Analysis of Fog Networking Procedures in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide a general framework of the latest trends of mobile network architectures. The two main architectures treated in this work are Cloud-RAN and Fog-RAN. We give descriptions of both architectures, then show advantages and disadvantages of them. We mainly focus on the performance of Fog-RAN model taking into account only computation and communication latencies. In order to analyse our Fog-RAN architecture, we measure the impact of traffic produced in our network, by using 3 different policies: Random Policy, Maximum Available Capacity Policy and Nearest Node Policy. Furthermore, we measure the impact of delay by fixing the amount of traffic generated by the network. Numerical results of our considered scenarios show that the maximum available capacity policy outperforms two other polices, when the traffic produced in the network is very high. When the traffic is very low, the best policy is the nearest node one. On the other hand, by fixing the amount of traffic we show that when the delay threshold is from 1-3 ms the Maximum capacity policy performs better than two other policies. When the delay threshold is greater than 5 ms the Nearest Node policy shows better results