scholarly journals Multi-objective hybrid genetic algorithm for task scheduling problem in cloud computing

Author(s):  
Poria Pirozmand ◽  
Ali Asghar Rahmani Hosseinabadi ◽  
Maedeh Farrokhzad ◽  
Mehdi Sadeghilalimi ◽  
Seyedsaeid Mirkamali ◽  
...  

AbstractThe cloud computing systems are sorts of shared collateral structure which has been in demand from its inception. In these systems, clients are able to access existing services based on their needs and without knowing where the service is located and how it is delivered, and only pay for the service used. Like other systems, there are challenges in the cloud computing system. Because of a wide array of clients and the variety of services available in this system, it can be said that the issue of scheduling and, of course, energy consumption is essential challenge of this system. Therefore, it should be properly provided to users, which minimizes both the cost of the provider and consumer and the energy consumption, and this requires the use of an optimal scheduling algorithm. In this paper, we present a two-step hybrid method for scheduling tasks aware of energy and time called Genetic Algorithm and Energy-Conscious Scheduling Heuristic based on the Genetic Algorithm. The first step involves prioritizing tasks, and the second step consists of assigning tasks to the processor. We prioritized tasks and generated primary chromosomes, and used the Energy-Conscious Scheduling Heuristic model, which is an energy-conscious model, to assign tasks to the processor. As the simulation results show, these results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has been able to outperform other methods.

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Shih-Chia Chang ◽  
Ming-Tsang Lu ◽  
Tzu-Hui Pan ◽  
Chiao-Shan Chen

Although the electronic health (e-health) cloud computing system is a promising innovation, its adoption in the healthcare industry has been slow. This study investigated the adoption of e-health cloud computing systems in the healthcare industry and considered security functions, management, cloud service delivery, and cloud software for e-health cloud computing systems. Although numerous studies have determined factors affecting e-health cloud computing systems, few comprehensive reviews of factors and their relations have been conducted. Therefore, this study investigated the relations between the factors affecting e-health cloud computing systems by using a multiple criteria decision-making technique, in which decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), DANP (DEMATEL-based Analytic Network Process), and modified VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) approaches were combined. The intended level of adoption of an e-health cloud computing system could be determined by using the proposed approach. The results of a case study performed on the Taiwanese healthcare industry indicated that the cloud management function must be primarily enhanced and that cost effectiveness is the most significant factor in the adoption of e-health cloud computing. This result is valuable for allocating resources to decrease performance gaps in the Taiwanese healthcare industry.


Cloud computing is being heavily used for implementing different kinds of applications. Many of the client applications are being migrated to cloud for the reasons of cost and elasticity. Cloud computing is generally implemented on distributing computing wherein the Physical servers are heavily distributed considering both hardware and software, the connectivity among which is established through Internet. The cloud computing systems as such have many physical servers which contain many resources. The resources can be made to be shared among many users who are the tenants to the cloud computing system. The resources can be virtualized so as to provide shared resources to the clients. Scheduling is one of the most important task of a cloud computing system which is concerned with task scheduling, resource scheduling and scheduling Virtual Machin Migration. It is important to understand the issue of scheduling within a cloud computing system more in-depth so that any improvements with reference to scheduling can be investigated and implemented. For carrying in depth research, an OPEN source based cloud computing system is needed. OPEN STACK is one such OPEN source based cloud computing system that can be considered for experimenting the research findings that are related to cloud computing system. In this paper an overview on the way the Scheduling aspect per say has been implemented within OPEN STACK cloud computing system


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-46
Author(s):  
Azadeh Alebrahim ◽  
Denis Hatebur ◽  
Stephan Fassbender ◽  
Ludger Goeke ◽  
Isabelle Côté

To benefit from cloud computing and the advantages it offers, obstacles regarding the usage and acceptance of clouds have to be cleared. For cloud providers, one way to obtain customers' confidence is to establish security mechanisms when using clouds. The ISO 27001 standard provides general concepts for establishing information security in an organization. Risk analysis is an essential part in the ISO 27001 standard for achieving information security. This standard, however, contains ambiguous descriptions. In addition, it does not stipulate any method to identify assets, threats, and vulnerabilities. In this paper, the authors present a method for cloud computing systems to perform risk analysis according to the ISO 27001. The authors' structured method is tailored to SMEs. It relies upon patterns to describe context and structure of a cloud computing system, elicit security requirements, identify threats, and select controls, which ease the effort for these activities. The authors' method guides companies through the process of risk analysis in a structured manner. Furthermore, the authors provide a model-based tool for supporting the ISO 27001 standard certification. The authors' tool consists of various plug-ins for conducting different steps of their method.


Author(s):  
S. Rekha ◽  
C. Kalaiselvi

This paper studies the delay-optimal virtual machine (VM) scheduling problem in cloud computing systems, which have a constant amount of infrastructure resources such as CPU, memory and storage in the resource pool. The cloud computing system provides VMs as services to users. Cloud users request various types of VMs randomly over time and the requested VM-hosting durations vary vastly. A multi-level queue scheduling algorithm partitions the ready queue into several separate queues. The processes are permanently assigned to one queue, generally based on some property of the process, such as memory size, process priority or process type. Each queue has its own scheduling algorithm. Similarly, a process that waits too long in a lower-priority queue may be moved to a higher-priority queue. Multi-level queue scheduling is performed via the use of the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (MQPSO). It checks both Shortest-Job-First (SJF) buffering and Min-Min Best Fit (MMBF) scheduling algorithms, i.e., SJF-MMBF, is proposed to determine the solutions. Another scheme that combines the SJF buffering and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM)-based scheduling algorithms, i.e., SJF- ELM, is further proposed to avoid the potential of job starva¬tion in SJF-MMBF. In addition, there must be scheduling among the queues, which is commonly implemented as fixed-priority preemptive scheduling. The simulation results also illustrate that SJF- ELM is optimal in a heavy-loaded and highly dynamic environment and it is efficient in provisioning the average job hosting rate.


2012 ◽  
Vol 190-191 ◽  
pp. 360-363
Author(s):  
Xiao Yuan Qu ◽  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Hui Feng Xue

Analyzed integrated logical structure of the cloud, back-end cloud computing systems, tens of thousands of servers, how to organize such a large number of servers is the cloud computing system efficient and stable operation of one of the key issues. We surveyed the requirement of cloud computing networking. Analyzed the architecture of cloud computing networking topology, and thought that the networking topology should be composed of two parts the center switch trunk and some tree shape branch subnet. Then we proposed the Self Adaptive Algorithm for the center swish trunk’s topology design based on the graph theory, optimization theory and classic greedy algorithm. Finally we do some experiments and comparison to verify the algorithm’s usability and advantages.


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