Task Allocation Based on Simulated Annealing for Edge Industrial Internet

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications are critical in terms of response time and accuracy. Cloud computing is often associated with IIoT as a technology to provide significant resources, such as long-term storage and processing power. When industrial devices send data to cloud computing, latency appears as an important aspect. In this context, Edge computing is a potential alternative, as it offers resources for processing at the edge of the network. This paper provides a Simulated Annealing-based approach to the allocation of tasks in industry. The edge node receives multiple tasks with different priorities to process from vehicles and must find the best order of task completion to meet the application deadline. The results obtained in the iFogSim simulator prove that the Task Allocation Approach was able to select the best order that obeys the application deadline in different configuration scenarios.