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A novel task scheduling scheme in a cloud computing environment using hybrid biogeography-based optimization

Soft Computing volume 23, pages 11035–11054 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

Task scheduling, which plays a crucial role in cloud computing and is the critical factor influencing the performance of cloud computing, is an NP-hard problem that can be solved with a heuristic algorithm. In this paper, we propose a novel heuristic algorithm, called biogeography-based optimization (BBO), and a new hybrid migrating BBO (HMBBO) algorithm, which integrates the migration strategy with particle swarm optimization (PSO). Both methods are proposed to solve the problem of scheduling-directed acyclic graph tasks in a cloud computing environment. The basic idea of our approach is to exploit the advantages of the PSO and BBO algorithms while avoiding their drawbacks. In HMBBO, the flight strategy under the BBO migration structure is hybridized to accelerate the search speed, and HEFT_D is used to evaluate the task sequence. Based on the WorkflowSim, a comparative experiment is conducted with the makespan of task scheduling as the objective function. In HMBBO, the flight strategy under the BBO migration structure is hybridized to accelerate the search speed, and HEFT_D is used to evaluate the task sequence. Based on the WorkflowSim, a comparative experiment is conducted with the makespan of task scheduling as the objective function. Both simulation and real-life experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of HMBBO. The experiment shows that compared with several classic heuristic algorithms, HMBBO has advantages in terms of global search ability, fast convergence rate and a high-quality solution, and it provides a new method for task scheduling in cloud computing.

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The research was partially funded by the Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61502165), the National Outstanding Youth Science Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61625202).

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  1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410012, China

    Zhao Tong, Hongjian Chen & Xiaomei Deng

  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, China

    Kenli Li & Keqin Li

  3. National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, China

    Kenli Li & Keqin Li

  4. Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, 12561, USA

    Keqin Li

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Tong, Z., Chen, H., Deng, X. et al. A novel task scheduling scheme in a cloud computing environment using hybrid biogeography-based optimization. Soft Comput 23, 11035–11054 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3657-0

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Keywords

  • Biogeography-based optimization
  • Cloud computing
  • Directed acyclic graph
  • Task scheduling
  • WorkflowSim