An energy-efficient reliable grid scheduling model using NSGA-II. (July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaushik, Achal; Vidyarthi, Deo
• Is Part Of: Engineering with computers. Volume 32:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 355
• Page End: 376
• Publication Date: 2016-07
• Subjects: Computational grid -- Scheduling -- Reliability -- Load -- Energy consumption -- NSGA-II; Engineering design -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Computer-aided design -- Periodicals; Conception technique -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Conception assistée par ordinateur -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 620.00285
• DOI: 10.1007/s00366-015-0419-9
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0177-0667

Abstract

Abstract Job scheduling in computational grid is a complex problem and various heuristics and meta-heuristics have been proposed for the same. These approaches usually optimize specific characteristic parameters while allocating the jobs on the grid resources. Many a times, it is desired to optimize multiple parameters during job scheduling. Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) has been observed to be the best meta-heuristic to solve such multi-objective optimization problem. The proposed work applies NSGA-II for job scheduling in computational grid with three conflicting objectives: maximizing reliability of the system for job allocation, minimizing energy consumption and balancing the load on the system. Performance study of the proposed model is done by simulating it on some real data. The result indicates that the proposed model performs well with multiple objectives.