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Task scheduling in cloud environment: optimization, security prioritization and processor selection schemes

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Tao Hai
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Jincheng Zhou *
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Dayang N. A. Jawawi
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Dan Wang
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Uzoma Ifeanyi Oduah *
C
Cresantus Biamba *
S
Sanjiv Jain
DOI:10.1186/s13677-022-00374-7delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Cloud computing is an extremely important infrastructure used to perform tasks over processing units. Despite its numerous benefits, a cloud platform has several challenges preventing it from carrying out an efficient workflow submission. One of these is linked to task scheduling. An optimization problem related to this is the maximal determination of cloud computing scheduling criteria. Existing methods have been unable to find the quality of service (QoS) limits of users- like meeting the economic restrictions and reduction of the makespan. Of all these methods, the Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time (HEFT) algorithm produces the maximum outcomes for scheduling tasks in a heterogeneous environment in a reduced time. Reviewed literature proves that HEFT is efficient in terms of execution time and quality of schedule. The HEFT algorithm makes use of average communication and computation costs as weights in the DAG. In some cases, however, the average cost of computation and selecting the first empty slot may not be enough for a good solution to be produced. In this paper, we propose different HEFT algorithm versions altered to produce improved results. In the first stage (rank generation), we execute several methodologies to calculate the ranks, and in the second stage, we alter how the empty slots are selected for the task scheduling. These alterations do not add any cost to the primary HEFT algorithm, and reduce the makespan of the virtual machines' workflow submissions. Our findings suggest that the altered versions of the HEFT algorithm have a better performance than the basic HEFT algorithm regarding decreased schedule length of the workflow problems.
Keywords:
HEFT Algorithm
Cloud Computing
Task Scheduling
NP-complete

Journal

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Journal of Cloud Computing-Advances Systems and Applications
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4.3
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732
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2.2K

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qiannan normal university of nationalities
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317
Papers: 344
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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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1.4W
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Citations: 85