Task Allocation Among Connected Devices: Requirements, Approaches, and Challenges

Task allocation (TA) is essential when deploying application tasks to systems of connected devices with dissimilar and time-varying characteristics. The challenge an efficient TA assign the best devices, according context task requirements. main purpose this article study different connotations concept xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">efficiency , key factors that most impact on it, so relevant design guidelines can be defined. This first analyzes domains where has important role, which brings classification: 1) Internet Things (IoT); 2) sensor actuator networks (SANs); 3) multirobot (MRSs); 4) mobile crowdsensing (MCS); 5) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). then demonstrates actually affects choices state-of-the-art solutions. It results resource management significantly driven algorithms in all domains, especially IoT SAN. fulfillment coverage requirements for definition solutions MCS UAV. Quality Information are mostly included strategies, similar appropriate incentives. also discusses issues need addressed by future research activities, i.e., allowing interoperability platforms implementation functionalities; introducing trust evaluation algorithms; list performed objects; designing strategies network service providers have a role functionalities’ provisioning.