Fog micro service market: Promoting fog computing using free market mechanism
Yi-Hsuan Hung, Chih-Yu Wang · 2018
Fog computing is proposed to mitigate cloud micro services, such as IoT gateway or AR data cache, from the centralized cloud to nearby base station (BS) or devices. The mobile users' devices can access service from nearby devices directly through Device to Device (D2D) communications. However, the incentive of devices to provide micro service is a challenge since the devices would spend their storage, computation, and energy resource. In this paper, we propose Fog Micro Service Market Game (FoMG), a game-theoretic framework to promote Fog computing in Fog-enabled cellular system on mobile devices through free market mechanism. The mobile users may decide the micro services they are going to rent (renting strategy) and the price of the services (pricing strategy) freely. The optimal strategy and Nash equilibrium of FoMG are derived through proposed algorithms. The simulation results showed that the overall system utility can be significantly improved through the proposed system.