A Survey on Load Balancing Techniques in Fog Computing

Abstract

Fog Computing has developed as a domain that gives an adequate platform for computing, networking and storage to promote innovative development. The foremost goal of fog computing is to minimize load of different jobs requests on the cloud due to an excessive amount of Internet of Things (IoT) nodes and devices raised within the last decade. The load balancing on the Fog-IoT network environment is an auspicious problem in fog computing frameworks that can reduce latency, energy and bandwidth consumption. In this article, the analysis is done on load balancing techniques implemented by several authors in Fog-IoT computing to discover deficiencies for the further enhancement of overall frameworks. The research gaps and future directions are also addressed, so the researchers can quickly decide the process to do the future investigation.