Evolutionary Algorithms to Optimize Task Scheduling Problem for the IoT Based Bag-of-Tasks Application in Cloud–Fog Computing Environment

Abstract

In recent years, constant developments in Internet of Things (IoT) generate large amounts of data, which put pressure on Cloud computing’s infrastructure. The proposed Fog computing architecture is considered the next generation of Cloud Computing for meeting the requirements posed by the device network of IoT. One of the obstacles of Fog Computing is distribution of computing resources to minimize completion time and operating cost. The following study introduces a new approach to optimize task scheduling problem for Bag-of-Tasks applications in Cloud–Fog environment in terms of execution time and operating costs. The proposed algorithm named TCaS was tested on 11 datasets varying in size. The experimental results show an improvement of 15.11% compared to the Bee Life Algorithm (BLA) and 11.04% compared to Modified Particle Swarm Optimization (MPSO), while achieving balance between completing time and operating cost.