Mobile service selection in edge and cloud computing environment with grey wolf algorithm

The proliferation of mobile devices has resulted in the tremendous development of edge computing. A common mechanism is that once the requests from the users are too complex to be afforded by a single service, then edge computing services ought to step in. Nevertheless, services on edge servers are most commonly resource-constrained and unstable. To this end, we propose a novel solution for the mobile service selection problem with edge and cloud computing. An extended grey wolf algorithm is presented; specifically, crossover operator and roulette wheel are applied in reproduction and selection operations. Comparative experiments are implemented between our approach and other nature-inspired algorithms to verify the effectiveness and efficiency, which demonstrate our method may find a solution with better QoS values.