Joint Optimisation of Time and Energy Consumption for Data Aggregation in Fog-Enabled IoT Networks
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Fog computing extends cloud capabilities to the network edge, enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to offload computation to nearby fog nodes rather than a remote cloud. Offloading aggregation tasks reduces data redundancy and accelerates analytics while easing device energy use and backhaul load. Yet end-to-end completion time—comprising execution, transmission, and queueing—can still be substantial, creating a challenging time-energy trade-off. We formulate data-aggregation offloading as a multi-objective optimization problem that jointly minimizes latency (makespan) and energy under compute and bandwidth constraints. To solve it, we develop an NSGA-III-based method that searches for Pareto-optimal offloading and scheduling decisions across sensor and fog nodes. Comprehensive simulations and systematic experiments demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, delivering lower latency and energy consumption with better scalability.Description
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Internet of Things (Netherlands), ISSN: 2543-1536 (Print); 2542-6605 (Online), Elsevier, 34, 101775-101775. doi: 10.1016/j.iot.2025.101775
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