Wi d Ne e-Are two a rk TIER 1: THE CLOUD CORPORATE DATA CENTER TIER 2: " CLOUDLETS " LUGGABLE MICRO DATA CENTER VEHICULAR Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Wireless Network TIER 3: DEVICES/SENSORS (WITH SOME PROCESSING POWER) SMARTPHONES DRONES AR/VR DEVICES TIER 4: SENSORS STATIC & VEHICULAR SENSOR ARRAYS COMPETITIVE EDGE Edge computing adds bandwidth and minimizes latency and jitter by using a mesh of small but powerful mini-server and storage nodes RFID TAGS WIFI BACKSCATTER DEVICE just one or two Internet hops away from edge devices. These " cloudlets " (Tier 2) process and deliver in real time much of the data gathered and then used by those edge devices (Tiers 3 and 4). Data is passed on to the WAN, or SWALLOWABLE CAPSULE 10 cloud (Tier 1), when it isn't ROBOT INSECT needed in real time. Source: http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/DOCS/satya-hotmobile2019.pdfhttp://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/DOCS/satya-hotmobile2019.pdf