KR20190087169A - System and Methdo for Providing User Incentives in User Participatory Fog Computing Environment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment which provide an incentive in order to encourage a user to delegate a right to operate his or her device to a portal to build an efficient network infrastructure. The present invention comprises: a fog device registration management unit which supports the user to connect the fog device to the network and to register the fog device with the fog portal in order to provide a participation incentive paid for participation in infrastructure construction; a local network management unit which allows the fog portal to exchange information with an SDN controller to determine the local network to which the device is connected; an associated business search unit which searches for an Internet service provider (ISP) and cloud businesses associated with the network from a resource list thereof; and an incentive payment management unit which registers the user with a participation incentive payment target of the searched ISP and cloud businesses and distributes a participation incentive for operating expenses (OPEX) savings.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a system and method for providing user incentives in a user participatory fog computing environment,

The present invention relates to fog computing, and more particularly, to providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment in which an efficient network infrastructure can be constructed by providing an incentive to induce a user to delegate a management right for his / Apparatus and method.

Fog Computing is a new computing model proposed to solve various problems such as high latency, compute and traffic load concentration that can occur when IoT (Internet of Things) service operates in cloud computing environment, and inability to consider location information.

This is a concept that extends the cloud's previous services like computing, storage and network to a network edge closer to the real user or thing-that is, some of the roles that cloud data centers play in the router, network switch, Wi-Fi AP (Access Point), IoT GW (Gateway), mobile communication base station, and so on.

Therefore, when applying fog computing, it can naturally reduce the response time of network service while realizing all advantages of cloud-based, real-time service support, and provide service reflecting location / geographical characteristics.

For example, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) installed in an autonomous driving vehicle can quickly receive nearby traffic information or events such as construction / accident from nearby fog devices and utilize them.

Even when augmented reality information is processed through a head-up display (HUD) of a vehicle window, an operation that requires a large amount of computing resources such as object search and feature extraction from an input image and at the same time utilization of geographical characteristics is performed by an adjacent fog device Lt; / RTI >

In Smart City's disaster monitoring services, the discovery of a specific pattern can be performed over a long period of time by collecting data from a wide range of geographically sensitive sensors in the cloud data center, and features that require rapidity, such as actuator operation, Lt; / RTI > can be configured to perform fast on a fog device.

Fog Computing is not yet widely used, despite being recognized as a computing model for the quality improvement of numerous network services, including IoT, in many research and industry sectors.

There is no lack of core application services or lack of necessity, but the feasibility of realization is a big challenge.

In order to construct a fog computing infrastructure, existing cloud servers such as data processing and storage in network devices must be performed, which inevitably necessitates replacement of firmware and hardware of existing network equipment.

In addition, since fog computing is based on the use of edge network equipment, an Internet service provider (ISP), a wireless carrier, and a switch vendor may independently or collaboratively construct an infrastructure .

In terms of expanding the functions of the cloud to the edge network, the cloud service provider can be the realization entity, and if viewed from the aspect of the expansion of the network service itself, the network service provider may become the realization of the fog computing directly.

However, fog computing as a network infrastructure must be versatile.

In other words, it is not feasible for a network service provider to install a fog device directly in a target area in order to provide fog computing services, or to install a fog device directly in a place where an infrastructure provider is not guaranteed profitability, The resource management subjects of these are not clear.

Korean Patent No. 10-1574026 Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0120555 Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2016-0080239

In order to solve the problem of the conventional fog computing technology, the present invention provides an incentive for inducing a user to delegate the operating rights of his / her device to the portal, It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for providing user incentives in a computing environment.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment in which an efficient network infrastructure can be constructed by providing participation incentives paid for participation in infrastructure construction.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment in which an efficient network infrastructure can be constructed by providing a sharing incentive to be paid to a user sharing all resources other than those used by the user. There is a purpose.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment in which incentives are provided to a user in a user participatory fog computing environment to enable infrastructure construction to improve performance through a fog computing service. There is a purpose.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, in an apparatus for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention, in order to provide a participation incentive paid in exchange for participating in infrastructure construction, a user connects a fog apparatus to a network A fog device registration management unit for supporting registration of the device in the fog portal, a local network management unit for allowing the fog portal to identify the local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller, an Internet service provider (ISP) An incentive payment management unit for registering a user in the incentive payment target of the searched ISP and the cloud businesses and distributing an incentive to participate in the OPEX (Operating Expenses) savings; Characterized by .

In order to achieve the other object, in order to provide a sharing incentive for providing a user incentive to a user sharing all resources other than the user's incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention, A fog device registration management unit for supporting registration of the device in the fog portal after connecting the device to the network, a local network management unit for allowing the fog portal to identify the local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller, A fog container management unit for analyzing whether a fog container relocation is required in the network, a device information transmitting unit for transmitting information of a device connected to the manager, and a fog container managing unit for minimizing the amount of sharing incentives in the network It characterized in that it comprises a; relocation management to perform a batch process container; incentives for management share incentive pay, depending on the container placement process, the result of the relocation management.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user incentive in a user-participating fog computing environment, the method comprising: connecting a fog device to a network in order to provide an incentive to participate, Registering with the fog portal, the fog portal identifying the local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller, retrieving the ISP and the cloud business associated with the network from its resource list, A step of registering a user in an incentive payment target of businesses, and a step of providing an incentive for participating users to participate in an incentive for OPEX savings.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user incentive in a user-participating fog computing environment, the method comprising the steps of: providing a sharing incentive to a user sharing all resources other than the user incentive; The fog portal recognizes the local network and transmits the information of the connected device to the fog manager responsible for the network, analyzing whether the fog manager needs to relocate the fog container in the network, and relocating the fog container , The container placement process is performed so as to minimize the amount of sharing incentives in the network, and a sharing incentive is paid according to the result.

The apparatus and method for providing the user incentive in the user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention have the following effects.

First, it provides an incentive to induce users to delegate the operating rights of their devices to the portal, thereby enabling efficient network infrastructure construction.

Second, it provides incentives to participate in infrastructure construction, and provides incentives to share with users who share all resources other than what they use, so that users can actively participate in building effective network infrastructures .

Third, it provides incentives to users in the user participatory fog computing environment, thereby enhancing the performance through the fog computing service by activating infrastructure construction.

1 is a block diagram illustrating the concept of a user participatory fog computing architecture
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the types of incentives and the basis of payment in user participatory fog computing
3 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for providing incentive for participation according to the present invention;
Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating a participating incentive payment procedure
5 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for sharing incentive payment according to the present invention.
6 is a flowchart showing a sharing incentive payment procedure

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of an apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention will be described in detail.

The features and advantages of an apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of each embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a concept of a user participatory fog computing architecture, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an incentive type and a payment basis in a user participatory fog computing.

An apparatus and method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention can provide an incentive to a user in a user participatory fog computing environment to enable infrastructure construction to improve performance through a fog computing service.

Figure 1 illustrates a centralized fog computing architecture based on an independent management entity called the Fog Portal.

The user (personal or public facility manager) 100 purchases the direct fog device and connects the local fog device to the local network 300 to which the user belongs, and registers the newly connected fog device to the fog portal 200 To solve the CAPEX sharing problem of building and expanding the fog computing infrastructure.

When a service manager decides to place a fog container for a service in a specific area, a fog manager that performs a fog container placement decision within the local network of the area determines the container Is determined.

A user participating in the infrastructure construction can delegate the operation right of his / her device to the fog portal side and can declare the desired fog computing based service (fog service).

In this user participatory fog computing architecture, Fogg Portal assumes that the ultimate goal of users participating in the fog computing infrastructure is to expect the performance of their services to be improved using fog.

Under this assumption, a user purchases and installs a fog device to experience a performance improvement through the fog computing service, or to use a service that operates only based on fog computing.

For example, an individual user may declare a smart home service by purchasing / installing a Wi-Fi AP or switch-type fog device to use the smart home service in his or her home, and the fog device at this time provides the network And acts as a smart home hub at the same time.

Similarly, users can lease the computing resources of Fogg devices to smoothly operate smartphone 3D games that require high specification, and also can operate the healthcare, telemedicine, video security service, power measurement service The device will utilize the fog device.

However, there is a limit to increase the participation rate only if the user actually participates in receiving the fog service.

In such a construction model, an infrastructure provider or a network service provider can provide fog services while installing and operating the fog devices directly. In addition, if the user is an advanced user, the fog device can be installed It is possible to operate the fog container directly.

These cases have clear limits but do not imply impossibility. Compared with this construction model, if the fog portal acquires the operating rights to the existing device in order to perform the role of resource mediation, etc., it is possible for the user to operate the device at an unexpected time, Or a significant amount of power usage, etc., which may lead to a decrease in participation rate.

Therefore, an appropriate incentive must be paid to induce the user to delegate the operating rights for his device to the portal. In other words, incentives are an indispensable component of user engagement.

The present invention is to improve performance through fog computing services by providing incentives to users in the user participatory fog computing environment to enable infrastructure construction.

Fog computing is an intertwined architecture of various operators, so incentives can also create complex relationships.

Figure 2 shows the types of incentives paid to participating users.

The payment method and criteria define who, what, on what basis, and to whom the incentives are paid.

The incentive payers for participating users are non-participating users (NUs), Excessive Participating Users (EPUs), network infrastructure operators, cloud operators, and fog It can be a portal, each of which pays an incentive according to each criterion.

Types of incentives can be classified as participation incentives and shared incentives.

Participation incentives are incentives that are paid in return for participating in infrastructure construction.

Fog computing has the ability to effectively handle the traffic of network services in the global environment within the local network.

This can significantly reduce infrastructure utilization for cloud providers as well as network infrastructure operators such as ISPs and Wireless Carriers, leading to lower operating expenses (OPEX).

These infrastructure operators can offer some of the OPEX savings to participating users who have installed and registered Fogg devices in the form of refunds. However, it is very difficult to analyze how a particular participating user contributed to their OPEX savings.

The performance of the fog device provided by the participating user, the resource used by the user, the network usage, the characteristics of the network service used, etc. should be considered for each participating user. In addition, the container placement work performed periodically by the fog manager It helps to raise further.

Therefore, the ideal incentive payment standard for infrastructure operators is to distribute part of the OPEX savings evenly to all participating users regardless of device performance or usage.

FogPortal generates revenue from network service providers in the form of monthly fees, and this revenue will have a significant share of each participating user, such as crowdfunding.

Therefore, the portal is required to pay part of the net income to participating users in an incentive form, which is also included in the participation incentives.

Participating users can install various performance fog devices and determine policies about how much of the device's resources to share.

At this time, according to the sharing policy, the operation method of the portal is considerably different. If the user sets to share all the resources other than his / her own, the portal can enter more network services into the network and increase the profitability.

Also, flexibility and resilience are increased in terms of operation such as container placement. On the other hand, if the user specifies that resources exceeding the service he / she uses are not leased, resources other than the service declared by the user directly may be insufficient to enter the network, and the container placement flexibility is comparatively degraded. Therefore, the participation incentives provided by Fog Portal are paid in proportion to the resource provision for the participating user's infrastructure, not the performance of the device.

In addition to participating incentives, shared incentives are also essential for operational resilience.

In particular, in order to support NU or EPU, it is essential to provide appropriate incentives to existing participating users.

NU means a user who does not have a registered fog device. When the user wants to use the fog service, he / she pays the fee to the fog portal in proportion to the usage amount.

An EPU is a participating user who wishes to use a network service that requires more than his / her own foggy device performance. Similarly, when using the resources of another user's device, the EPG is proportional to the amount of usage We pay the fee for use.

The portal pays the royalties collected in proportion to the resources leased to participating users with devices with extra resources.

At this time, the Fog manager in the local network places the container to maximize incentive revenue.

That is, the container is arranged to use the device resources of the participating users to the minimum at the same collection fee.

In this way, inter-user incentives pay incentives based on workload or storage usage.

Table 1 summarizes the incentive payment criteria for each user category.

Non-participating users are not entitled to participation incentives and pay a fee for using the service according to the use of the service.

Resource Excess Participation Users can receive incentive to participate, but they use a portion of the resources of other users to pay for their excess usage.

Participating users receive all incentive incentives. In the case of shared incentives, incentives are given in proportion to their usage when containers for other users on their devices are deployed as a result of container placement.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an apparatus for paying a participating incentive according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a participating incentive paying procedure.

As shown in FIG. 3, the fog device registration management unit 30 supports the user to register the fog device in the fog portal after connecting the fog device to the network, and a local network An affiliated business search unit 32 for searching the resource list of the ISP and the cloud business associated with the network, and a user who is entitled to participate in incentives of the searched ISP and the cloud businesses And an incentive payment management unit 33 for registering and distributing incentive incentives for OPEX savings.

As shown in FIG. 4, the participating incentive payment procedure is performed when the user registers the fog device in the fog portal (S401), and the fog portal identifies the local network to which the corresponding device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller (S402)

Then, the ISP and the cloud business associated with the network are searched from the resource list of the ISP (S403)

The ISP will be the infrastructure manager for the network, and the cloud business is determined by analyzing the traffic and determining the amount of traffic and workload from that network.

The registered users of the searched ISPs and cloud businesses participate in the incentive payment target, and the participating users receive the incentive to participate in the incentive distribution of the OPEX savings (S404).

Sharing incentive payments are as follows.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for sharing incentive payment according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a sharing incentive payment procedure.

5, a fog device registration management unit 51 for supporting a user to register a fog device to a network and registering the device in the fog portal, A device information transfer unit 53 for transferring information of a device connected to a fog manager responsible for the network, a fog container management unit 52 for analyzing whether a fog container relocation in the network is necessary, A relocation management unit 55 that performs a container placement process so as to minimize the amount of sharing incentives in the network according to the analysis result of the fog container management unit 54 and a container placement process result of the relocation management unit 55 And an incentive payment management unit 56 for paying a sharing incentive.

6, when the user registers the fog device (S601), the fog portal recognizes the local network (S602), and transmits the information of the device connected to the fog manager responsible for the network S603)

Next, the Fog manager analyzes whether the fog container relocation in the network is urgently required (S604)

Since the fog container relocation process may be expensive, the fog container relocation process is terminated after reserving the relocation in the next cycle if not necessary immediately (S607)

If necessary, a container placement process is performed (in order to maximize the profit of the fog portal) so as to minimize the amount of sharing incentives in the network (S605), and a sharing incentive is paid according to the result (S606)

The portal takes no fees in sharing resources between the resource requesting user and the participating user, and the portal only takes profit for the power consumption, which is reduced when optimizing the container placement of the Fog manager.

In other words, portals can maximize their rental income by minimizing power consumption.

Minimizing incentives In the process of performing container relocation, Fog manager can maximize the revenues of Fog Portal by minimizing the amount of shared incentives in the situation where the resource rental income is fixed.

Within a particular network, a service can provide fog services by multiple fog containers that operate on multiple fog devices.

At one point in time, one container runs only on one device, and one device can run multiple containers.

Each container corresponds to a user's service request with an appropriate value or action, and does not correspond to a single request from a single user across multiple containers.

That is, a particular user using multiple fog services communicates with multiple fog devices, but each service request is processed by only one device.

를 정의할 수 있으며, 이것은 사용자 u의 서비스 s에 대한 트래픽은 디바이스 d로 가는지 여부를 나타낸다.At this time, a selection matrix of a three-dimensional matrix having a binomial value

, Which indicates whether traffic for user u's service s goes to device d.

The workload, which is the base of resource usage, can be defined as CPU, memory, and I / O workload. However, since the resource used may vary depending on the type of service, do.

However, this power consumption may be used as another value that can normalize the workload.

The fog container for a particular service can exist as described above.

In this case, the container that provides the additional function to operate the application container such as the firewall, the database, and the load balancer for the other service is called the functional container.

The function container must operate on all the fog devices in which the application container operates. That is, if the application container of the specific service does not operate in the specific device, the function container does not exist. If the application container is operated, Must operate one by one.

The selection variable must be set to one for a device for which a particular user is generating traffic, which is defined as in Equation (2).

는 사용자 u가 서비스 s의 컨테이너에 대해 발생시킨 초당 평균 트래픽을 나타내며,

는 트래픽 벡터 집합을 나타낸다.here

Represents the average traffic per second generated by user u for the container of service s,

Denotes a traffic vector set.

And for all services, the sum of the workload due to traffic generated by all users for a specific device is smaller than the total workload of the device, and the following relationship holds.

는 기능 컨테이너의 트래픽 당 워크로드를,

는 서비스 s의 어플리케이션 컨테이너의 트래픽 당 워크로드를 나타낸다.

는 서비스 s가 사용하는 기능 컨테이너 개수를 나타내며, 기능 컨테이너의 트래픽 당 워크로드는 서비스에 따른 유의미한 차이가 없다.here

The workload per feature of the functional container,

Represents the workload per traffic of the application container of the service s.

Indicates the number of function containers used by the service s, and there is no significant difference in the workloads per function traffic of the function container.

The Fog manager deploys the containers to minimize the power consumption due to fog computing in the network, taking into consideration the service usage per user. The amount of power consumed by device d can be expressed as:

는 디바이스 d에서 동작하는 모든 컨테이너들의 유휴 상태 포함 기본 전력 소모량을,

는 활성화된 컨테이너의 전력 소모량을,

는 통신에 의한 전력 소모량을 각각 나타낸다. 각 수치는 아래와 같이 표현할 수 있다.here

Includes the idle state basic power consumption of all containers operating in device d,

The power consumption of the activated container,

Represents a power consumption amount by communication. Each numerical value can be expressed as follows.

은 디바이스 d의 각 동작별 전력 효율을 나타낸다.here

Represents the power efficiency of each operation of the device d.

If there is no Container Deployment action for the Fog Manager, then all containers for all services that it uses for all users will only work on their own devices.

At this time, the amount of power consumed by the device is the same as the amount of power consumed by the use of the service of the device holder (user).

That is, it is possible to estimate the resource usage of a specific user by using the estimated power consumption. It can be expressed and formulated as follows.

Using this equation, we can define a shared incentive based on the power consumption of the workload.

The amount of incentives paid to participating users who provide their device resources to other users is defined as:

Since user u and device d have a one-to-one relationship, if device d runs more workload than user u, incentive is paid to user u, otherwise it is not paid.

에 의해 정의되는 상황에서 공유 인센티브를 최소화하기 위한 최적화 문제는 다음과 같이 정의되며, 이 문제에서 최적 해를 찾음으로 인해 포그 포털의 수익을 최대화할 수 있는 인센티브 지급 방법을 구현한다.The collection fee is the traffic vector

The optimization problem for minimizing the sharing incentive in the situation defined by the following is defined as follows and implements an incentive payment method that maximizes the profit of the fog portal because of finding the optimal solution in this problem.

The apparatus and method for providing the user incentive in the user participatory fog computing environment according to the present invention may include a participation incentive paid in exchange for participating in the infrastructure construction to induce the user to delegate the operating rights for the device to the portal And provide sharing incentives to users who share all resources other than those they use, thereby enabling efficient network infrastructure construction.

As described above, the present invention provides an incentive to a user in a user participatory fog computing environment to enable infrastructure construction, thereby improving performance through a fog computing service.

As described above, it will be understood that the present invention is implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention.

It is therefore to be understood that the specified embodiments are to be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense and that the scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description and that all such differences falling within the scope of equivalents thereof are intended to be embraced therein It should be interpreted.

30. Fog device registration management unit 31. Local network management unit
32. Affiliated business search department 33. Incentive payment management department

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In order to provide incentives for participation paid in exchange for participation in infrastructure construction,
A fog device registration management unit for supporting a user registering the fog device in the fog portal after connecting the fog device to the network;
A local network manager for allowing the fog portal to identify a local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller;
An associated business entity search unit for searching, from its resource list, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and a cloud business entity associated with the network;
And an incentive payment management unit for registering users to the incentive payment targets of the searched ISPs and cloud businesses and distributing incentive for participation in OPEX (Operating Expenses) savings. . In order to provide sharing incentives for users sharing all resources other than those they use,
A fog device registration management unit for supporting a user registering the fog device in the fog portal after connecting the fog device to the network;
A local network manager for allowing the fog portal to identify a local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller;
A device information transmitting unit for transmitting information of a device connected to a fog manager responsible for the network;
A fog container management unit for analyzing whether a fog container relocation in the network is necessary;
A relocation management unit for performing a container disposing process so as to minimize a share incentive payment amount in the network according to an analysis result of the fog container managing unit;
And an incentive payment management unit for providing a sharing incentive according to a container placement process result of the relocation management unit. 3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the paying entity of the incentive paid to the participating user comprises:
A non-participating user (NU), an Excessive Participating User (EPU), a network infrastructure operator, a cloud provider, a fog portal, or a combination thereof, Wherein the user is provided with an incentive based on a different criterion. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the non-participating user can not receive the incentive to participate, pays the fee to the fog portal according to the use of the service,
Resource Excess Participation The user receives the incentive to participate, pays for the excess usage that uses some of the other user's resources,
The participating users receive all incentive incentives, and in the case of sharing incentives, incentives are given in proportion to the usage amount when a container for another user operates the container for the user as a result of container placement. Lt; / RTI > 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the fog portal does not receive a fee in resource sharing between the resource requesting user and the participating user, and the fog portal has a revenue for the power consumption which is reduced in optimizing the container placement of the fog manager. Apparatus for providing user incentives in a computing environment. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein in the procedure for performing the container placement process,
Wherein the Fog manager maximizes the revenue of the fog portal by minimizing the amount of shared incentives in a situation where the resource rental revenue is fixed. In order to provide incentives for participation paid in exchange for participation in infrastructure construction,
When the user registers the fog device on the network and registers the fog device on the fog portal, the fog portal recognizes the local network to which the device is connected through information exchange with the SDN controller;
Retrieving an ISP and a cloud business associated with the network from their resource list;
Registering users to the incentive payment targets of the searched ISPs and cloud businesses;
And paying participating incentives to the participating users in distributing the incentive to the OPEX savings. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 20 > The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the ISP is determined to be an infrastructure manager of the network, and the cloud business entity determines the amount of traffic from the network and the workload by analyzing the traffic to determine the user incentive in the user participatory fog computing environment. Way. In order to provide sharing incentives for users sharing all resources other than those they use,
When the user registers the fog device, the fog portal recognizes the local network and transmits information of the device connected to the fog manager responsible for the network.
Analyzing whether the fog manager needs to relocate the fog container in the network;
Wherein if a fog container relocation is needed, a container placement process is performed to minimize the amount of shared incentive in the network, and a sharing incentive is paid according to the result. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the fog portal does not receive a fee in resource sharing between the resource requesting user and the participating user, and the fog portal has a revenue for power consumption that is reduced in optimizing the container placement of the fog manager. A method for providing user incentives in a computing environment. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein in the procedure for performing the container placement process,
A method for providing a user incentive in a user participatory fog computing environment, wherein the fog manager maximizes the revenue of the fog portal by minimizing the amount of shared incentives in a situation where the resource rental revenue is fixed. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein one service in a particular network provides fog services by a plurality of fog containers operating on multiple fog devices,
Wherein one container operates only in one device at a particular point in time, and one device operates in a plurality of containers. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the traffic for service " s " of user u goes to device " d "

By definition,

The method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a user incentive in a user engaged fog computing environment; 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the selection variable for a service for which a particular user generates traffic comprises:

Lt; / RTI >
here

Represents the average traffic per second generated by user u for the container of service s,

Is a set of traffic vectors. ≪ RTI ID = 0.0 > [10] < / RTI > 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the sum of workloads due to traffic generated by all users for a particular device is less than the total workload of the device,

Lt; / RTI >
here,

Workload per feature container of traffic,

Is the workload per traffic of the application container of the service s,

Is a number of functional containers used by the service (s). 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the power consumption consumed in the device < RTI ID = 0.0 > d &

Lt; / RTI >
here,

Is the idle state of all containers operating in device d, including the basic power consumption,

The power consumption of the activated container,

Is a power consumption amount by a communication.

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