scholarly journals Development of a Hybrid Algorithm for efficient Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing environment using Artificial Intelligence

Author(s):  
Mohammed Yousuf Uddin ◽  
Hikmat Awad Abdeljaber ◽  
Tariq Ahamed Ahanger

Cloud computing is developing as a platform for next generation systems where users can pay as they use facilities of cloud computing like any other utilities. Cloud environment involves a set of virtual machines, which share the same computation facility and storage. Due to rapid rise in demand for cloud computing services several algorithms are being developed and experimented by the researchers in order to enhance the task scheduling process of the machines thereby offering optimal solution to the users by which the users can process the maximum number of tasks through minimal utilization of the resources. Task scheduling denotes a set of policies to regulate the task processed by a system. Virtual machine scheduling is essential for effective operations in distributed environment. The aim of this paper is to achieve efficient task scheduling of virtual machines, this study proposes a hybrid algorithm through integrating two prominent heuristic algorithms namely the BAT Algorithm and the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm in order to optimize the virtual machine scheduling process. The performance evaluation of the three algorithms (BAT, ACO and Hybrid) reveal that the hybrid algorithm performs better when compared with that of the other two algorithms.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1046 ◽  
pp. 508-511
Author(s):  
Jian Rong Zhu ◽  
Yi Zhuang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Wei Zhu

How to reduce energy consumption while improving utility of datacenter is one of the key technologies in the cloud computing environment. In this paper, we use energy consumption and utility of data center as objective functions to set up a virtual machine scheduling model based on multi-objective optimization VMSA-MOP, and design a virtual machine scheduling algorithm based on NSGA-2 to solve the model. Experimental results show that compared with other virtual machine scheduling algorithms, our algorithm can obtain relatively optimal scheduling results.


Author(s):  
Nadim Rana ◽  
Muhammad Shafie Abd Latiff ◽  
Shafi'i Muhammad Abdulhamid

Virtual machine scheduling in the cloud is considered one of the major issue to solve optimal resource allocation problem on the heterogeneous datacenters. With respect to that, the key concern is to map the virtual machines (VMs) with physical machines (PMs) in a way that maximum resource utilization can be achieved with minimum cost. Due to the fact that scheduling is an NP-hard problem, a metaheuristic approach is proven to achieve a better optimal solution to solve this problem. In a rapid changing heterogeneous environment, where millions of resources can be allocated and deallocate in a fraction of the time, modern metaheuristic algorithms perform well due to its immense power to solve the multidimensional problem with fast convergence speed. This paper presents a conceptual framework for solving multi-objective VM scheduling problem using novel metaheuristic Whale optimization algorithm (WOA). Further, we present the problem formulation for the framework to achieve multi-objective functions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155014771769489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guowen Xing ◽  
Xiaolong Xu ◽  
Haolong Xiang ◽  
Shengjun Xue ◽  
Sai Ji ◽  
...  

With the rapid resource requirements of Internet of Things applications, cloud computing technology is regarded as a promising paradigm for resource provision. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of cloud services, it is essential to improve the resource fairness and achieve energy savings. However, it is still a challenge to schedule the virtual machines in an energy-efficient manner while taking into consideration the resource fairness. In view of this challenge, a fair energy-efficient virtual machine scheduling method for Internet of Things applications is designed in this article. Specifically, energy and fairness are analyzed in a formal way. Then, a virtual machine scheduling method is proposed to achieve the energy efficiency and further improve the resource fairness during the executions of Internet of Things applications. Finally, experimental evaluation demonstrates the validity of our proposed method.


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