Title
Cost Efficient Scheduling for Delay-Sensitive Tasks in Edge Computing System
Abstract
Edge computing, as an emerging computing model, can offload delay-sensitive computing tasks from Internet of Thing (IoT) devices with limited computing resources and energy to the edge cloud. In the edge computing system, several servers are placed on the network edge near the IoT devices to process the offloaded tasks. A key issue in edge computing system is how to reduce the system cost while completing the offloaded tasks. In this paper, we study the task scheduling problem to reduce the cost of edge computing system. We model the task scheduling problem as an optimization problem, where the objective is to minimize the system cost while satisfying the delay requirements of all the tasks. Then, we prove that the proposed optimization problem is NP-hard. To solve this optimization problem effectively, we propose a task scheduling algorithm, called Two-stage Task Scheduling Cost Optimization (TTSCO). We validate the effectiveness of our algorithm by comparing with optimal solutions. The results show that the approximate ratio is less than 1.2 for 95% of the data sets we use. Performance evaluation shows that our algorithm can effectively reduce the cost of edge computing system while satisfying the delay requirements of all the tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SCC.2018.00017
2018 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
edge computing,task scheduling,delay-sensitive tasks,cost efficiency
Edge computing,Job shop scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Server,Edge device,Optimization problem,Cost efficiency,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-8137
978-1-5386-7251-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yongchao Zhang17915.56
Chen Xin2625120.92
Ying Chen314121.89
Zhuo Li418737.36
Jiwei Huang517725.99