The fourth industrial revolution heralds a paradigm shift in how people, processes,\nthings, data and networks communicate and connect with each other. Conventional computing\ninfrastructures are struggling to satisfy dramatic growth in demand from a deluge of connected\nheterogeneous end points located at the edge of networks while, at the same time, meeting quality\nof service levels. The complexity of computing at the edge makes it increasingly difficult for\ninfrastructure providers to plan for and provision resources to meet this demand. While simulation\nframeworks are used extensively in the modelling of cloud computing environments in order to test\nand validate technical solutions, they are at a nascent stage of development and adoption for fog and\nedge computing. This paper provides an overview of challenges posed by fog and edge computing\nin relation to simulation.
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