Performance and Energy-Aware Bi-objective Tasks Scheduling for Cloud Data Centers

TL;DR

This paper introduces a bi-objective evolutionary algorithm for cloud data center task scheduling that balances performance and energy consumption, demonstrating improved results over existing methods.

Contribution

It presents a novel multi-objective optimization algorithm using system performance counters for the first time in cloud task scheduling.

Findings

Higher performance achieved

Lower energy consumption demonstrated

Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms

Abstract

Cloud computing enables remote execution of users tasks. The pervasive adoption of cloud computing in smart cities services and applications requires timely execution of tasks adhering to Quality of Services (QoS). However, the increasing use of computing servers exacerbates the issues of high energy consumption, operating costs, and environmental pollution. Maximizing the performance and minimizing the energy in a cloud data center is challenging. In this paper, we propose a performance and energy optimization bi-objective algorithm to tradeoff the contradicting performance and energy objectives. An evolutionary algorithm-based multi-objective optimization is for the first time proposed using system performance counters. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated using a realistic cloud dataset in a cloud computing environment. Our experimental results achieve higher performance and lower energy consumption compared to a state of the art algorithm.