Profit maximization based task scheduling in hybrid clouds using whale optimization technique

In cloud computing system, task scheduling plays an important key role. The tasks provided by the user to allocate in cloud have to pay for the share of resources that are used by them. The requirement of task scheduling in the cloud environment has become more and more complex, and the amount of resources and tasks is growing rapidly. Therefore, an efficient task-scheduling algorithm is necessary for allocating the task efficiently in the cloud, which can achieve minimum resource utilization, minimum processing time, high efficiency, and maximum profit. In hybrid clouds to maximize the profit of a private cloud while guaranteeing the service delay bound of delay-tolerant tasks is studied in this article. Here, a new metaheuristic technique inspired from the bubble-net hunting technique of humpback whales, namely whale optimization algorithm (WOA), has been applied to solve the task-scheduling problem. Then WOA algorithm is compared with existing algorithms such as artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) and Genetic algorithm (GA). The experimental result shows that the proposed WOA algorithm greatly increases the efficiency and achieves maximum profit for the private cloud.