An Overloading State Computation and Load Sharing Mechanism in Fog Computing

Abstract

Fog computing is used to enrich the ability of cloud computing applications. Fog is a kind of buffer area placed between the data processing location and the data storage equipment in the network and plays a significant role in processing the real time data. The lack of resource provisioning approaches and high demand for IoT services make the fog node overloaded. Load balancing is a method to realize efficient resource utilization to avoid bottlenecks, overload, and fog node failure. This study suggests a concept to compute the probabilistic overloading state of a fog node and identification of fog node for load sharing. Each fog node computes Fstate and sends the message at regular intervals to the fog node coordinator (FNC). FNC maintains a fog that is utilized for offloading in case of fog overloading. A comparative study shows that the proposed model avoids an overloading state by the transfer of a certain number of requests to an underloaded fog node before actual overloading occurs. Numerical results validate theoretical investigation and efficiency of the proposed study.