fog Nexus Router (leaf node)Cisco 3000
Total ISR/switch in topology4 spine + 8 leaf (small); 4 spine + 16 leaf (medium); 8 spine + 16 leaf (small)
Fog devices11
Wi-Fi access points8
Fog C++ libraryEnabled
Path link40 GB
Multilayer virtualizationType 1
Routing typeDynamic layer-3
RedundancyActive ()