A QoS-Aware Traffic Management Policy for IoT-enabled Smart City Applications based on Edge Cloud Computing

The advances of IoT have facilitated the development of many areas such as smart cities, smart homes, smart health care, etc. However, managing the big amount of data generated in these domains requires the right traffic policies. Though, edge computing along with cloud computing is a viable solution for IoT data processing, Quality of Service (QoS) factors should be considered when sending data between the edge and the cloud over the infrastructure network. In this paper, a QoS aware traffic management policy in IoT based on edge cloud computing is proposed. A billing system of a smart city in which, some smart meters generate data continuously and send it to the edge and cloud data centers for further processing, is simulated as an evaluation scenario. The experimental results showed that the proposed policy could impressively reduce the application total running time and the energy consumption of the smart meters.