A Truthful Online Mechanism for Allocating Fog Computing Resources

The Internet of Things (IoT) is developing rapidly, and it is estimated that by 2025 22 billion active devices will be in the IoT [13]. Since it is impossible to let the often low-powered IoT devices perform all computing tasks, some of which are highly computationally demanding, fog computing, which extends the cloud to be closer IoT devices, has been proposed as a solution [3]. To make the most of the fog resources and maximise the efficiency, good fog computing resource allocation mechanisms are needed.