QoS aware productive and resourceful service allocation in fog for multimedia applications

Fog computing is a computer architecture consisting of fog nodes, a collection of near-user edge devices. These fog nodes collaborate to perform computational services like data retrieval, processing, storage, etc. Resource allocation is one of the most critical and challenging problems in the fog environment for industrial applications. The significant aspects to consider while allocating resources are response time, throughput, and energy consumption. The proposed work formulated the resource allocation problem as a bi-objective minimization problem. The main aim of the work is to reduce energy consumption and makespan while allocating service requests to virtual machines. The proposed technique uses the league championship algorithm to select an efficient resource for productive and resourceful service allocation of tasks in fog computing. The proposed algorithm's performance is assessed by comparing it to three well-known metaheuristic algorithms. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior in terms of makespan and energy consumption.