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Jul 2026
Sustainable and trust-aware multi-tier fog-cloud infrastructure for energy-optimal IIoT operations: adaptive resource management and blockchain-assured security.
The Energy-Aware Hierarchical Green Fog framework is presented, which introduces a unified reinforcement learning (RL) orchestration layer that explicitly incorporates residual energy, renewable energy availability, spatial proximity, and task deadlines into hierarchical fog-cloud decision-making.
M. Harandi, Afshin Yaghoobi
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