Energy-aware optimum offloading strategies in fog-cloud architectures: a Lyapunov based scheme

We introduce offloading policies for fog-cloud architectures that consider different performance parameters. We design and develop a three-tier platform, using virtualization techniques, which can be used to deploy different scenarios, with nodes having distinct features, mimicking fog and cloud cha...

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Authors: Villegas Saiz, Neco, Díez Fernández, Luis Francisco, Iglesia, Idoia de la, González Hierro, Marco, Agüero Calvo, Ramón||| 0000-0002-9620-3990
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repository:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/30113
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30113
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Fog
Cloud
Offloading
Lyapunov
Energy
Modeling
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Summary:We introduce offloading policies for fog-cloud architectures that consider different performance parameters. We design and develop a three-tier platform, using virtualization techniques, which can be used to deploy different scenarios, with nodes having distinct features, mimicking fog and cloud characteristics. We then exploit Lyapunov´s control theory to introduce offloading policies that balance energy consumption at fog nodes and monetary cost of using the cloud. The proposed scheme is able to find a trade-off between these two parameters, while ensuring system stability and so delay requirements. We compare our algorithm with baseline solutions (adapted round-robin), and the results evince that it is able to yield better performance, even under high loads and stringent energy requirements. By tweaking the algorithm operational parameters, we show that it is able to adapt its behavior to different goals, and we assess its performance under realistic configurations.