Title
ERECT: Energy-efficient reactive scheduling for real-time tasks in heterogeneous virtualized clouds.
Abstract
High energy consumption in large-scale cloud data centers has become a burning issue, and efficient task and resource scheduling is an attractive way to cut down their energy consumption while providing satisfactory services for the customers. Unfortunately, existing scheduling approaches do not fully exploit the heterogeneity of real-tasks and physical hosts for maximum energy savings, while guaranteeing the timing requirements of real-time tasks. To solve the above problem, in this paper, we firstly develop a novel scheduling architecture that transforms the dynamic scheduling problem into multiple static schedules. Then, we propose an energy-efficient reactive scheduling algorithm, namely ERECT, to schedule the real-time tasks and computing resources in virtualized clouds. The proposed algorithm ERECT fully consider the heterogeneity of the real-time tasks and the hosts. In addition, when adding and deleting the virtual machines (VMs), the optimal operating frequencies and energy efficiencies of heterogeneous hosts are exploited to achieve energy conservation. Finally, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, extensive experiments are conducted to compare ERECT with two baseline scheduling algorithms in the context of Google traces. The experimental results show that ERECT outperforms those two existing algorithms in terms of guaranteeing tasks’ deadlines (up to 14.06%) and energy saving (up to 9.81%).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.jocs.2017.03.017
Journal of Computational Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reactive scheduling,Real-time task,Virtualized cloud,DVFS
Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling,Fair-share scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Two-level scheduling,Real-time computing,Schedule,Rate-monotonic scheduling,Dynamic priority scheduling,Round-robin scheduling,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
28
1877-7503
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
36
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huangke Chen133916.53
Guipeng Liu2121.52
shu yin330722.05
Xiaocheng Liu4735.33
Dishan Qiu5373.00