Scalable Fog Computing with Service Offloading in Bus Networks

Abstract

With the rapid increase of mobile devices, the computing load of roadside cloudlets is fast growing. When the computation tasks of the roadside cloudlet reach the limit, the overload may generate heat radiation problem and unacceptable delay to mobile users. In this paper, we leverage the characteristics of buses and propose a scalable fog computing paradigm with servicing offloading in bus networks. The bus fog servers not only provide fog computing services for the mobile users on bus, but also are motivated to accomplish the computation tasks offloaded by roadside cloudlets. By this way, the computing capability of roadside cloudlets is significantly extended. We consider an allocation strategy using genetic algorithm (GA). With this strategy, the roadside cloudlets spend the least cost to offload their computation tasks. Meanwhile, the user experience of mobile users are maintained. The simulations validate the advantage of the propose scheme.