Task Offloading for Scientific Workflow Application in Mobile Cloud

Feifei Zhang, Jidong Ge, Zhongjin Li, Chuanyi Li, Zifeng Huang, Li Kong, Bin Luo

2017

Abstract

Scientific applications are typically data-intensive, which feature complex DAG-structured workflows comprised of tasks with intricate inter-task dependencies. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) provides significant opportunities in enhancing computation capability and saving energy of smart mobile devices (SMDs) by offloading computation-intensive and data-intensive tasks from resource limited SMDs onto the resource-rich cloud. However, finding a proper way to assist SMDs in executing such applications remains a crucial concern. In this paper, we offer three entry points for the problem solving: first, a cost model based on the pay-as-you-go manner of IaaS Cloud is proposed; then, we investigate the problem of mapping strategy of scientific workflows to minimize the monetary cost and energy consumption of SMDs simultaneously under deadline constraints; furthermore, we consider dataset placement issue during the offloading and mapping process of the workflows. A genetic algorithm (GA) based offloading method is proposed by carefully modifying parts of GA to suit the needs for the stated problem. Numerical results corroborate that the proposed algorithm can achieve near-optimal energy and monetary cost reduction with the application completion time and dataset placement constraint satisfied.

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Zhang F., Ge J., Li Z., Li C., Huang Z., Kong L. and Luo B. (2017). Task Offloading for Scientific Workflow Application in Mobile Cloud . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS, ISBN 978-989-758-245-5, pages 136-148. DOI: 10.5220/0006364501360148


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds17,
author={Feifei Zhang and Jidong Ge and Zhongjin Li and Chuanyi Li and Zifeng Huang and Li Kong and Bin Luo},
title={Task Offloading for Scientific Workflow Application in Mobile Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,},
year={2017},
pages={136-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006364501360148},
isbn={978-989-758-245-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,
TI - Task Offloading for Scientific Workflow Application in Mobile Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-245-5
AU - Zhang F.
AU - Ge J.
AU - Li Z.
AU - Li C.
AU - Huang Z.
AU - Kong L.
AU - Luo B.
PY - 2017
SP - 136
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0006364501360148