A new approach for task managing in the fog-based medical cyber-physical systems using a hybrid algorithm

Purpose This paper aims to offer a hybrid genetic algorithm and the ant colony optimization (GA-ACO) algorithm for task mapping and resource management. The paper aims to reduce the makespan and total response time in fog computing- medical cyber-physical system (FC-MCPS). Design/methodology/approach Swift progress in today’s medical technologies has resulted in a new kind of health-care tool and therapy techniques like the MCPS. The MCPS is a smart and reliable mechanism of entrenched clinical equipment applied to check and manage the patients’ physiological condition. However, the extensive-delay connections among cloud data centers and medical devices are so problematic. FC has been introduced to handle these problems. It includes a group of near-user edge tools named fog points that are collaborating until executing the processing tasks, such as running applications, reducing the utilization of a momentous bulk of data and distributing the messages. Task mapping is a challenging problem for managing fog-based MCPS. As mapping is an non-deterministic pol ynomial-time-hard optimization issue, this paper has proposed a procedure depending on the hybrid GA-ACO to solve this problem in FC-MCPS. ACO and GA, that is applied in their standard formulation and combined as hybrid meta-heuristics to solve the problem. As such ACO-GA is a hybrid meta-heuristic using ACO as the main approach and GA as the local search. GA-ACO is a memetic algorithm using GA as the main approach and ACO as local search. Findings MATLAB is used to simulate the proposed method and compare it to the ACO and MACO algorithms. The experimental results have validated the improvement in makespan, which makes the method a suitable one for use in medical and real-time systems. Research limitations/implications The proposed method can achieve task mapping in FC-MCPS by attaining high efficiency, which is very significant in practice. Practical implications The proposed approach can achieve the goal of task scheduling in FC-MCPS by attaining the highest total computational efficiency, which is very significant in practice. Originality/value This research proposes a GA-ACO algorithm to solve the task mapping in FC-MCPS. It is the most significant originality of the paper.