Toward an efficient healthcare CloudIoT architecture by using a game theory approach. (September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: de Macedo, Douglas Dyllon Jeronimo; de Araújo, Gustavo Medeiros; Dutra, Moisés Lima; Dutra, Silvana Toriani; Lezana, Álvaro Guillermo Rojas
• Is Part Of: Concurrent engineering, research and applications. Volume 27:Number 3(2019:Sep.)
• Page Start: 189
• Page End: 200
• Publication Date: 2019-09
• Subjects: Healthcare -- CloudIoT architecture -- smart environments -- game theory approach; Production engineering -- Periodicals; Concurrent engineering -- Periodicals; 621.39
• DOI: 10.1177/1063293X19844548
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1063-293X

Abstract

The increasing adoption of the Internet of things and cloud computing in recent years provided the increasing development and improvement of various well-known approaches, such as the ambient assisted living approach. The merging of Internet of things and cloud brought about the so-called CloudIoT paradigm. CloudIoT intends to extend both technologies to make possible developing the next generation of smart environments, such as healthcare applications. New healthcare applications demand an increasing capacity of resources for storing, processing, and transmitting data. Looking at this scenario, along with the growing number of devices connected to the Internet of things, we must consider providing mechanisms to mitigate the excessive data offloading on the network, the latency between nodes, and even the unnecessary waste of computing power. In this article, we present an efficient and effective CloudIoT-based healthcare architecture for ambient assisted living environments. The innovation of our approach lies on the use of a game theory approach (by means of a stochastic search algorithm) to improve efficiency and latency of the CloudIoT network. This proposal aims to provide better availability levels to the whole environment. Experiments performed through simulation have shown us a remarkable improvement of network parameters, by applying a stochastic search algorithm called Gur game, when compared to a baseline application.