Resumen
Colossal amounts of unstructured multimedia data are generated in the modern Internet of Things (IoT) environment. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) techniques are utilized to extract useful information from the data that are generated constantly. Nevertheless, integrating DL methods with IoT devices is a challenging issue due to their restricted computational capacity. Although cloud computing solves this issue, it has some problems such as service delay and network congestion. Hence, fog computing has emerged as a breakthrough way to solve the problems of using cloud computing. In this article, we propose a strategy that assigns a portion of the DL layers to fog nodes in a fog-computing-based smart agriculture environment. The proposed deep learning entrusted to fog nodes (DLEFN) algorithm decides the optimal layers of DL model to execute on each fog node, considering their available computing capacity and bandwidth. The DLEFN individually calculates the optimal layers for each fog node with dissimilar computational capacities and bandwidth. In a similar experimental environment, comparison results clearly showed that proposed method accommodated more DL application than other existing assignment methods and utilized resources efficiently while reducing network congestion and processing burden on the cloud.