Load balancing techniques for fog computing environment: Comparison, taxonomy, open issues, and challenges

Load balancing (LB) is nothing but the systematic distribution of load over different servers. The fog server is handling the maximum data of the cloud server to enhance the advancement of users' requests. The growth in data requests is escalating, and fog computing has intensified the accessibility of the data. Fog computing achieves many challenges according to the demands of the users, but even so, some challenges require more progress. The problem faced by fog computing is LB due to an increase in traffic on the network layer. Various LB techniques have already been proposed in the cloud layer, but until now they have only been in progress in the fog layer. Inefficient LB may cause a decrease in service quality, like delays in response time, processing time, security, and many more. In this survey, several algorithms have been discussed that are based on LB, which works out the issue of overloaded data on the network. Some parameters that authors have focused in LB are latency, bandwidth, deadlines, cost, security, execution time, and response time. Other parameters based on fault tolerance are also discussed with their quality parameter table and algorithm. In addition to this some of the limitations of the author's work, that is discussed in this article.

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Load balancing is the systematic distribution of load over different servers. The fog server handles a large amount of data from the cloud server to enhance user requests. While fog computing has addressed many challenges, load balancing remains an area that requires further improvement.