Resource Allocation using Fog-2-Cloud based Environment for Smart Buildings

In this paper, a new orchestration of Fog-2-Cloud based framework is presented for efficiently managing the resources in the residential buildings. It is a three layered framework having: cloud layer, fog layer and consumer layer. Cloud layer is responsible for the on-demand delivery of the resources. Effective resource management is done through the fog layer because it minimizes the latency and enhances the reliability of cloud facilities. Consumer layer is based on the residential users who fulfill their daily electricity demands through fog and cloud layers. Six regions are considered in the study, where, each region has a cluster of buildings varying between 80 to 150 and each building has 80 to 100 homes. Load requests of the consumers are considered fixed during every hour in the complete day. Two control parameters are considered: clusters of buildings and load requests, whereas, three performance parameters: request per hour, response time and processing time are also included. These parameters are optimized by the round robin algorithm, equally spread current execution algorithm and our proposed algorithm shortest job first. The simulation results show that our proposed technique has outperformed the previous techniques in terms of the aforementioned parameters. Tradeoff occurs in the processing time of the algorithms as compared to response time and request per hour.