Dynamic scheduling for workflow applications over virtualized optical networks

Joint scheduling of both computation and communication resources for workflow based distributed computing application over optical networks has been studied recently. Most algorithms proposed in previous work are mainly based on static scheduling strategies with assumption that detail resource information and accurate performance prediction is available. In this paper, we propose to employ shared virtualized optical network (VON) for the task scheduling problem. Both customers and carriers can benefit from such architecture with better flexibility and scalability. Based on a new Scheduled Result Graph (SRG) concept, we propose a computation and communication delay aware rescheduling (C²DAR) scheme to deal with the dynamics from shared VON resources. We evaluate the performance of dynamic scheduling scheme over shared VON in comparison to the static scheduling over dedicated VON and entire optical network respectively. Simulation results also show that C²DAR scheme outperforms traditional computation delay aware rescheduling (CDAR) scheme under shared VON scenario.