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An Incentive-Compatible Offloading Mechanism in Fog-Cloud Environments Using Second-Price Sealed-Bid Auction

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In a fog-cloud environment, the tasks submitted by end-users are first sent to intermediate nodes called fog nodes. If the computing resources in fog nodes are insufficient, the nodes will offload tasks to the remote cloud. Naturally, intermediate nodes are reluctant to offload tasks to upstream entities, which in turn results in a degradation in network performance. To motivate such reluctant nodes, some previous studies have used game theoretical approaches. We believe that auction theory is one of the most important mathematical tools to motivate fog nodes to participate in offloading operations. In this paper, we propose a second-price sealed-bid auction mechanism to optimize offloading. In our model, the service unit plays the role of the commodity. Also, fog nodes and cloud datacenter play the role of bidders and auctioneers, respectively. We prove that the proposed auction mechanism has two important properties of incentive compatibility and incentive rationality. We formulate the problem using queuing theory in both the edge layer and the cloud layer. In each layer, the auction mechanism is used to allocate resources. We compare the proposed mechanism with state-of-the-art methods. Experimental evaluations using the iFogSim simulator indicated that the proposed method is much better than other methods in terms of significant criteria such as execution time, energy consumption, and network usage.

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The datasets generated during and analyzed during the current study are available in the [MENDELEY] repository, [http://data.mendeley.com/datasets/b7v3rmf9jd/1].

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    Reza Besharati, Mohammad Hossein Rezvani & Mohammad Mehdi Gilanian Sadeghi

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Besharati, R., Rezvani, M.H. & Sadeghi, M.M.G. An Incentive-Compatible Offloading Mechanism in Fog-Cloud Environments Using Second-Price Sealed-Bid Auction. J Grid Computing 19, 37 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-021-09576-w

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