An Effective Cloud Workflow Scheduling Approach Combining PSO and Idle Time Slot-Aware Rules

Workflow scheduling is a key issue and remains a challenging problem in cloud computing.Faced with the large number of virtual machine(VM)types offered by cloud providers,cloud users need to choose the most appropriate VM type for each task.Multiple task scheduling sequences exist in a workflow application.Different task scheduling sequences have a significant impact on the scheduling performance.It is not easy to determine the most appropriate set of VM types for tasks and the best task scheduling sequence.Besides,the idle time slots on VM instances should be used fully to increase resources'utilization and save the execution cost of a workflow.This paper considers these three aspects simultaneously and proposes a cloud workflow scheduling approach which combines particle swarm optimization(PSO)and idle time slot-aware rules,to minimize the execution cost of a workflow application under a deadline constraint.A new particle encoding is devised to represent the VM type required by each task and the scheduling sequence of tasks.An idle time slot-aware decoding procedure is proposed to decode a particle into a scheduling solution.To handle tasks'invalid priorities caused by the randomness of PSO,a repair method is used to repair those priorities to produce valid task scheduling sequences.The proposed approach is compared with state-of-the-art cloud workflow scheduling algorithms.Experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms the comparative algorithms in terms of both of the execution cost and the success rate in meeting the deadline.     

A security and cost aware scheduling algorithm for heterogeneous tasks of scientific workflow in clouds

Security is increasingly critical for various scientific workflows that are big data applications and typically take quite amount of time being executed on large-scale distributed infrastructures. Cloud computing platform is such an infrastructure that can enable dynamic resource scaling on demand. Nevertheless, based on pay-per-use and hourly-based pricing model, users should pay attention to the cost incurred by renting virtual machines (VMs) from cloud data centers. Meanwhile, workflow tasks are generally heterogeneous and require different instance series (i.e., computing optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, etc.). In this paper, we propose a security and cost aware scheduling (SCAS) algorithm for heterogeneous tasks of scientific workflow in clouds. Our proposed algorithm is based on the meta-heuristic optimization technique, particle swarm optimization (PSO), the coding strategy of which is devised to minimize the total workflow execution cost while meeting the deadline and risk rate constraints. Extensive experiments using three real-world scientific workflow applications, as well as CloudSim simulation framework, demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of our algorithm.     

云中截止时间动态分配的工作流调度成本优化算法

现如今,如何在满足截止时间约束的前提下降低工作流的执行成本,是云中工作流调度的主要问题之一。三步列表调度算法可以有效解决这一问题。但该算法在截止时间分配阶段只能形成静态的子截止时间。为方便用户部署工作流任务,云服务商为用户提供了的三种实例类型,其中竞价实例具有非常大的价格优势。为解决上述问题,提出了截止时间动态分配的工作流调度成本优化算法(S-DTDA)。该算法利用粒子群算法对截止时间进行动态分配,弥补了三步列表调度算法的缺陷。在虚拟机选择阶段,该算法在候选资源中增加了竞价实例,大大降低了执行成本。实验结果表明,相较于其他经典算法,该算法在实验成功率和执行成本上具有明显优势。综上所述,S-DTDA算法可以有效解决工作流调度中截止时间约束的成本优化问题。     

适用于实例密集型云工作流的调度算法

工作流调度算法仅适用于单个复杂工作流实例,而不适用于实例密集型云工作流实例,为此,提出了基于实例密集型的云工作流调度算法(MCUD)。MCUD算法先对待处理的一组工作流实例进行分类,再对分类后的同类工作流实例采用一种新的分配方法将用户指定的总最后期限分配到各任务;同时,在调度的过程中动态地调整后续任务的子最后期限。MCUD算法对同类工作流实例中的任务分配不同子最后期限,减小了资源竞争,提高了资源的利用率。仿真实验表明,MCUD相比于其他算法,在满足总的最后期限的前提下更进一步地降低了执行成本和执行时间。     

基于自适应惩罚函数的云工作流调度协同进化遗传算法

云计算为大规模科学工作流应用的执行提供了更高效的运行环境。为了解决云环境中科学工作流调度的代价优化问题,提出了一种基于协同进化的工作流调度遗传算法CGAA。该算法将自适应惩罚函数引入严格约束的遗传算法中,通过协同进化的方法,自适应地调整种群个体的交叉与变异概率,以加速算法收敛并防止种群早熟。通过4种科学工作流的仿真实验结果表明,CGAA算法得到的调度方案在满足工作流调度截止时间约束与降低任务执行代价的综合性能方面优于同类型算法。     

A market-oriented hierarchical scheduling strategy in cloud workflow systems

A cloud workflow system is a type of platform service which facilitates the automation of distributed applications based on the novel cloud infrastructure. One of the most important aspects which differentiate a cloud workflow system from its other counterparts is the market-oriented business model. This is a significant innovation which brings many challenges to conventional workflow scheduling strategies. To investigate such an issue, this paper proposes a market-oriented hierarchical scheduling strategy in cloud workflow systems. Specifically, the service-level scheduling deals with the Task-to-Service assignment where tasks of individual workflow instances are mapped to cloud services in the global cloud markets based on their functional and non-functional QoS requirements; the task-level scheduling deals with the optimisation of the Task-to-VM (virtual machine) assignment in local cloud data centres where the overall running cost of cloud workflow systems will be minimised given the satisfaction of QoS constraints for individual tasks. Based on our hierarchical scheduling strategy, a package based random scheduling algorithm is presented as the candidate service-level scheduling algorithm and three representative metaheuristic based scheduling algorithms including genetic algorithm (GA), ant colony optimisation (ACO), and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) are adapted, implemented and analysed as the candidate task-level scheduling algorithms. The hierarchical scheduling strategy is being implemented in our SwinDeW-C cloud workflow system and demonstrating satisfactory performance. Meanwhile, the experimental results show that the overall performance of ACO based scheduling algorithm is better than others on three basic measurements: the optimisation rate on makespan, the optimisation rate on cost and the CPU time.     

混合计算环境中截止期约束下的科学工作流调度策略

整合云和网格基础设施,增强科研机构现有网格系统的计算能力并向应用提供截止时间保障的服务是科学研究领域的热点。在这种"网格-云"混合计算环境中,对何时租借云虚拟资源以及如何租借做出有效决策是一个难题。现有的一些调度策略主要在网格资源静态能力特征的基础上,以作业等待时间作为决策依据,缺乏对资源动态服务能力的有效评估,无法保证科学应用的截止时间需求。本文提出了一种混合环境下的科学工作流执行系统架构并对其核心组件进行了阐述。针对其中的工作流调度问题,利用随机服务模型建模已有网格系统中的资源的动态服务能力,以任务违约风险作为是否租借外部虚拟资源的判断指标,提出了一个科学工作流调度算法HCA_SASWD。实验结果表明,HCA_SASWD相对于其他算法,能有效保证用户的截止时间要求,为需要提供截止时间保障的系统架构提供了参考。     

A delay-based dynamic scheduling algorithm for bag-of-task workflows with stochastic task execution times in clouds

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) workflows are widespread in many big data analysis fields. However, there are very few cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms tailored for BoT workflows. Furthermore, existing algorithms fail to consider the stochastic task execution times of BoT workflows which leads to deadline violations and increased resource renting costs. In this paper, we propose a dynamic cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithm which aims to fulfill the workflow deadline by using the sum of task execution time expectation and standard deviation to estimate real task execution times. A bag-based delay scheduling strategy and a single-type based virtual machine interval renting method are presented to decrease the resource renting cost. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using a cloud simulator ElasticSim which is extended from CloudSim. The results show that the dynamic algorithm decreases the resource renting cost while guaranteeing the workflow deadline compared to the existing algorithms.     

A dynamic task scheduling framework based on chicken swarm and improved raven roosting optimization methods in cloud computing

Scheduling means devoting tasks among computational resources, considering specific goals. Cloud computing is facing a dynamic and rapidly evolving situation. Devoting tasks to the computational resources could be done in numerous different ways. As a consequence, scheduling of tasks in cloud computing is considered as a NP-hard problem. Meta-heuristic algorithms are a proper choice for improving scheduling in cloud computing, but they should, of course, be consistent with the dynamic situation in the field of cloud computing. One of the newest bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithms is the chicken swarm optimization (CSO) algorithm. This algorithm is inspired by the hierarchical behavior of chickens in a swarm for finding food. The diverse movements of the chickens create a balance between the local and the global search for finding the optimal solution. Raven roosting optimization (RRO) algorithm is inspired by the social behavior of raven and the information flow between the members of the population with the goal of finding food. The advantage of this algorithm lies in using the individual perception mechanism in the process of searching the problem space. In the current work, an ICDSF scheduling framework is proposed. It is a hybrid (IRRO-CSO) meta-heuristic approach based on the improved raven roosting optimization algorithm (IRRO) and the CSO algorithm. The CSO algorithm is used for its efficiency in satisfying the balance between the local and the global search, and IRRO algorithm is chosen for solving the problem of premature convergence and its better performance in bigger search spaces. First, the performance of the proposed hybrid IRRO-CSO algorithm is compared with other imitation-based swarm intelligence methods using benchmark functions (CEC 2017). Then, the capabilities of the proposed scheduling hybrid algorithm (IRRO-CSO) are tested using the NASA-iPSC parallel workload and are compared with the other available algorithms. The obtained results from the implementation of the hybrid IRRO-CSO algorithm in MATLAB show an improvement in the average best fitness compared with the following algorithms: IRRO, RRO, CSO, BAT and PSO. Finally, simulation tests performed in cloud computing environment show improvements in terms of reduction of execution time, reduction of response time and the increase in throughput by using the proposed hybrid IRRO-CSO approach for dynamic scheduling.     

一种云计算环境下的工作流双向调度方法

为降低云计算中工作流调度的时间和成本,提出了一种双向调度算法,以实现后向Backward和前向Forward的双向调度。首先,Backward算法按照每个任务的最迟开始时间进行后向调度;此基础上,为降低虚拟机调度费用,Forward算法尽可能地提前调度每个任务,且在前向调度过程中充分考虑到工作流deadline、最大cost及传输时间的限制,从而实现对虚拟机的动态调度。由实验可知,本算法比BDA算法以及ICPCP算法更节约虚拟机调度成本,提高了调度的灵活性。     

An intelligent water drops-based workflow scheduling for IaaS cloud

Cloud computing is an emerging technology in a distributed environment with a collection of large-scale heterogeneous systems. One of the challenging issues in the cloud data center is to select the minimum number of virtual machine (VM) instances to execute the tasks of a workflow within a time limit. The objectives of such a strategy are to minimize the total execution time of a workflow and improve resource utilization. However, the existing algorithms do not guarantee to achieve high resource utilization although they have abilities to achieve high execution efficiency. The higher resource utilization depends on the reusability of VM instances. In this work, we propose a new intelligent water drops based workflow scheduling algorithm for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. The objectives of the proposed algorithm are to achieve higher resource utilization and minimize the makespan within the given deadline and budget constraints. The first contribution of the algorithm is to find multiple partial critical paths (PCPs) of a workflow which helps in finding suitable VM instances. The second contribution is a scheduling strategy for PCP-VM assignment for assigning the VM instances. The proposed algorithm is evaluated through various simulation runs using synthetic datasets and various performance metrics. Through comparison, we show the superior performance of the proposed algorithm over the existing ones.     

一种多重约束下确保成功率的云工作流调度方法

为提高多重约束下的调度成功率,提出一种满足期限和预算双重约束的云工作流调度算法。将可行工作流调度方案求解分解为工作流结构分层、预算分配、期限分配、任务选择和实例选择。工作流结构分层将所有工作流任务划分层次形成包任务,以提高并行执行程度;预算分配对整体预算在层次间进行分割;期限分配将全局期限在不同层次间分割;任务选择基于任务最早开始时间确定优先级,得到任务调度次序;实例选择根据时间和代价均衡因子,获取任务执行最佳实例。仿真结果证明,该算法在调度成功率、同步优化工作流执行时间与执行代价上相较对比算法更好。     

混合云环境中数据敏感工作流调度

混合云环境下调度包含敏感数据的工作流主要考虑在满足数据安全性以及工作流截止时间的前提下,对工作流任务在混合云上进行分配,实现计算资源与任务的映射,并优化调度费用。采用了整数规划来建模求解包含数据敏感性、截止时间和调度费用3种约束条件的混合云工作流调度问题,同时为优化模型求解速度,基于“帕雷托最优”原理对工作流任务在混合云上的分配方案进行筛选以减小模型求解规模。实验表明,优先排除不合理的任务分配方案可有效减小整数规划模型的求解规模,缩短模型计算时间,在产生较小误差的情况下获得较优的调度结果。     

一种满足可靠性和能效的云工作流调度方法

为了同步解决云工作流调度时的失效和高能耗问题,提出一种基于可靠性和能效的工作流调度算法.算法为了在截止时间的QoS约束下最大化系统可靠性并最小化调度能耗,将工作流调度过程划分为四个阶段:计算任务优先级、工作流任务聚簇、截止时间子分配和任务调度.算法在满足执行次序的情况下对任务进行拓扑排序,并以通信代价最小为目标对任务进...     

Cloud workflow scheduling with hybrid resource provisioning

Resource provisioning strategies are crucial for workflow scheduling problems which are widespread in cloud computing. The main challenge lies in determining the amounts of reserved and on-demand resources to meet users’ requirements. In this paper, we consider the cloud workflow scheduling problem with hybrid resource provisioning to minimize the total renting cost, which is NP-hard and has not been studied yet. An iterative population-based meta-heuristic is developed. According to the shift vectors obtained during the search procedure, timetables are computed quickly. The appropriate amounts of reserved and on-demand resources are determined by an incremental optimization method. The utilization of each resource is balanced in a swaying way, in terms of which the probabilistic matrix is updated for the next iteration. The proposed algorithm is compared with modified existing algorithms for similar problems. Experimental results demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.     

Cost optimized Hybrid Genetic-Gravitational Search Algorithm for load scheduling in Cloud Computing

In cloud computing, cost optimization is a prime concern for load scheduling. The swarm based meta-heuristics are prominently used for load scheduling in distributed computing environment. The conventional load scheduling approaches require a lot of resources and strategies which are non-adaptive and static in the computation, thereby increasing the response time, waiting time and the total cost of computation. The swarm intelligence-based load scheduling is adaptive, intelligent, collective, random, decentralized, self-collective, stochastic and is based on biologically inspired mechanisms than the other conventional mechanisms. The genetic algorithm schedules the particles based on mutation and crossover techniques. The force and acceleration acting on the particle helps in the finding the velocity and position of the next particle. The best position of the particles is assigned to cloudlets to be executed on the virtual machines in the cloud. The paper proposes a new load scheduling technique, Hybrid Genetic-Gravitational Search Algorithm (HG-GSA) for reducing the total cost of computation. The total computational cost includes cost of execution and transfer. It works on hybrid crossover technique based gravitational search algorithm for searching the best position of the particle in the search space. The best position of the particle is used calculating the force. The HG-GSA is compared to the existing approaches in the CloudSim simulator. By the convergence and statistical analysis of the results, the proposed HG-GSA approach reduces the total cost of computation considerably as compared to existing PSO, Cloudy-GSA and LIGSA-C approaches.     

基于代价优化的云工作流调度改进PSO算法

云计算可以通过即付即用的方式向用户工作流提供资源。为了解决资源服务代价异构环境下的云工作流任务调度代价问题,提出一种基于改进粒子群算法的云工作流任务调度算法WSA-IPSO。通过综合考虑任务的执行代价和依赖任务间发生数据传输时的通信代价,算法将总代价优化问题形式化为有向无环图DAG中的任务调度模型,并提出基于改进粒子群算法的优化模型对其进行求解。通过改进传统粒子群算法的粒子速度更新策略和惯性权重更新策略,算法可以以更快的收敛速度得到代价最小化的调度方案。通过仿真实验,与MCT算法及标准粒子群算法进行性能比较。实验结果表明,WSA-IPSO算法在降低总代价、任务分布的负载均衡以及算法收敛性方面比较同类算法均表现出更好的性能。     

基于改进多目标布谷鸟搜索的资源调度算法

针对IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)云计算中资源调度的多目标优化问题,提出一种基于改进多目标布谷鸟搜索的资源调度算法。在多目标布谷鸟搜索算法的基础上,通过改进随机游走策略和丢弃概率策略提高了算法的局部搜索能力和收敛速度。以最大限度地减少完成时间和成本为主要目标,将任务分配特定的VM(Virtual Manufacturing)满足云用户对云提供商的资源利用的需求,从而减少延迟,提高资源利用率和服务质量。实验结果表明,该算法可以有效地解决IaaS云计算环境中资源调度的多目标问题,与其他算法相比,具有一定的优势。     

双层虚拟化云架构下任务调度能耗优化算法

虚拟机上部署容器的双层虚拟化云架构在云数据中心中的使用越来越广泛。为了解决该架构下云数据中心的能耗问题,提出了一种工作流任务调度算法TUMS-RTC。针对有截止时间约束的并行工作流,算法将调度过程划分为时间利用率最大化调度和运行时间压缩两个阶段。时间利用率最大化调度通过充分使用给定的时间范围减少完成工作流所需的虚拟机和服务器数量;运行时间压缩阶段通过压缩虚拟机空闲时间以缩短虚拟机和服务器的工作时间,最终达到降低能耗的目标。使用大量特征可控的随机工作流对TUMS-RTC算法的性能进行了测试。实验结果表明,TUMS-RTC算法相较于对比算法有更高的资源利用率,虚拟机数量减少率和能耗节省率,并且可以很好地处理云计算中规模大且并行度高的工作流。     

基于云科学工作流调度的代价与能效优化算法

为了降低云环境中科学工作流调度的执行代价与数据中心能耗,提出了一种基于能效感知的工作流调度代价最优化算法CWCO-EA。算法在满足截止时间约束下,以最小化工作流执行代价与降低能耗为目标,将工作流的任务调度划分为四步执行。首先,通过代价效用的概念设计虚拟机选择策略,实现了子makespan约束下的任务与最优虚拟机间的映射;其次,通过串行与并行任务合并策略,同步降低了工作流的执行代价与能耗;然后,通过空闲虚拟机重用机制,改善了租用虚拟机的利用率,进一步提高了能效;最后,通过任务松驰策略实现了租用虚拟机的能力回收,节省了能耗。通过四种科学工作流的仿真实验,结果表明,CWCO-EA算法比较同类型算法,在满足截止时间的同时,可以同步降低工作流的执行代价与执行能耗。