On the Fog-Cloud Cooperation: How Fog Computing can address latency concerns of IoT applications
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fog computing emerged as a new computing paradigm which moves the computing power to the proximity of users, from core to the edge of the network. It is known as the extension of Cloud computing and it offers inordinate opportunities for real-time and latency-sensitive IoT applications. An IoT application consists of a set of dependent Processing Elements (PEs) defined as operations performed on data streams and can be modeled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Each PE performs a variety of low-level computation on the incoming data such as aggregation or filtering. A key challenge is to decide how to distribute such PEs over the resources, in order to minimize the overall response time of the entire PE graph. This problem is known as distributed PE scheduling and placement problem. In this work, we try to address the question of how fog computing paradigm can help reducing the IoT application response time by efficiently distributing PE graphs over the Fog-Cloud continuum. We mathematically formulate the fundamental characteristics of IoT application and Fog infrastructure, then model the system as an optimization problem using Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) meta-heuristic technique. Our proposed GSA model is evaluated by comparing it with a well-known evolutionary algorithm in the literature via simulation. Also, a comparative analysis with the legacy cloud infrastructure is done in order to show the significant impact of fog presence on the performance of PE processing. Evaluation of our model demonstrates the efficiency of our approach comparing to the current literature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".