Real-time service task scheduling with fine-grained resource utilization to benefit important industrial business

Scheduling of service-oriented industrial businesses to meet the real-time requirements and improve the computing resources utilization is important. To this end, a Fine-grained Online Service Task Scheduling (FOSTS) method is proposed. First, a service task model that separates the invoked service from the task is established. Then, a service invocation-oriented allocation mechanism that allocates the invoked tasks based on priority is proposed to achieve fine-grained resource utilization. In addition, a task suspension mechanism to release resources for important tasks by suspending non-important tasks is proposed. The proposed FOSTS is tested in a typical industrial scenario and its performance is compared with many common and state-of-the-art methods. The simulation results show the effectiveness and superior performance of the proposed FOSTS compared to the other methods.