On-Line Real-Time Service-Oriented Task Scheduling Using TUF. (1st July 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Shuo; Quan, Gang; Ren, Shangping
• Other Names: Gössler G. Academic Editor.; Holgado-Terriza J. A. Academic Editor.; Wiil U. K. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: ISRN software engineering. Volume 2012(2012)
• Publication Date: 2012-07-01
• Subjects: Software engineering -- Periodicals; Software engineering; Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.5402/2012/681985
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2090-7672

Abstract

Abstract : We present our approach to real-time service-oriented scheduling problems with the objective of maximizing the total system utility. Different from the traditional utility accrual scheduling problems that each task is associated with only a single time utility function (TUF), we associate two different TUFs—a profit TUF and a penalty TUF—with each task, to model the real-time services that not only need to reward the early completions but also need to penalize the abortions or deadline misses. The scheduling heuristics we proposed in this paper judiciously accept, schedule, and abort real-time services when necessary to maximize the accrued utility. Our extensive experimental results show that our proposed algorithms can significantly outperform the traditional scheduling algorithms such as the Earliest Deadline First (EDF), the traditional utility accrual (UA) scheduling algorithms, and an earlier scheduling approach based on a similar model.