Title
A metaheuristic method for joint task scheduling and virtual machine placement in cloud data centers
Abstract
The virtual machine (VM) allocation problem is one of the main issues in cloud data centers. This article proposes a new metaheuristic method to optimize joint task scheduling and VM placement (JTSVMP) in cloud data center. The JTSVMP problem, though composed of two parts, namely task scheduling and VM placement, is treated as a joint problem to be resolved by using metaheuristic optimization algorithms (MOAs). The proposed co-optimization process aims to schedule task into the VM which has the least execution cost within deadline constraint and then to place the selected VM on most utilized physical host (PH) within capacity constraint. To evaluate the performance of our proposed co-optimization process, we compare the performances of two different scenarios, i.e., task scheduling algorithms and integrateion co-optimization of task scheduling and VM placement using MOAs, namely the basic glowworm swarm optimization (GSO), moth-flame glowworm swarm optimization (MFGSO) and genetic algorithm (GA). Simulation results show that optimizing joint task scheduling and VM placement leads to better overall results in terms of minimizing execution cost, makespan and degree of imbalance and maximizing PHs resource utilization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.future.2020.08.036
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud,Data center,Metaheuristic,Task scheduling,Virtual machine placement
Journal
115
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-739X
5
0.46
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dabiah Ahmed Alboaneen171.84
Hugo Tianfield250.46
yan zhang36720.55
Bernardi Pranggono4424.72