TITLE:
Edge-Cloud Collaborative Optimization Scheduling with Micro-Service Architecture
AUTHORS:
Qiuyan Liu, Jiajun Li, Huazhang Lv, Zhonghao Zhang, Mingxuan Li, Yi Feng
KEYWORDS:
Edge-Cloud Collaboration, Micro-Service, Scheduling Policy, Markov Process
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.7 No.10,
October
16,
2019
ABSTRACT: The architecture of edge-cloud cooperation is proposed as a compromising solution that combines the advantage of MEC and central cloud. In this paper we investigated the problem of how to reduce the average delay of MEC application by collaborative task scheduling. The collaborative task scheduling is modeled as a constrained shortest path problem over an acyclic graph. By characterizing the optimal solution, the constrained optimization problem is simplified according to one-climb theory and enumeration algorithm. Generally, the edge-cloud collaborative task scheduling scheme performance better than independent scheme in reducing average delay. In heavy workload scenario, high blocking probability and retransmission delay at MEC is the key factor for average delay. Hence, more task executed on central cloud with abundant resource is the optimal scheme. Otherwise, transmission delay is inevitable compared with execution delay. MEC configured with higher priority and deployed close to terminals obtain more performance gain.