Blockchain-enabled framework using diversity mutation with siberian tiger optimization for offloading in fog computing

Abstract

Fog computing has developed as a promising framework to support latency sensitive internet of things (IoT) applications for mobile devices operating in dynamic environments. During the offloading process, malicious activities interrupt the existing methods, which increases the execution time. Therefore, this research proposes a diversity mutation with siberian tiger optimization (DM-STO) for computation offloading in blockchain based fog computing. The blockchain is used to secure offload and attain quality of service (QoS) mobile users with less energy consumption and execution time. The DM-STO can balance workloads among local devices and fog servers. The diversity mutation operation improves the exploration ability to dynamic network conditions, leading to efficient computational offloading in fog computing. The execution time, service cost and energy consumption are evaluated to calculate the performance of the proposed DM-STO with varying numbers of IoT requests such as 50, 100, 200, and 300. For 50 IoT requests with a fixed fog server of 10, the DM-STO achieves an execution time of 18 s, a service cost of 10$ and energy consumption of 5 mJ compared to the BAT algorithm.