Research Area:  Cloud Computing
Fog computing provides a more flexible service environment than cloud computing. The lightweight fog environment is suitable for industrial applications. In order to strengthen service scalability, container virtualization has been proposed and studied in recent years. It is vital to explore the tradeoff between service scalability and operating expenses. This paper integrates the hypervisor technique with container virtualization, and constructs an integrated virtualization (IV) fog platform for deploying industrial applications based on the virtual network function. This paper presents a fuzzy-based real-time autoscaling (FRAS) mechanism and implements it in the IV fog platform. The FRAS mechanism provides a dynamic, rapid, lightweight, and low-cost solution to the service autoscaling problem. Experimental results showed that the proposed FRAS mechanism yields a better service scale with lower average delay, error rate, and operating expenses compared to other autoscaling schemes.
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Author(s) Name:  Fan-Hsun Tseng; Ming-Shiun Tsai; Chia-Wei Tseng; Yao-Tsung Yang; Chien-Chang Liu; Li-Der Chou
Journal name:   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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Publisher name:  IEEE
DOI:  10.1109/TII.2018.2799230
Volume Information:  Volume: 14, Issue: 10, Oct. 2018,Page(s): 4529 - 4537
Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8272512