Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) computing is an emerging computational platform. By combing three existing computing platform layers (i.e., cloud, fog, and IoT), F2C provides an excellent framework for managing and coordinating the various participating resources in a smart environment scenario. Efficient management of these kinds of diverse resources is one of the critical tasks in a F2C system. Also, it must be considered that different types of services are offered by any smart environmental system. So, before managing these diverse resources and providing the various types of services, it is essential to have some catalogue for knowing the characteristics of system resources that matches the different service requirements. Hence, in this paper, our main aim is to understand how resources and service-task characterization helps building a proper resource management schema in a coordinated F2C platform.

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