A comprehensive architecture for an IoRT-aware Business Process outsourcing into Fog and Cloud computing

Najla Fattouch, Imen Ben Lahmar, Khouloud Boukadi
2021 Tunisian-Algerian Joint Conference on Applied Computing  
The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is an aggregation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and robotic technologies. Thanks to its benefits, IoRT technology has seen significant growth, and it has swept various fields such as Business Process (BP), where it has given birth to a new business generation known as IoRT-aware Business Process (IoRT-aware BP). These processes necessitate costly execution infrastructures, which encourage their outsourcing. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is among the
more » ... ost common and appealing business strategies that aim to reduce enterprise operating costs. In this setting, the business managers seek to outsource their IoRT-aware BPs to the Fog and Cloud paradigms. Enterprises can avail of Fog and Cloud at their infrastructures and services during the execution of their process. Nonetheless, outsourcing an IoRT-aware BP to the Fog and Cloud is not a trivial task due to the diversity of the tasks requirements, the capacities of Fog/ Cloud devices, and the outsourcing techniques. In addition, most of the existing works are limited to outsourcing of classical BPs based on the Virtual Machine (VM) execution despite the proliferation of container technique that empowers the Fog/ Cloud computing through an horizontal scalability. Therefore, we aim through this paper to propose an architecture for optimal outsourcing of an IoRT-aware BP into the Fog and Cloud paradigms. Our architecture considers not only the VM execution but also the container one. Furthermore, our proposal aims to respond better to the process requirements by considering the available resources in Fog and Cloud infrastructures.
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