A new method for task scheduling in fog‐based medical healthcare systems using a hybrid nature‐inspired algorithm

Abstract

SummaryThe goal of the healthcare system is to offer a dependable and well‐organized solution for improving human's wellbeing. Examining a patient's history can assist clinicians in considering the patient's wants when building a healthcare system and providing service, resulting in increased patient satisfaction. Thus, healthcare is becoming a more competitive sector. Massive data volume, latency, response time, and security susceptibility are all difficulties resulting from this substantial increase in healthcare systems. As a famous distributed structure, fog computing might thus aid in the resolution of such problems. Processing parts are situated among end devices and cloud components in a fog computing infrastructure and run programs. This design is well suited to real‐time and low‐latency applications, like healthcare systems. Because task scheduling is an NP‐hard optimization issue in fog‐based medical healthcare systems, this work proposes a hybrid genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization (GA‐PSO) strategy. A powerful single‐objective optimization technique is the GA‐PSO. Individuals in a novel generation are formed in GA‐PSO through mutation and crossover operations in GA‐PSO, which uses a redefined local optimization swarm. Hence, it may avoid local minimums and perform well in global searches. The study's goal in fog‐based medical healthcare systems is to lower the makespan and overall response time. The suggested technique is simulated in MATLAB and compared to the GA and PSO methods. The empirical findings confirmed the improved makespan, making the approach appropriate for medical and real‐time systems applications.