Fogology: What is (not) Fog Computing?

Cloud computing (CC) though has a great potential in providing on-demand, scalable provisioning of services with reduce management efforts and flexible pricing models has significant constraints. Firstly, CC pose a challenge in connectivity between the cloud and the end devices thereby unable to provide delay-sensitive services. Secondly, CC provider face limitations due to the imposition from the regulatory bodies to process the data at certain locations where they do not have any data centres. Thirdly, quality of CC service is compromised due to added mobility dimensions. Finally, CC is considered not a viable solution for most of the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. In this paper, author proposes a new discipline – Fogology, as a novel branch of a discipline CABology. The paper attempt to present and discuss elements of Fogology.