A joint energy and resource aware task mapping in fog assisted cloud ecosystems
摘要
The increasing demand of latency-sensitive IoT applications necessitates efficient task mapping in decentralized Fog–Cloud environments. This paper presents Joint Energy-and-Resource–aware Optimization (JointERO), a heuristic-based framework for the Task Mapping Problem (TMP) that jointly minimizes makespan, energy consumption, and resource wastage under heterogeneous Fog–Cloud infrastructures. JointERO employs a two-stage strategy that prioritizes energy-efficient nodes and performs resource-wastage-aware task assignment to achieve balanced CPU–memory utilization and reduced node activation. Pareto-front and weighted-sum analyses are used to study trade-offs among conflicting objectives. The framework is evaluated using iFogSim over CloudSim and compared against state-of-the-art schedulers. Results show that JointERO achieves up to 26% lower makespan, 23% reduced energy consumption, and 17% improved resource utilization, with statistical significance confirmed via ANOVA (p < 0.05). The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of JointERO for energy- and resource-efficient task mapping in dynamic Fog–Cloud systems.