Toward IoT fog computing-enabled system energy consumption modeling and optimization by adaptive TCP/IP protocol

Nowadays, due to the fast-growing wireless technologies and delay-sensitive applications, Internet of things (IoT) and fog computing will assemble the paradigm Fog of IoT. Since the spread of fog computing, the optimum design of networking and computing resources over the wireless access network would play a vital role in the empower of computing-intensive and delay-sensitive applications under the extent of the energy-limited wireless Fog of IoT. Such applications consume considarable amount of energy when sending and receiving data. Although there many approaches to attain energy efficiency already exist, few of them address the TCP protocol or the MTU size. In this work, we present an effective model to reduce energy consumption. Initially, we measured the consumed energy based on the actual parameters and real traffic for different values of MTU. After that, the work is generalized to estimate the energy consumption for the whole network for different values of its parameters. The experiments were made on different devices and by using different techniques. The results show clearly an inverse proportional relationship between the MTU size and the amount of the consumed energy. The results are promising and can be merged with the existing work to get the optimal solution to reduce the energy consumption in IoT and wireless networks.