To achieve high quality of service (QoS) on computational grids, the QoS-aware job scheduling is investigated for a hierarchical decentralized grid architecture that consists of multilevel schedulers. An integrated ...To achieve high quality of service (QoS) on computational grids, the QoS-aware job scheduling is investigated for a hierarchical decentralized grid architecture that consists of multilevel schedulers. An integrated QoS-aware job dispatching policy is proposed, which correlates priorities of incoming jobs used for job selecting at the local scheduler of the grid node with the job dispatching policies at the global scheduler for computational grids. The stochastic high-level Petri net (SHLPN) model of a two-level hierarchy computational grid architecture is presented, and a model refinement is made to reduce the complexity of the model solution. A performance analysis technique based on the SHLPN is proposed to investigate the QoS-aware job scheduling policy. Numerical results show that the QoS-aware job dispatching policy outperforms the QoS-unaware job dispatching policy in balancing the high-priority jobs, and thus enables priority-based QoS.展开更多
To study the throughput scheduling problem under interference temperature in cognitive radio networks, an immune algorithm-based suboptimal method was proposed based on its NP-hard feature. The problem is modeled as a...To study the throughput scheduling problem under interference temperature in cognitive radio networks, an immune algorithm-based suboptimal method was proposed based on its NP-hard feature. The problem is modeled as a constrained optimization problem to maximize the total throughput of the secondary users( SUs). The mapping between the throughput scheduling problems and the immune algorithm is given. Suitable immune operators are designed such as binary antibody encoding, antibody initialization based on pre-knowledge, a proportional clone to its affinity and an adaptive mutation operator associated with the evolutionary generation. The simulation results showthat the proposed algorithm can obtain about 95% of the optimal throughput and operate with much lower liner computational complexity.展开更多
Job management is a key issue in computational grids, and normally involves job definition, scheduling, executing and monitoring. However, job management in the existing grid middleware needs to be improved in terms o...Job management is a key issue in computational grids, and normally involves job definition, scheduling, executing and monitoring. However, job management in the existing grid middleware needs to be improved in terms of efficiency and flexibility. This paper addresses a flexible architecture for job management with detailed design and implementation. Frameworks for job scheduling and monitoring, as two important aspects, are also presented. The proposed job management has the advantages of reusability of job definition, flexible and automatic file operation, visual steering of file transfer and job execution, and adaptive application job scheduler. A job management wizard is designed to implement each step. Therefore, what the grid user needs to do is only to define the job by constructing necessary information at runtime. In addition, the job space is adopted to ensure the security of the job management. Experimental results showed that this approach is user-friendly and system efficient.展开更多
Packet size is restricted due to the error-prone wireless channel which drops the network energy utilization. Furthermore, the frequent packet retransmissions also lead to energy waste. In order to improve the energy ...Packet size is restricted due to the error-prone wireless channel which drops the network energy utilization. Furthermore, the frequent packet retransmissions also lead to energy waste. In order to improve the energy efficiency of wireless networks and save the energy of wireless devices, EEFA (Energy Efficiency Frame Aggregation), a frame aggregation based energy-efficient scheduling algorithm for IEEE 802.11n wireless network, is proposed. EEFA changes the size of aggregated frame dynamically according to the frame error rate, so as to ensure the data transmission and retransmissions completed during the TXOP and reduce energy consumption of channel contention. NS2 simulation results show that EEFA algorithm achieves better performance than the original frame-aggregation algorithm.展开更多
Task scheduling is one of the core steps to effectively exploit the capabilities of heterogeneous re-sources in the grid.This paper presents a new hybrid differential evolution(HDE)algorithm for findingan optimal or n...Task scheduling is one of the core steps to effectively exploit the capabilities of heterogeneous re-sources in the grid.This paper presents a new hybrid differential evolution(HDE)algorithm for findingan optimal or near-optimal schedule within reasonable time.The encoding scheme and the adaptation ofclassical differential evolution algorithm for dealing with discrete variables are discussed.A simple but ef-fective local search is incorporated into differential evolution to stress exploitation.The performance of theproposed HDE algorithm is showed by being compared with a genetic algorithm(GA)on a known staticbenchmark for the problem.Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm has better perfor-mance than GA in terms of both solution quality and computational time,and thus it can be used to de-sign efficient dynamic schedulers in batch mode for real grid systems.展开更多
Aiming at developing a node scheduling protocol for sensor networks with fewer active nodes,we propose a coordinated node scheduling protocol based on the presentation of a solution and its optimization to determine w...Aiming at developing a node scheduling protocol for sensor networks with fewer active nodes,we propose a coordinated node scheduling protocol based on the presentation of a solution and its optimization to determine whether a node is redundant.The proposed protocol can reduce the number of working nodes by turning off as many redundant nodes as possible without degrading the coverage and connectivity.The simulation result shows that our protocol outperforms the peer with respect to the working node number and dynamic coverage percentage.展开更多
This paper presents a resource scheduling approach in grid computing environment. Using P2P technology, this novel approach can schedule dynamic grid computing resources efficiently. Grid computing resources in differ...This paper presents a resource scheduling approach in grid computing environment. Using P2P technology, this novel approach can schedule dynamic grid computing resources efficiently. Grid computing resources in different domains are organized into a structured P2P overlay network. Available resource information is published in type of grid services. Task requests for computational resources are also presented as grid services. Problem of resources scheduling is translated into services discovery. Different from central scheduling approaches that collect available resources information, this Chord-based approach forwards task requests in the overlay network and discovers satisfied resources for these tasks. Using this approach, the computational resources of a grid system can be scheduled dynamically according to the real- time workload on each peer. Furthermore, the application of this approach is introduced into DDG, a grid system for drug discovery and design, to evaluate the performance. Experimental results show that computational resources of a grid system can be managed efficiently, and the system can hold a perfect load balance state and robustness.展开更多
This paper proposes a distributed fair queuing algorithm which is based on compensation coordi- nation scheduling in wireless mesh networks, considering such problems as the location-dependent competition and unfair c...This paper proposes a distributed fair queuing algorithm which is based on compensation coordi- nation scheduling in wireless mesh networks, considering such problems as the location-dependent competition and unfair channel bandwidth allocation among nodes. The data communication process requiring the establishment of compensation coordination scheduling model is divided into three periods: the sending period, the compensation period and the dormancy period. According to model parameters, time constraint functions are designed to limit the execution length of each period. The algorithms guarantee that the nodes complete fair transmission of network packets together in accordance with the fixed coordination scheduling rule of the model. Simulations and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in network throughput and fairness.展开更多
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a mecha- nism for multicast data transmission in IEEE 802.16 mesh networks aimed at increasing the throughput by incorporating mini-slot spatial reuse. The proposed mechanism inclu...Abstract: In this paper, we propose a mecha- nism for multicast data transmission in IEEE 802.16 mesh networks aimed at increasing the throughput by incorporating mini-slot spatial reuse. The proposed mechanism includes two novel algorithms: a source-based multicast tree topology construction algorithm followed by an interference-aware multieast scheduling algorithm. The proposed multicast interfer- ence-aware scheduling algorithm can be ap- plied to both source-based and rendez- vous-based multicast tree topologies. Results of our simulation study show that in compari- son to the mechanism used for the IEEE 802.16's standard, the proposed multicast tree generation algorithm reduces the number of consumed mini-slots by 64% on average. Moreover, using the proposed interfer- ence-aware scheduling algorithm decreases the number of required mini-slots by a further 22% on average. Therefore, the proposed mul- ticast scheduling mechanism shows a higher throughput than the previous approaches and it is more scalable with respect to increasing the number of multicast groups as well as in- creasing the number of members inside each multicast group.展开更多
In limited feedback-based CloudRAN(C-RAN) systems,the inter-cluster and intra-cluster interference together with the quantification error can seriously deteriorates the system spectral efficiency.We,in this paper,prop...In limited feedback-based CloudRAN(C-RAN) systems,the inter-cluster and intra-cluster interference together with the quantification error can seriously deteriorates the system spectral efficiency.We,in this paper,propose an efficient three-phase framework and corresponding algorithms for dealing with this problem.Firstly,a greedy scheduling algorithm based on the lower bound of the ergodic rate is performed for generating an elementary cluster in the first phase.And then the elementary cluster is divided into many small clusters according to the following proposed algorithms based on the short term instantaneous information in the second phase.In the end,based on the limited feedback two zero-forcing(ZF) precoding strategies are adopted for reducing the intra-cluster interference in the third phase.The provided Monte Carlo simulations show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms in the respect of system spectral efficiency and average user rate.展开更多
Resource scheduling algorithm for ForCES(Forwarding and Control Element Separation) networks need to meet the flexibility,programmability and scalability of node resources.DBC(Deadline Budget Constrain) algorithm reli...Resource scheduling algorithm for ForCES(Forwarding and Control Element Separation) networks need to meet the flexibility,programmability and scalability of node resources.DBC(Deadline Budget Constrain) algorithm relies on users select cost or time priority,then scheduling to meet the requirements of users.However,this priority strategy of users is relatively simple,and cannot adapt to dynamic change of resources,it is inevitable to reduce the QoS.In order to improve QoS,we refer to the economic model and resource scheduling model of cloud computing,use SAL(Service Level Agreement) as pricing strategy,on the basis of DBC algorithm,propose an DABP(Deadline And Budget Priority based on DBC) algorithm for ForCES networks,DABP combines both budget and time priority to scheduling.In simulation and test,we compare the task finish time and cost of DABP algorithm with DP(Deadline Priority) algorithm and BP(Budget Priority) algorithm,the analysis results show that DABP algorithm make the task complete with less cost within deadline,benifical to load balancing of ForCES networks.展开更多
The conventional deadline and budget constrained (DBC) scheduling heuristics for economic-based computational grids does not take the inconsistency of grid heterogeneity into account, which can lead to decline of ap...The conventional deadline and budget constrained (DBC) scheduling heuristics for economic-based computational grids does not take the inconsistency of grid heterogeneity into account, which can lead to decline of application completion ratios. Motivated by this fact, a novel DI3C scheduling heuristics was proposed to deal with sequential workflow applications. In order to valuate the inconsistency, the relative cost (RC) metric was introduced, which was used to indicate the task-starving degree for resources. The new algorithm assigns tasks to resources, considering completion time, budget and RC together. The GridSim toolkit and the benchmark suites of the standard performance evaluation corporation (SPEC) were used to simulate the heterogeneous grid environment and applications. The experimental results show that the task and workflow completion ratios of the new heuristics are higher than those of the conventional heuristics.展开更多
In traditional wireless broadcast networks,a corrupted packet must be retransmitted even if it has been lost by only one receiver.Obviously,this is not bandwidth-efficient for the receivers that already hold the retra...In traditional wireless broadcast networks,a corrupted packet must be retransmitted even if it has been lost by only one receiver.Obviously,this is not bandwidth-efficient for the receivers that already hold the retransmitted packet.Therefore,it is important to develop a method to realise efficient broadcast transmission.Network coding is a promising technique in this scenario.However,none of the proposed schemes achieves both high transmission efficiency and low computational complexity simultaneously so far.To address this problem,a novel Efficient Opportunistic Network Coding Retransmission(EONCR)scheme is proposed in this paper.This scheme employs a new packet scheduling algorithm which uses a Packet Distribution Matrix(PDM)directly to select the coded packets.The analysis and simulation results indicate that transmission efficiency of EONCR is over 0.1,more than the schemes proposed previously in some simulation conditions,and the computational overhead is reduced substantially.Hence,it has great application prospects in wireless broadcast networks,especially energyand bandwidth-limited systems such as satellite broadcast systems and Planetary Networks(PNs).展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No60673054,90412012)
文摘To achieve high quality of service (QoS) on computational grids, the QoS-aware job scheduling is investigated for a hierarchical decentralized grid architecture that consists of multilevel schedulers. An integrated QoS-aware job dispatching policy is proposed, which correlates priorities of incoming jobs used for job selecting at the local scheduler of the grid node with the job dispatching policies at the global scheduler for computational grids. The stochastic high-level Petri net (SHLPN) model of a two-level hierarchy computational grid architecture is presented, and a model refinement is made to reduce the complexity of the model solution. A performance analysis technique based on the SHLPN is proposed to investigate the QoS-aware job scheduling policy. Numerical results show that the QoS-aware job dispatching policy outperforms the QoS-unaware job dispatching policy in balancing the high-priority jobs, and thus enables priority-based QoS.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U150461361202099+2 种基金61201175U1204618)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2013M541586)
文摘To study the throughput scheduling problem under interference temperature in cognitive radio networks, an immune algorithm-based suboptimal method was proposed based on its NP-hard feature. The problem is modeled as a constrained optimization problem to maximize the total throughput of the secondary users( SUs). The mapping between the throughput scheduling problems and the immune algorithm is given. Suitable immune operators are designed such as binary antibody encoding, antibody initialization based on pre-knowledge, a proportional clone to its affinity and an adaptive mutation operator associated with the evolutionary generation. The simulation results showthat the proposed algorithm can obtain about 95% of the optimal throughput and operate with much lower liner computational complexity.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90412014), the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 60225009), and the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Project (No. CNGI-04-15-7A)
文摘Job management is a key issue in computational grids, and normally involves job definition, scheduling, executing and monitoring. However, job management in the existing grid middleware needs to be improved in terms of efficiency and flexibility. This paper addresses a flexible architecture for job management with detailed design and implementation. Frameworks for job scheduling and monitoring, as two important aspects, are also presented. The proposed job management has the advantages of reusability of job definition, flexible and automatic file operation, visual steering of file transfer and job execution, and adaptive application job scheduler. A job management wizard is designed to implement each step. Therefore, what the grid user needs to do is only to define the job by constructing necessary information at runtime. In addition, the job space is adopted to ensure the security of the job management. Experimental results showed that this approach is user-friendly and system efficient.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61363067,Guangxi Nature Science Foundation,Guangxi Ministry of Education Foundation
文摘Packet size is restricted due to the error-prone wireless channel which drops the network energy utilization. Furthermore, the frequent packet retransmissions also lead to energy waste. In order to improve the energy efficiency of wireless networks and save the energy of wireless devices, EEFA (Energy Efficiency Frame Aggregation), a frame aggregation based energy-efficient scheduling algorithm for IEEE 802.11n wireless network, is proposed. EEFA changes the size of aggregated frame dynamically according to the frame error rate, so as to ensure the data transmission and retransmissions completed during the TXOP and reduce energy consumption of channel contention. NS2 simulation results show that EEFA algorithm achieves better performance than the original frame-aggregation algorithm.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2007CB316502)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60534060)
文摘Task scheduling is one of the core steps to effectively exploit the capabilities of heterogeneous re-sources in the grid.This paper presents a new hybrid differential evolution(HDE)algorithm for findingan optimal or near-optimal schedule within reasonable time.The encoding scheme and the adaptation ofclassical differential evolution algorithm for dealing with discrete variables are discussed.A simple but ef-fective local search is incorporated into differential evolution to stress exploitation.The performance of theproposed HDE algorithm is showed by being compared with a genetic algorithm(GA)on a known staticbenchmark for the problem.Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm has better perfor-mance than GA in terms of both solution quality and computational time,and thus it can be used to de-sign efficient dynamic schedulers in batch mode for real grid systems.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60533110 and No.90604013)the Scientific Research Foundation of Harbin Institute of Technology(Grant No. HIT2002.74)
文摘Aiming at developing a node scheduling protocol for sensor networks with fewer active nodes,we propose a coordinated node scheduling protocol based on the presentation of a solution and its optimization to determine whether a node is redundant.The proposed protocol can reduce the number of working nodes by turning off as many redundant nodes as possible without degrading the coverage and connectivity.The simulation result shows that our protocol outperforms the peer with respect to the working node number and dynamic coverage percentage.
文摘This paper presents a resource scheduling approach in grid computing environment. Using P2P technology, this novel approach can schedule dynamic grid computing resources efficiently. Grid computing resources in different domains are organized into a structured P2P overlay network. Available resource information is published in type of grid services. Task requests for computational resources are also presented as grid services. Problem of resources scheduling is translated into services discovery. Different from central scheduling approaches that collect available resources information, this Chord-based approach forwards task requests in the overlay network and discovers satisfied resources for these tasks. Using this approach, the computational resources of a grid system can be scheduled dynamically according to the real- time workload on each peer. Furthermore, the application of this approach is introduced into DDG, a grid system for drug discovery and design, to evaluate the performance. Experimental results show that computational resources of a grid system can be managed efficiently, and the system can hold a perfect load balance state and robustness.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61071096, 61003233, 61073103 ) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20100162110012).
文摘This paper proposes a distributed fair queuing algorithm which is based on compensation coordi- nation scheduling in wireless mesh networks, considering such problems as the location-dependent competition and unfair channel bandwidth allocation among nodes. The data communication process requiring the establishment of compensation coordination scheduling model is divided into three periods: the sending period, the compensation period and the dormancy period. According to model parameters, time constraint functions are designed to limit the execution length of each period. The algorithms guarantee that the nodes complete fair transmission of network packets together in accordance with the fixed coordination scheduling rule of the model. Simulations and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in network throughput and fairness.
文摘Abstract: In this paper, we propose a mecha- nism for multicast data transmission in IEEE 802.16 mesh networks aimed at increasing the throughput by incorporating mini-slot spatial reuse. The proposed mechanism includes two novel algorithms: a source-based multicast tree topology construction algorithm followed by an interference-aware multieast scheduling algorithm. The proposed multicast interfer- ence-aware scheduling algorithm can be ap- plied to both source-based and rendez- vous-based multicast tree topologies. Results of our simulation study show that in compari- son to the mechanism used for the IEEE 802.16's standard, the proposed multicast tree generation algorithm reduces the number of consumed mini-slots by 64% on average. Moreover, using the proposed interfer- ence-aware scheduling algorithm decreases the number of required mini-slots by a further 22% on average. Therefore, the proposed mul- ticast scheduling mechanism shows a higher throughput than the previous approaches and it is more scalable with respect to increasing the number of multicast groups as well as in- creasing the number of members inside each multicast group.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) under Grant(No. 61461136001)
文摘In limited feedback-based CloudRAN(C-RAN) systems,the inter-cluster and intra-cluster interference together with the quantification error can seriously deteriorates the system spectral efficiency.We,in this paper,propose an efficient three-phase framework and corresponding algorithms for dealing with this problem.Firstly,a greedy scheduling algorithm based on the lower bound of the ergodic rate is performed for generating an elementary cluster in the first phase.And then the elementary cluster is divided into many small clusters according to the following proposed algorithms based on the short term instantaneous information in the second phase.In the end,based on the limited feedback two zero-forcing(ZF) precoding strategies are adopted for reducing the intra-cluster interference in the third phase.The provided Monte Carlo simulations show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms in the respect of system spectral efficiency and average user rate.
基金This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program) under Grant No.2012CB315902,the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61379120,61170215,the Program for Zhejiang Leading Team of Science and Technology Innovation under Grant No.2011R50010-12,2011R50010-18.Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of New Network Standards and Technologies (NNST)
文摘Resource scheduling algorithm for ForCES(Forwarding and Control Element Separation) networks need to meet the flexibility,programmability and scalability of node resources.DBC(Deadline Budget Constrain) algorithm relies on users select cost or time priority,then scheduling to meet the requirements of users.However,this priority strategy of users is relatively simple,and cannot adapt to dynamic change of resources,it is inevitable to reduce the QoS.In order to improve QoS,we refer to the economic model and resource scheduling model of cloud computing,use SAL(Service Level Agreement) as pricing strategy,on the basis of DBC algorithm,propose an DABP(Deadline And Budget Priority based on DBC) algorithm for ForCES networks,DABP combines both budget and time priority to scheduling.In simulation and test,we compare the task finish time and cost of DABP algorithm with DP(Deadline Priority) algorithm and BP(Budget Priority) algorithm,the analysis results show that DABP algorithm make the task complete with less cost within deadline,benifical to load balancing of ForCES networks.
基金Project(60873107) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The conventional deadline and budget constrained (DBC) scheduling heuristics for economic-based computational grids does not take the inconsistency of grid heterogeneity into account, which can lead to decline of application completion ratios. Motivated by this fact, a novel DI3C scheduling heuristics was proposed to deal with sequential workflow applications. In order to valuate the inconsistency, the relative cost (RC) metric was introduced, which was used to indicate the task-starving degree for resources. The new algorithm assigns tasks to resources, considering completion time, budget and RC together. The GridSim toolkit and the benchmark suites of the standard performance evaluation corporation (SPEC) were used to simulate the heterogeneous grid environment and applications. The experimental results show that the task and workflow completion ratios of the new heuristics are higher than those of the conventional heuristics.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61032004the National High Technical Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grants No. 2012AA121605,No. 2012AA01A503,No.2012AA01A510
文摘In traditional wireless broadcast networks,a corrupted packet must be retransmitted even if it has been lost by only one receiver.Obviously,this is not bandwidth-efficient for the receivers that already hold the retransmitted packet.Therefore,it is important to develop a method to realise efficient broadcast transmission.Network coding is a promising technique in this scenario.However,none of the proposed schemes achieves both high transmission efficiency and low computational complexity simultaneously so far.To address this problem,a novel Efficient Opportunistic Network Coding Retransmission(EONCR)scheme is proposed in this paper.This scheme employs a new packet scheduling algorithm which uses a Packet Distribution Matrix(PDM)directly to select the coded packets.The analysis and simulation results indicate that transmission efficiency of EONCR is over 0.1,more than the schemes proposed previously in some simulation conditions,and the computational overhead is reduced substantially.Hence,it has great application prospects in wireless broadcast networks,especially energyand bandwidth-limited systems such as satellite broadcast systems and Planetary Networks(PNs).