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  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,499 Views
21 Pages

Energy Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling in Data Centers

  • Yeliang Qiu,
  • Congfeng Jiang,
  • Yumei Wang,
  • Dongyang Ou,
  • Youhuizi Li and
  • Jian Wan

17 February 2019

Power consumption is a primary concern in modern servers and data centers. Due to varying in workload types and intensities, different servers may have a different energy efficiency (EE) and energy proportionality (EP) even while having the same hard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
730 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2025

To reduce the significant energy consumption in data centers, virtual machine scheduling optimization and server consolidation are deployed. However, existing server power load (SPL) models typically adopt linear approximations for model developments...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,536 Views
6 Pages

One of the Internet’s fastest-growing technologies is cloud computing, which needs each user to share various resources and virtual computers to access the services they demand. The difficulty is in allocating the user’s tasks among the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,856 Views
25 Pages

2 December 2024

This paper introduces a novel model for virtual machine (VM) requests with predefined start and end times, referred to as scheduled virtual machine demands (SVMs). In cloud computing environments, SVMs represent anticipated resource requirements deri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,471 Views
15 Pages

Optimized Task Group Aggregation-Based Overflow Handling on Fog Computing Environment Using Neural Computing

  • Harwant Singh Arri,
  • Ramandeep Singh,
  • Sudan Jha,
  • Deepak Prashar,
  • Gyanendra Prasad Joshi and
  • Ill Chul Doo

7 October 2021

It is a non-deterministic challenge on a fog computing network to schedule resources or jobs in a manner that increases device efficacy and throughput, diminishes reply period, and maintains the system well-adjusted. Using Machine Learning as a compo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,972 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2022

Financial costs and energy savings are considered to be more critical on average for computationally intensive workflows, as such workflows which generally require extended execution times, and thus, require efficient energy consumption and entail a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,220 Views
24 Pages

Balancer Genetic Algorithm—A Novel Task Scheduling Optimization Approach in Cloud Computing

  • Rohail Gulbaz,
  • Abdul Basit Siddiqui,
  • Nadeem Anjum,
  • Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi,
  • Turke Althobaiti and
  • Naeem Ramzan

6 July 2021

Task scheduling is one of the core issues in cloud computing. Tasks are heterogeneous, and they have intensive computational requirements. Tasks need to be scheduled on Virtual Machines (VMs), which are resources in a cloud environment. Due to the im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,930 Views
13 Pages

Dynamic Job Scheduling Strategy Using Jobs Characteristics in Cloud Computing

  • Mohammed A. Alsaih,
  • Rohaya Latip,
  • Azizol Abdullah,
  • Shamala K. Subramaniam and
  • Kamal Ali Alezabi

6 October 2020

A crucial performance concern in distributed decentralized environments, like clouds, is how to guarantee that jobs complete their execution within the estimated completion times using the available resources’ bandwidth fairly and efficiently w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,233 Views
26 Pages

Time Series-Based Edge Resource Prediction and Parallel Optimal Task Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing Environment

  • Sasmita Rani Behera,
  • Niranjan Panigrahi,
  • Sourav Kumar Bhoi,
  • Kshira Sagar Sahoo,
  • N.Z. Jhanjhi and
  • Rania M. Ghoniem

27 March 2023

The offloading of computationally intensive tasks to edge servers is indispensable in the mobile edge computing (MEC) environment. Once the tasks are offloaded, the subsequent challenges lie in buffering them and assigning them to edge virtual machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,652 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2018

Cloud computing systems are popular in computing industry for their ease of use and wide range of applications. These systems offer services that can be used over the Internet. Due to their wide popularity and usage, cloud computing systems and their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,308 Views
26 Pages

QoS-Aware Cost Minimization Strategy for AMI Applications in Smart Grid Using Cloud Computing

  • Asfandyar Khan,
  • Arif Iqbal Umar,
  • Syed Hamad Shirazi,
  • Waqar Ishaq,
  • Mohsin Shah,
  • Muhammad Assam and
  • Abdullah Mohamed

30 June 2022

Cloud computing coupled with Internet of Things technology provides a wide range of cloud services such as memory, storage, computational processing, network bandwidth, and database application to the end users on demand over the Internet. More speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,154 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2024

The question of how to simultaneously perform frequency regulation and integrated economic scheduling for microgrids with low-inertia islanding operation under communication constraints is a difficult problem that needs to be solved for many current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,992 Views
22 Pages

A Genetic Algorithm-Based Virtual Machine Allocation Policy for Load Balancing Using Actual Asymmetric Workload Traces

  • Insha Naz,
  • Sameena Naaz,
  • Parul Agarwal,
  • Bhavya Alankar,
  • Farheen Siddiqui and
  • Javed Ali

5 May 2023

Load balancing is a very important concept in cloud computing. In this work, studies are conducted on workload traces at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL). The jobs in this trace are asymmetric in nature as most of them have small time limit. Two hybrid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,134 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient Dynamic-Decision Based Task Scheduler for Task Offloading Optimization and Energy Management in Mobile Cloud Computing

  • Abid Ali,
  • Muhammad Munawar Iqbal,
  • Harun Jamil,
  • Faiza Qayyum,
  • Sohail Jabbar,
  • Omar Cheikhrouhou,
  • Mohammed Baz and
  • Faisal Jamil

1 July 2021

Restricted abilities of mobile devices in terms of storage, computation, time, energy supply, and transmission causes issues related to energy optimization and time management while processing tasks on mobile phones. This issue pertains to multifario...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,036 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2022

This paper deals with the challenging problem of scheduling users’ tasks, while taking into consideration users’ quality of service (QoS) requirements, with the objective of reducing the energy consumption of physical machines. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,617 Views
46 Pages

5 July 2025

Cloud computing is a virtualized and distributed computing model that provides resources and services based on demand and self-service. Resource failure is one of the major challenges in cloud computing, and there is a need for fault tolerance mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,961 Views
21 Pages

In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing model, virtualized computing resources in the form of virtual machines are provided over the Internet. A user can rent an arbitrary number of computing resources to meet their requirements, making cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,820 Views
15 Pages

Efficient Prioritization and Processor Selection Schemes for HEFT Algorithm: A Makespan Optimizer for Task Scheduling in Cloud Environment

  • Sachi Gupta,
  • Sailesh Iyer,
  • Gaurav Agarwal,
  • Poongodi Manoharan,
  • Abeer D. Algarni,
  • Ghadah Aldehim and
  • Kaamran Raahemifar

16 August 2022

Cloud computing is one of the most commonly used infrastructures for carrying out activities using virtual machines known as processing units. One of the most fundamental issues with cloud computing is task scheduling. The optimal determination of sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,654 Views
13 Pages

Adaptive Incremental Genetic Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Environments

  • Kairong Duan,
  • Simon Fong,
  • Shirley W. I. Siu,
  • Wei Song and
  • Steven Sheng-Uei Guan

17 May 2018

Cloud computing is a new commercial model that enables customers to acquire large amounts of virtual resources on demand. Resources including hardware and software can be delivered as services and measured by specific usage of storage, processing, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,664 Views
26 Pages

26 January 2023

Task scheduling in the cloud computing paradigm poses a challenge for researchers as the workloads that come onto cloud platforms are dynamic and heterogeneous. Therefore, scheduling these heterogeneous tasks to the appropriate virtual resources is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,826 Views
29 Pages

Workflow scheduling is one of the significant issues for scientific applications among virtual machine migration, database management, security, performance, fault tolerance, server consolidation, etc. In this paper, existing time-based scheduling al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
391 Views
22 Pages

2 December 2025

To address the integrated scheduling problem involving no-wait constraints between processes in the actual production of complex products with both symmetric and asymmetric branches, and the need for cross-workshop equipment network collaboration and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,297 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2022

Production scheduling is the key to manufacturing process decision support, which directly affects the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises. The production process of discrete workshops is complex and changeable, and it is usually difficult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,449 Views
23 Pages

30 July 2025

Workflow scheduling in cloud computing is attracting increasing attention. Cloud computing can assign tasks to available virtual machine resources in cloud data centers according to scheduling strategies, providing a powerful computing platform for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,512 Views
19 Pages

A Virtual Network Resource Allocation Framework Based on SR-IOV

  • Zhiyong Ye,
  • Yuanchang Zhong and
  • Yingying Wei

2 January 2019

The workload of a data center has the characteristics of complexity and requirement variability. However, in reality, the attributes of network workloads are rarely used by resource schedulers. Failure to dynamically schedule network resources accord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,192 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2021

As Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices are becoming increasingly popular in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the orchestration and management of numerous fog devices encounter a scalability problem. I...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,850 Views
29 Pages

Survey on Secure Scientific Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Environments

  • Hadeel Amjed Saeed,
  • Sufyan T. Faraj Al-Janabi,
  • Esam Taha Yassen and
  • Omar A. Aldhaibani

21 January 2025

In cloud computing environments, the representation and management of data through workflows are crucial to ensuring efficient processing. This paper focuses on securing scientific workflow scheduling, which involves executing complex data-processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,732 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Data Management Scheme in Cloud for Micromachines

  • Gurwinder Singh,
  • Rathinaraja Jeyaraj,
  • Anil Sharma and
  • Anand Paul

8 September 2023

In cyber-physical systems (CPS), micromachines are typically deployed across a wide range of applications, including smart industry, smart healthcare, and smart cities. Providing on-premises resources for the storage and processing of huge data colle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,175 Views
31 Pages

10 February 2025

Cloud computing, a superset of heterogeneous distributed computing, allows sharing of geographically dispersed resources across multiple organizations on a rental basis using virtualization as per demand. In cloud computing, workflow allocation to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,032 Views
21 Pages

31 March 2018

Cloud computing has emerged as a high-performance computing environment with a large pool of abstracted, virtualized, flexible, and on-demand resources and services. Scheduling of scientific workflows in a distributed environment is a well-known NP-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,122 Views
14 Pages

KHV: KVM-Based Heterogeneous Virtualization

  • Chunqiang Li,
  • Ren Guo,
  • Xianting Tian and
  • Huibin Wang

22 August 2022

A KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is subject to the complexity of the Linux kernel and the difficulty and cost of safety certification; thus, it is not popularized in embedded high-reliability scenarios. This paper proposes a KVM-based Heterogeneo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,462 Views
16 Pages

Effective scheduling of multiple agricultural machines in emergencies can reduce crop losses to a great extent. In this paper, cooperative scheduling based on deep reinforcement learning for multi-agricultural machines with deadlines is designed to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,747 Views
17 Pages

Energy-Efficient Load Balancing Algorithm for Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers Using Queuing and Thresholds

  • Nimra Malik,
  • Muhammad Sardaraz,
  • Muhammad Tahir,
  • Babar Shah,
  • Gohar Ali and
  • Fernando Moreira

23 June 2021

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing technology that has been implemented in various fields in recent years, such as business, research, industry, and computing. Cloud computing provides different services over the internet, thus eliminating the need...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,830 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2022

Mobile edge computing (MEC) sinks the functions and services of cloud computing to the edge of the network to provide users with storage and computing resources. For workflow tasks, the interdependency and the sequence constraint being among the task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,867 Views
16 Pages

A Framework for Proactive Resource Provisioning in IaaS Clouds

  • Yi-Hsuan Lee,
  • Kuo-Chan Huang,
  • Cheng-Hsien Wu,
  • Yen-Hsuan Kuo and
  • Kuan-Chou Lai

31 July 2017

Cloud computing is an emerging technology for rapidly provisioning and releasing resources on-demand from a shared resource pool. When big data is analyzed/mined on the cloud platform, the efficiency of resource provisioning would affect the system p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
6,115 Views
23 Pages

HWACOA Scheduler: Hybrid Weighted Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

  • Chirag Chandrashekar,
  • Pradeep Krishnadoss,
  • Vijayakumar Kedalu Poornachary,
  • Balasundaram Ananthakrishnan and
  • Kumar Rangasamy

8 March 2023

With the advancement of technology and time, people have always sought to solve problems in the most efficient and quickest way possible. Since the introduction of the cloud computing environment along with many different sub-substructures such as ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,665 Views
29 Pages

20 March 2021

In remote procedure call (RPC)-based graphic processing unit (GPU) virtualization environments, GPU tasks requested by multiple-user virtual machines (VMs) are delivered to the VM owning the GPU and are processed in a multi-process form. However, bec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
12,071 Views
23 Pages

4 March 2024

Dynamic load balancing in cloud computing is crucial for efficiently distributing workloads across available resources, ensuring optimal performance. This research introduces a novel dynamic load-balancing approach that leverages a deep learning mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
12,928 Views
19 Pages

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Task Scheduling in IoT Edge Computing

  • Shuran Sheng,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Zhimin Chen,
  • Lenan Wu and
  • Yuxuan Yao

28 February 2021

Edge computing (EC) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that supports resource-hungry Internet of Things (IoT) applications with low latency services at the network edge. However, the limited capacity of computing resources at the edge serve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,709 Views
18 Pages

Improving reliability is one of the major concerns of scientific workflow scheduling in clouds. The ever-growing computational complexity and data size of workflows present challenges to fault-tolerant workflow scheduling. Therefore, it is essential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,056 Views
19 Pages

DAG Hierarchical Schedulability Analysis for Avionics Hypervisor in Multicore Processors

  • Huan Yang,
  • Shuai Zhao,
  • Xiangnan Shi,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Yangming Guo

21 February 2023

Parallel hierarchical scheduling of multicore processors in avionics hypervisor is being studied. Parallel hierarchical scheduling utilizes modular reasoning about the temporal behavior of the upper Virtual Machine (VM) by partitioning CPU time. Dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,747 Views
21 Pages

MONWS: Multi-Objective Normalization Workflow Scheduling for Cloud Computing

  • Vamsheedhar Reddy Pillareddy and
  • Ganesh Reddy Karri

13 January 2023

Cloud computing is a prominent approach for complex scientific and business workflow applications in the pay-as-you-go model. Workflow scheduling poses a challenge in cloud computing due to its widespread applications in physics, astronomy, bioinform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
29 Pages

14 January 2026

Cloud computing covers a wide range of practical applications and diverse domains, yet resource scheduling and task scheduling remain significant challenges. To address this, different task scheduling algorithms are implemented across various computi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,430 Views
13 Pages

A Cost-Optimized Data Parallel Task Scheduling with Deadline Constraints in Cloud

  • N. R. Rajalakshmi,
  • Ankur Dumka,
  • Manoj Kumar,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Anita Gehlot,
  • Shaik Vaseem Akram,
  • Divya Anand,
  • Dalia H. Elkamchouchi and
  • Irene Delgado Noya

Large-scale distributed systems have the advantages of high processing speeds and large communication bandwidths over the network. The processing of huge real-world data within a time constraint becomes tricky, due to the complexity of data parallel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
7,778 Views
15 Pages

Digital Twin for Operation of Microgrid: Optimal Scheduling in Virtual Space of Digital Twin

  • Hyang-A Park,
  • Gilsung Byeon,
  • Wanbin Son,
  • Hyung-Chul Jo,
  • Jongyul Kim and
  • Sungshin Kim

20 October 2020

Due to the recent development of information and communication technology (ICT), various studies using real-time data are now being conducted. The microgrid research field is also evolving to enable intelligent operation of energy management through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,167 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of a Collaborative Scheduling Model Applied in a Job Shop Manufacturing Environment

  • Leonilde R. Varela,
  • Cátia F. V. Alves,
  • André S. Santos,
  • Gaspar G. Vieira,
  • Nuno Lopes and
  • Goran D. Putnik

30 November 2022

Collaborative Manufacturing Scheduling (CMS) is not yet a properly explored decision making practice, although its potential for being currently explored, in the digital era, by combining efforts among a set of entities, either persons or machines, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,217 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2020

In many nations, limited power from providers and an increase in demand for electricity have created new opportunities that can be used by home energy management systems (HEMSs) systems to enforce proper use of energy. This paper presents a virtual i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,167 Views
10 Pages

6 September 2018

The cloud-computing concept has emerged as a powerful mechanism for data storage by providing a suitable platform for data centers. Recent studies show that the energy consumption of cloud computing systems is a key issue. Therefore, we should reduce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,371 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2023

Kubernetes, known for its versatility in infrastructure management, rapid scalability, and ease of deployment, makes it an excellent platform for edge computing. However, its native scheduling algorithm struggles with load balancing, especially durin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
714 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2025

In the context of post-pandemic remote work normalization and the emergence of the metaverse, virtual workspaces have attracted significant attention as critical digital infrastructure with promising application prospects. While virtual workspaces en...

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