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As a cloud extension, the fog processes\u2019 infrastructure is close to VANET, fostering an environment favorable to smart cars with IT equipment and effective task management oversight. Vehicle processing power, bandwidth, time, and high-speed mobility are all limited in VANET. It is critical to satisfy the vehicles\u2019 requirements for minimal latency and fast reaction times while offloading duties to the fog layer. We proposed a fuzzy logic-based task scheduling system in VANET to minimize latency and improve the enhanced response time when offloading tasks in the IoV. The proposed method effectively transfers workloads to the fog computing layer while considering the constrained resources of car nodes. After choosing a suitable processing unit, the algorithm sends the job and its associated resources to the fog layer. The dataset is related to crisp values for fog computing for system utilization, latency, and task deadline time for over 5000 values. The task execution, latency, deadline of task, storage, CPU, and bandwidth utilizations are used for fuzzy set values. We proved the effectiveness of our proposed task scheduling framework via simulation tests, outperforming current algorithms in terms of task ratio by 13%, decreasing average turnaround time by 9%, minimizing makespan time by 15%, and effectively overcoming average latency time within the network parameters. The proposed technique shows better results and responses than previous techniques by scheduling the tasks toward fog layers with less response time and minimizing the overall time from task submission to completion.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24030874","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,30]],"date-time":"2024-01-30T12:06:58Z","timestamp":1706616418000},"page":"874","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Internet of Vehicles (IoV)-Based Task Scheduling Approach Using Fuzzy Logic Technique in Fog Computing Enables Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Muhammad","family":"Ehtisham","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of IT, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8459-1471","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mahmood ul","family":"Hassan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Skills, Deanship of Preparatory Year, Najran University, Najran 66241, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amin A.","family":"Al-Awady","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Skills, Deanship of Preparatory Year, Najran University, Najran 66241, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2917-6598","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abid","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science, GANK(S) DC KTS, Haripur 22620, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5578-1129","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Junaid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of IT, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jahangir","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Applied College Mohyail Asir, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5083-4391","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yahya Ali","family":"Abdelrahman Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Systems, Faculty Computer Science and Information System, Najran University, Najran 66241, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2191-3461","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Akram","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, Najran 66241, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3181","DOI":"10.1109\/TMC.2020.2997460","article-title":"Fog computing empowered data dissemination in software defined heterogeneous vanets","volume":"20","author":"Liu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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