A Cloud-Fog Based Architecture for IoT Applications Dedicated to Healthcare

Abstract

Cloud-Fog computing architectures are new paradigms designed to add advantages to the existing architectures for Internet of Things (IoT). This paper proposes an inter-operable cloud-fog based IoT architecture for healthcare. It describes its architecture, environmental context, and user context. The proposed architecture supports the mobility of the patients as well as the diversity of the medical cases. The features of the individual modules are discussed and the interconnection between the different underlying modules and tiers is explained. Task scheduling and allocation approach is proposed to effectively balance healthcare tasks distribution. The performance evaluation of the proposed approach is presented with different number of tasks and cloud nodes. The simulation results show acceptable results in terms of miss ratio, cost, and latency.