Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

About: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is a education organization based out in Kharagpur, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Dielectric. The organization has 16887 authors who have published 38658 publications receiving 714526 citations.

Chapter 4 – Fog Computing: principles, architectures, and applications

Abstract: The Internet of Everything (IoE) solutions gradually bring every object online, and processing data in a centralized cloud does not scale to requirements of such an environment. This is because there are applications such as health monitoring and emergency response that require low latency, so delay caused by transferring data to the cloud and then back to the application can seriously impact the performance. To this end, Fog computing has emerged, where cloud computing is extended to the edge of the network to decrease the latency and network congestion. Fog computing is a paradigm for managing a highly distributed and possibly virtualized environment that provides compute and network services between sensors and cloud data centers. This chapter provides a background and motivations regarding the emergence of Fog computing, and defines its key characteristics. In addition, a reference architecture for Fog computing is presented, and recent related development and applications are discussed.

Electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness of carbon black and carbon fibre filled EVA and NR based composites

Abstract: Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding characteristics of natural rubber and ethylene vinyl acetate filled with conductive carbon black (Vulcan XC-72) and short carbon fibre (SCF) have been studied. The measurements of shielding effectiveness (SE) were carried out in two different frequency ranges 100–2000 MHz and 8–12 GHz (X-band range). The return loss and loss due to absorption were also measured as a function of frequency in the X-band range and microwave region. It is observed that the SE of the composites is frequency dependent, especially at higher frequency range, and it increases with the increasing frequency. The SE also increases with the increase in filler loading. The SCF filled composites show higher SE compared to that of conductive carbon black. The correlation between SE and conductivity of the various composites is also discussed. The results indicate that the composites having higher fibre loading (≥20 phr) can be used for the purpose of EMI shielding, as well as for some microwave applications.