A Game-Based Approach for Cost-Aware Task Assignment With QoS Constraint in Collaborative Edge and Cloud Environments

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 32; no. 7; pp. 1629 - 1640
• Main Authors: Long, Saiqin, Long, Weifan, Li, Zhetao, Li, Kenli, Xia, Yuanqing, Tang, Zhuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.07.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Cloud computing; Collaboration; Computer centers; Data analysis; Data centers; Data collection; Energy consumption; Game theory; Games; Greedy algorithms; Internet of Things; Microprocessors; mutliple agent system; Nodes; QoS constraint; Quality of service; queueing system; Search algorithms; Servers; Task analysis

With the development of the Internet of Things, the data that needs to be processed is increasing rapidly. Therefore, the collaboration of cloud and edge emerges as the times require. Edge nodes are mainly responsible for collecting data, and decide to process the data locally or offload to cloud da...