Efficient Solution for Load Balancing in Fog Computing Utilizing Artificial Bee Colony

Abstract

Fog computing is a set of mobile cloudlets which can fulfil the demand of the user who is already considered a mobile job in this architecture. The main aim of Fog computing is to provide the user with an optimal solution which is quick and cost-efficient. This article focuses on a load balancing mechanism for cloudlets along with keeping the cost-effectiveness as an optimal selection parameter. This article utilizes the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) in order to prioritize the user demand using a fitness function. This work evaluates quality of service (QoS) parameters such as schedule length runtime (SLR), schedule length vm ratio (SLVMR), energy consumed (EC) and energy consumption ratio (ECR) and shows the effectiveness of proposed work.