Locust Inspired Algorithm for Cloudlet Scheduling in Cloud Computing Environments

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that offers flexible and seamless services for users based on their needs, including user budget savings. However, the involvement of a vast number of cloud users has made the scheduling of users’ tasks (i.e., cloudlets) a challenging issue in selecting suitab...

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Autores principales: Mohammed Alaa Ala’anzy, Mohamed Othman, Zurina Mohd Hanapi, Mohamed A. Alrshah
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8d51c0b4127d4795b44dbe1bd0297be5
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Sumario:Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that offers flexible and seamless services for users based on their needs, including user budget savings. However, the involvement of a vast number of cloud users has made the scheduling of users’ tasks (i.e., cloudlets) a challenging issue in selecting suitable data centres, servers (hosts), and virtual machines (VMs). Cloudlet scheduling is an NP-complete problem that can be solved using various meta-heuristic algorithms, which are quite popular due to their effectiveness. Massive user tasks and rapid growth in cloud resources have become increasingly complex challenges; therefore, an efficient algorithm is necessary for allocating cloudlets efficiently to attain better execution times, resource utilisation, and waiting times. This paper proposes a cloudlet scheduling, locust inspired algorithm to reduce the average makespan and waiting time and to boost VM and server utilisation. The CloudSim toolkit was used to evaluate our algorithm’s efficiency, and the obtained results revealed that our algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art nature-inspired algorithms, improving the average makespan, waiting time, and resource utilisation.