ACT on Monte Carlo FogRA for Time-Critical Applications of IoT

Abstract

The need for instantaneous processing for Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the notion of fog computing where computation is performed at the proximity of the data source. Though fog computing reduces the latency and bandwidth bottlenecks, the scarcity of fog nodes hampers its efficiency. Also, due to the heterogeneity and stochastic behavior of IoT, traditional resource allocation technique does not suffice the timesensitiveness of the applications. Therefore, adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Reinforcement Learning approach that has the ability to self-learn and adapt to the dynamic environment is sought. The purpose of the work is to propose an Auto Centric Threshold (ACT) enabled Monte Carlo FogRA system that maximizes the utilization of Fog's limited resources with minimum termination time for time-critical IoT requests. FogRA is devised as a Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem, that obtains optimal solutions through continuous interaction with the uncertain environment. Experimental results show that the optimal value achieved by the proposed system is increased by 41% more than the baseline adaptive RA model. The efficiency of FogRA is evaluated under different performance metrics.