Task-Driven Virtual Machine Optimization Placement Model and Algorithm

Ran Yang, Zhaonan Li, Junhao Qian and Zhihua Li ()
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Ran Yang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214000, China
Zhaonan Li: School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214000, China
Junhao Qian: School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214000, China
Zhihua Li: School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214000, China

Future Internet, 2025, vol. 17, issue 2, 1-30

Abstract: In cloud data centers, determining how to balance the interests of the user and the cloud service provider is a challenging issue. In this study, a task-loading-oriented virtual machine (VM) optimization placement model and algorithm is proposed integrating consideration of both VM placement and the user’s computing requirements. First, the VM placement is modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem to minimize the makespan of the loading tasks, user rental costs, and energy consumption of cloud data centers; then, an improved chaos-elite NSGA-III (CE-NSGAIII) algorithm is presented by casting the logistic mapping-based population initialization (LMPI) and the elite-guided algorithm in NSGA-III; finally, the presented CE-NSGAIII is employed to solve the aforementioned optimization model, and further, through combination of the above sub-algorithms, a CE-NSGAIII-based VM placement method is developed. The experiment results show that the Pareto solution set obtained using the CE-NSGAIII exhibits better convergence and diversity than those of the compared algorithms and yields an optimized VM placement scheme with shorter makespan, less user rental costs, and lower energy consumption.

Keywords: cloud computing; cloud data center; VM placement; task scheduling; multi-objective optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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