Inter-container Communication Aware Container Placement in Fog Computing

Abstract

In recent years, fog computing has increasingly become popular with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) applications characterized by strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. To deploy applications, applications are typically decomposed into services then embedded with fog nodes. However, an overlooked aspect in container placement strategies is the heterogeneous inter-container network communication technologies and their impact on application performances in fog networks. We propose and evaluate in this paper, a near optimal genetic algorithm based container placement strategy that takes into account Remote Direct Memory Access as well host and overlay mode for inter-container communication to ensure application response time requirements.