IoT Application Modules Placement and Dynamic Task Processing in Edge-Cloud Computing

Abstract

In today's era of Internet of Things (IoT), efficient and real-time processing of massive data generated by IoT device has become the primary issue for traditional cloud computing network architectures. As a supplement of cloud computing, edge computing enhances the real-time performance of service completion by offloading services to edge servers closer to the terminal device for execution, while reducing power consumption and computing load in the cloud. In this article, we propose the following solutions to resolve the different requests of the IoT device: in an “edge-cloud” heterogeneous network environment, create a mapping scheme between application modules and basic resource equipment, considering the two factors of tolerant task latency and system power consumption. In the application step-by-step execution process, heuristic dynamic task processing algorithm is used to reduce the task latency time. Experiments with the “iFogSim” simulator show that, application service quality is significantly improved and system power consumption is greatly reduced, which compared with the stable application module placement strategy and the static task scheduling strategy.