A Priority-Based Message Response Time Aware Job Scheduling Model for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Abstract

The Internet of Things is seen as the progressive version of internet involving the transmission of information between things/objects with the aim of context-aware processing. The IoT can be anything ranging from home appliances, vehicles, almost anything networked and fitted with sensors, actuators or embedded computers. The IoT aims to make the internet sensory while maintaining a minimum quality of service (QoS) guarantee. In such an environment, job scheduling becomes very important, ensuring the minimum response time for message transfer. This work proposes an SCM based scheduling model for the IoT with the aim of minimization of the response time to optimize the scheduling performance of the underlying network and minimize the execution costs. After being serviced by a given node with its queue acting as a server for the message, appropriate next node for message forwarding is selected offering the least response time until the message reaches the destination. The effect of message scheduling to account for both the prioritized and non-prioritized message delivery has been studied.