Multi-Objective Task Scheduling Optimization for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Environment Using Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm With Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

Workload balancing in cloud computing is still challenging problem, especially in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the cloud model. A problem that should not occur during cloud access is a host or server being overloaded or underloaded, which may affect the processing time or may result in a system crash. Therefore, to prevent these problems, an appropriate schedule of access should be considered so that the system can distribute tasks across all available resources, which is called load balancing. The load balancing technique should ensure that all Virtual Machines (VMs) are used appropriately. In this paper, an independent task scheduling approach in cloud computing is proposed using a Multi-objective task scheduling optimization based on the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) with a Q-learning algorithm,which is a reinforcement learning technique that helps the ABC algorithm work faster, called the MOABCQ method. The proposed method aims to optimize scheduling and resource utilization, maximize VM throughput, and create load balancing between VMs based on makespan, cost, and resource utilization, which are limitations of concurrent considerations. Performance analysis of the proposed method was compared using CloudSim with the existing load balancing and scheduling algorithms: Max-Min, FCFS, HABC_LJF, Q-learning, MOPSO, and MOCS algorithms in three datasets: Random, Google Cloud Jobs (GoCJ), and Synthetic workload. The experimental results indicated that the algorithms used MOABCQ approach outperformed the other algorithms in terms of reducing makespan, reducing cost, reducing degree of imbalance, increasing throughput and average resource utilization.