Optimized Resource Allocation Algorithm for a Deadline-Aware IoT Healthcare Model

Abstract

In recent years, the healthcare market has grown very fast and is dealing with a huge increase in data. Healthcare applications are time-sensitive and need quick responses with fewer delays. Fog Computing (FC) was introduced to achieve this aim. It can be applied in various application areas like healthcare, smart and intelligent environments, etc. In healthcare applications, some tasks are considered critical and need to be processed first; other tasks are time-sensitive and need to be processed before their deadline. In this paper, we have proposed a Task Classification algorithm based on Deadline and Criticality (TCDC) for serving healthcare applications in a fog environment. It depends on classifying tasks based on the critical level to process critical tasks first and considers the deadline of the task, which is an essential parameter to consider in real-time applications. The performance of TCDC was compared with some of the literature. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm can improve the overall performance in terms of some QoS parameters like makespan with an improved ratio from 60% to 70%, resource utilization, etc.