An Ant-colony Based Model for Load Balancing in Fog Environments

Abstract

Delay-sensitive applications are becoming more and more in demand as a result of the development of information systems and the expansion of communication in cloud computing technologies. Some of these requests will be overlooked in cloud environments due to the communication delay between the processing center and the client’s request. The ‘fog-based computing paradigm’, a novel processing model, can be added to cloud computing to help with the aforementioned issues. The performance of computing systems is always influenced by latency. In this paper, we focus on balancing the load on the fog nodes to lower the latency. It is also a crucial component of fog computing devices. It necessitates the use of load-balancing algorithms to select the optimal hosts, resulting in an even distribution of the load on the available resources.We provide a load-balancing approach based on the Ant-colony optimization algorithm’s latency rate for responding to tasks. A random data set evaluation of this model reveals shorter response times than those of earlier strategies suggested in this field.