A fine-grained task scheduling mechanism for digital economy services based on intelligent edge and cloud computing

Digital economy is regarded countries as an inevitable choice to promote economic growth and provides new opportunities and new paths for the high-quality development of economy. For the Chinese market, the strong base behind cloud computing is the unstoppable development trend of the digital economy. In digital economy, the cloud as infrastructure becomes the base of the pyramid to build the digital economy. To relieve the pressure on the servers of the digital economy and develop a reasonable scheduling scheme, this paper proposes a fine-grained task scheduling method for cloud and edge computing based on a hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm. The edge computing task scheduling problem is described, and assumptions are set to simplify the difficulty of a scheduling solution. The multi-objective function is solved by using a hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm which solves computational problems by finding the optimal solution with the help of graphs. Ant colony optimization algorithm is easy to use and effective in scheduling problems. The proposed scheduling model includes an end-device layer and an edge layer. A terminal device layer consists of devices used by the clients that may generate computationally intensive tasks and are sometime uncapable to complete the tasks. The proposed scheduling policy migrates these tasks to a suitable place where they can be completed while meeting the latency requirements. The CPUs of the idle users on the end-device layer are used for other CPU-overloaded terminals. The simulation results, in terms of energy consumptions, and task scheduling delays, show that the task scheduling performance is better under the application of this method and the obtained scheduling scheme is more reasonable.