Improved QoS with Fog computing based on Adaptive Load Balancing Algorithm

As the number of sensing devices rises, traffic on the cloud servers is boosting day by day. When a device connected to the IoTwants access to data, cloud computing encourages the pairing of fog & cloud nodes to provide that information. One of the key needs in a fog-based cloud system, is efficient job scheduling to decrease the data delay and improve the QoS (Quality of Service). The researchers have used a variety of strategies to maintain the QoS criteria. However, because of the increased service delay caused by the busty traffic, job scheduling is impacted which leads to the unbalanced load on the fog environment. The proposed work uses a novel model which curates the features and working style of Genetic algorithm and the optimization algorithm with the load balancing scheduling on the fog nodes. The performance of the proposed hybrid model is contrasted with the other well-known algorithms in contrast to the fundamental benchmark optimization test functions. The proposed work displays better results in sustaining the task scheduling process when compared to the existing algorithms, which include Round Robin (RR) method, Hybrid RR, Hybrid Threshold based and Hybrid Predictive Based models, which ensures the efficacy of the proposed load balancing model to improve the quality of service in fog environment

A WOA-based optimization approach for task scheduling in cloud Computing systems

Task scheduling in cloud computing can directly affect the resource usage and operational cost of a system. To improve the efficiency of task executions in a cloud, various metaheuristic algorithms, as well as their variations, have been proposed to optimize the scheduling. In this work, for the first time, we apply the latest metaheuristics WOA (the whale optimization algorithm) for cloud task scheduling with a multiobjective optimization model, aiming at improving the performance of a cloud system with given computing resources. On that basis, we propose an advanced approach called IWC (Improved WOA for Cloud task scheduling) to further improve the optimal solution search capability of the WOA-based method. We present the detailed implementation of IWC and our simulation-based experiments show that the proposed IWC has better convergence speed and accuracy in searching for the optimal task scheduling plans, compared to the current metaheuristic algorithms. Moreover, it can also achieve better performance on system resource utilization, in the presence of both small and large-scale tasks

A Genetic Algorithm for Power-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation in Private Cloud

Energy efficiency has become an important measurement of scheduling algorithm for private cloud. The challenge is trade-off between minimizing of energy consumption and satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) (e.g. performance or resource availability on time for reservation request). We consider resource needs in context of a private cloud system to provide resources for applications in teaching and researching. In which users request computing resources for laboratory classes at start times and non-interrupted duration in some hours in prior. Many previous works are based on migrating techniques to move online virtual machines (VMs) from low utilization hosts and turn these hosts off to reduce energy consumption. However, the techniques for migration of VMs could not use in our case. In this paper, a genetic algorithm for power-aware in scheduling of resource allocation (GAPA) has been proposed to solve the static virtual machine allocation problem (SVMAP). Due to limited resources (i.e. memory) for executing simulation, we created a workload that contains a sample of one-day timetable of lab hours in our university. We evaluate the GAPA and a baseline scheduling algorithm (BFD), which sorts list of virtual machines in start time (i.e. earliest start time first) and using best-fit decreasing (i.e. least increased power consumption) algorithm, for solving the same SVMAP. As a result, the GAPA algorithm obtains total energy consumption is lower than the baseline algorithm on simulated experimentation.Comment: 10 page