MTFCT: A task offloading approach for fog computing and cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is an important computing paradigm for handling all types of computations, even the smaller ones in the past. But sometimes, it becomes ineffective when the task is to be done in real-time, with very low latency. Therefore, fog computing was introduced as a supplement computing paradigm for cloud computing. Internet of Things based applications perform better with the amalgamation of its and the fog computing. Due to low capacity, when fog can't compute the task on its own, heavy computations are offloaded from fog to cloud. But when to offload the task from fog to cloud is a major decision. The decision is to be made out to offload the tasks from fog to cloud is very crucial, so this paper presents an idea to solve this problem. © 2020 IEEE.