Fog Computing

A greater community of researchers widely studies fog computing as it reduces the massive data flow to the existing cloud-connected network and performs better for real-time systems that expect a quick response. As the fog layer plays a significant role in a fog-cloud system, all of the devices participating in fog computing must be balanced with appropriate load to upstretched the system performance. The proposed method is founded on a tree-based dynamic resources arrangement mechanism that refreshes the fog clusters created using Fuzzy C Mean (FCM) to increase the speed of resource allocation. With the help of Fuzzy rule-based load calculation and intra-cluster job allocation, the load inside the group is maintained. The system also has the facility of inter-cluster job forwarding, which works on demand. A novel load balancing strategy, Real-Time Flexi Forwarded Cluster Refreshing System (RTFRS) is proposed by which all the tasks can be handled efficiently within the fog cloud system. The proposed system is designed so that overall complexity is not upraised and becomes suitable for fog computing architecture with low processing capacity by maintaining the quality of service. Experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms standard methods and algorithms used in fog computing concerning average turnaround time, average waiting time, resource utilization, average failure rate, and the load on the gateway.

Fog computing is considered a promising solution to minimize processing and networking demands of the Internet of things (IoT) devices. In this work, a model based on the energy consumption evaluation criteria is provided to address the deployment issue in fog computing. Numerous factors, including processing loads, communication protocols, the distance between each connection of fog nodes, and the amount of traffic that is exchanged, all have an impact on the re-search system's overall energy consumption. The power consumption for implementing each com-ponent on the fog node as well as the power consumption for information exchange between the fog nodes are taken into account when calculating each fog node's energy use. Each fog node's energy consumption is closely correlated to how its resources are used, and as a result, to the average normalized resource utilization of a fog node. When the dependent components are spread across two distinct fog nodes, the transfer energy is taken into account in the computations. The sum of the energy used for transmission and the energy used for computational resources is the entire amount of energy consumed by a fog node. The goal is to reduce the energy consumption of the fog network while deploying components using a novel metaheuristic method.  Therefore, this work presents an enhanced water strider algorithm (EWSA) to address the problem of deploying application components with minimum energy consumption. Simulation experiments with two scenarios have been conducted based on the proposed EWSA algorithm. The results show that the EWSA algorithm achieved better performance with 0.01364 and 0.01004 optimal energy consumption rates.