Scheduling in Cloud of Things: An Overview

Computing, Internet, digital devices, smart devices, and other technologies were leading to a new terminology known as cloud of things (CoT). Cloud of Things is a powerful technology used to analyze and store massive data from thousands of distributed devices (smartphones, vehicles, home appliances, sensors, etc.). Further, Cloud of Things integrated two concepts, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. There are many issues in cloud computing that have been widely studied, such as scheduling. On the other hand, a few issues have been studied in Cloud of Things. The objective of this paper is to discuss and classify the scheduling issues in Cloud of Things. Researchers have developed algorithms for different environments such as heterogeneous/homogeneous clusters, cloud computing, and large-scale community grids. By reviewing and considering many of these articles, we provided an overview for reuse these state-of-the-art algorithms in Cloud of Things environments. In addition, this paper provides researchers with ideas and platform for finding open research and exploring Cloud of Things issues.