DATA: Dependency-Aware Task Allocation Scheme in Distributed Edge Clouds

Jaewook Lee, Haneul Ko, Joonwoo Kim, Sangheon Pack

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    Abstract

    To overcome the limitation of standalone edge cloud in terms of computing power and resource, a concept of distributed edge cloud has been introduced, where application tasks are distributed to multiple edge clouds for collaborative processing. To maximize the effectiveness of the distributed edge cloud, we formulate an optimization problem of task allocation to minimize the application completion time. To mitigate high complexity overhead in the formulated problem, we devise a low-complexity heuristic algorithm called dependency-aware task allocation (DATA) algorithm. Evaluation results demonstrate that DATA can reduce the application completion time up to by 15%-32% compared to conventional dependency-unaware task allocation schemes.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number9079591
    Pages (from-to)7782-7790
    Number of pages9
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
    Volume16
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020 Dec

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIP) under Grant 2020R1A2C3006786 and in part by the Samsung Research in Samsung Electronics. Paper no. TII-19-4415.

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received September 28, 2019; revised January 5, 2020; accepted April 15, 2020. Date of publication April 27, 2020; date of current version September 18, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIP) under Grant 2020R1A2C3006786 and in part by the Samsung Research in Samsung Electronics. Paper no. TII-19-4415. (Corresponding author: Sangheon Pack.) Jaewook Lee, Joonwoo Kim, and Sangheon Pack are with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, South Korea (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).

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    © 2005-2012 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Distributed edge cloud
    • heuristic algorithm
    • mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP)
    • optimization

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Information Systems
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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