Benchmarking Bio-Inspired Metaheuristics for Load-Aware Task Offloading in Hierarchical IoT-Fog-Cloud Ecosystems
A novel unified benchmarking framework that systematically evaluates five prominent metaheuristics — Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and Artificial Bee Colony — for load balancing within a three-tier arch...