An Effective IoT Service-to-Interface Assignment Algorithm via Search Economics

The possibilities of Internet of Things (IoT) are much clearer nowadays than last century because of the matured hardwares, systems, and platforms. The so-called service-to-interface assignment (SIA) is one of the promising problems of IoT system management because a “good solution” may be able to reduce the utilization cost of an IoT device. Although traditional rule-based algorithms may be able to find out an approximate solution for the SIA, there is still plenty of room for improvement. The proposed algorithm-a novel metaheuristic algorithm called search economics for SIA-is built on the idea of return on investment of finance and economics. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to find out better results than other state-of-the-art search algorithms for SIA with multiple IoT devices in terms of the quality of the end result.