FIoT: A QoS-Aware Fog-IoT Framework to Minimize Latency in IoT Applications via Fog Offloading

Abstract

The impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) in our daily life is rising in recent days. The automated IoT devices possess some advantages like low communication costs, minimizes human effort, and efficient resource allocation. However, reducing the latency in the data transmission between IoT devices and the storage data centers like the cloud is still a challenge. To diminish the latency for IoT applications, we propose a Fog-IoT collaborative framework (FIoT) with an offloading strategy. We further developed an analytical model for evaluating the performance of FIoT. The analytical results prove that our FIoT framework minimizes the service delays and thereby enhancing the Quality of Service (QoS) in IoT applications.