QoS-Aware Service Discovery and Selection Management for Cloud-Edge Computing Using a Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm in IoT

Cloud-edge computing is an emerging computing model based on Service Oriented Architecture that provides reliable and available cloud services as scalable resources by collaborating fog nodes on Internet of Things (IoT) environments. One of the important issues on service discovery is energy efficiency and security for existing cloud providers and fog nodes. An optimal service discovery and selection approach as an NP-Hard problem can effective on decreasing time and cost in cloud providers to achieve through maximum capacity of Quality of Service (QoS) factors. To address of the above challenges, this paper focuses on above-mentioned outcomes and presents a QoS-aware cloud-edge service discovery and selection model in IoT environment. This model is evaluated based on a hybrid multi-objective meta-heuristic algorithm based on a Grey Wolf Optimizer and a Genetic Algorithm (GWO-GA) for evaluating QoS factors as non-functional properties. The proposed model is meant to guarantee QoS factors such as the response time, energy consumption and cost factors for the service discovery and selection problem in the IoT environment. Experimental showed that the proposed method performs 30% better than the other algorithms for decreasing cost factor.