Running Industrial Workflow Applications in a Software-Defined Multicloud Environment Using Green Energy Aware Scheduling Algorithm

Zhenyu Wen, Saurabh Garg, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Khaled Alwasel, Deepak Puthal, Schahram Dustdar, Albert Y. Zomaya, Rajiv Ranjan

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Abstract

Industry 4.0 have automated the entire manufacturing sector (including technologies and processes) by adopting Internet of Things and cloud computing. To handle the workflows from Industrial Cyber-Physical systems, more and more data centers have been built across the globe to serve the growing needs of computing and storage. This has led to an enormous increase in energy usage by cloud data centers, which is not only a financial burden but also increases their carbon footprint. The private software defined wide area network (SDWAN) connects a cloud provider's data centers across the planet. This gives the opportunity to develop new scheduling strategies to manage cloud providers workload in a more energy-efficient manner. In this context, this article addresses the problem of scheduling data-driven industrial workflow applications over a set of private SDWAN connected data centers in an energy-efficient manner while managing tradeoff of a cloud provider' revenue. Our proposed algorithm aims to minimize the cloud provider's revenue and the usage of nonrenewable energy by utilizing the real-world electricity prices with the availability of green energy on different cloud data centers, where the energy consumption consists of the usage of running application over multiple data centers and transferring the data among them through SDWAN. The evaluation shows that our proposed method can increase usage of green energy for the execution of industrial workflow up to 3\times times with a slight increase in the cost when compared to cost-based workflow scheduling methods.

Original languageBritish English
Article number9298863
Pages (from-to)5645-5656
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Volume17
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2021

Keywords

  • Big data
  • green energy
  • industrial clouds
  • industrial workflow applications
  • software defined networking

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