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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
May. 01, 2020
Dell Products L. P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for migrating tasks between edge devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) system in a manner to generally minimize the total amount of time to execute and migrate the tasks. At least one embodiment includes a computer-implemented method for receiving a task for execution at an edge device; detecting whether a task migration condition exists at the edge device; dividing the task into a plurality of subtasks of equal data size b; and migrating at least some of the subtasks of data size b to a further edge device for execution. At least one embodiment designates 1˜n subtasks of size b for execution by the edge device and n+1˜N subtasks of data size b for execution by the further edge device and optimizes the total time for execution of the subtasks is optimized as a function of n.