Title: Optimised fuzzy clustering-based resource scheduling and dynamic load balancing algorithm for fog computing environment

Authors: Bikash Sarma; R. Kumar; Themrichon Tuithung

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Nagaland, Chumukeidma, Dimapur, India ' Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, National Institute of Technology Nagaland, Chumukeidma, Dimapur, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Nagaland, Chumukeidma, Dimapur, India

Abstract: An influential and standard tool, fog computing performs applications of internet of things (IoT) and it is the cloud computing's extended version. In the network of edge computing, the applications of IoT are possibly implemented by fog computing which is an emerging technology. Load on cloud is minimised with proper resource allocation using fog computing methods. Throughput maximisation, available resources optimisation, response time reduction, and elimination of overloaded single resource are the goal of load balancing algorithm. This paper suggests an optimised fuzzy clustering-based resource scheduling and dynamic load balancing (OFCRS-DLB) procedure for resource scheduling and load balancing in fog computing. For resource scheduling, this paper recommends an enhanced form of fast fuzzy C-means (FFCM) with crow search optimisation (CSO) algorithm in fog computing. Finally, the load balancing is done using scalability decision technique. The proficiency of the recommended technique is obtained by comparing with other evolutionary methods.

Keywords: fog computing; fast fuzzy C-means clustering; crow search optimisation algorithm; scalability decision for load balancing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2021.117015

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2021 Vol.24 No.4, pp.343 - 353

Received: 11 Dec 2019
Accepted: 11 May 2020
Published online: 12 Aug 2021 *

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