Research Article

New Application Task Offloading Algorithms for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing Paradigms

Table 1

System parameters used in the simulation experiments.
(a)

ParameterValueDescription

, 100, 10Total number of mobile devices and fog nodes
, , 5, 100, 1000 GHz/sThe computation capacities of , , and , respectively
, , 1.5, 1.75, 2Coefficient QoE parameters of , , and , respectively
, , 0.2, 0.5, 1Control factors to decide the reference point value
, , 125, 75, 50 msecComputation delay factors of , , and , respectively
, 100, 200 msecCommunication delay factors of and , respectively
100 MHzBasic computation unit for computation offloading service
1 secondThe system’s basic time-unit for the task offloading service

(b)

Application typeApplication taskComputation amount ()Time deadline ()

Computation-intensive applications300 GHzN/A
400 GHzN/A
500 GHzN/A

Time-sensitive applications250 GHz5 seconds
450 GHz10 seconds
900 GHz15 seconds