Bao-Shan Sun, Hao Huang, Zheng-Yi Chai, Ying-Jie Zhao, Hong-Shen Kang
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Abstract
Industrial internet of things (IIoT) connects traditional industrial devices with the network to provide intelligent services, which is regarded as the key technology for achieving Industry 4.0 and enabling the transformation of the manufacturing sector. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has brought significant opportunities to expedite the development of IIoT. However, the unique task characteristics and dense deployment of IIoT devices, coupled with the resource starvation problem (RSP) arising from the limited resources of edge servers, pose challenges to the direct applicability of existing MEC algorithms in MEC-assisted IIoT scenarios. To this end, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is proposed to simultaneously optimize delay and energy consumption for multi-workflow execution in resource-limited IIoT. First, the initialization of execution location based on delay and the initialization of execution order satisfying the priority constraint can generate high-quality initial solutions. Then, the improved crossover and mutation operations guide the population evolution, which can span the large infeasible solution region. Finally, dynamic task scheduling (DTS) dynamically changes the execution location of tasks affected by RSP according to the execution efficiency, so as to avoid the tasks blindly waiting for server resources. The comprehensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in achieving a balance between the execution delay and energy consumption of IIoT devices.
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Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is a pioneering peer-reviewed journal focused on the latest research and advancements in nature-inspired intelligent computation using swarm and evolutionary algorithms. It covers theoretical, experimental, and practical aspects of these paradigms and their hybrids, promoting interdisciplinary research. The journal prioritizes the publication of high-quality, original articles that push the boundaries of evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence. Additionally, it welcomes survey papers on current topics and novel applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Genetic Algorithms, and Genetic Programming, Evolution Strategies, and Evolutionary Programming, Differential Evolution, Artificial Immune Systems, Particle Swarms, Ant Colony, Bacterial Foraging, Artificial Bees, Fireflies Algorithm, Harmony Search, Artificial Life, Digital Organisms, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Stochastic Diffusion Search, Quantum Computing, Nano Computing, Membrane Computing, Human-centric Computing, Hybridization of Algorithms, Memetic Computing, Autonomic Computing, Self-organizing systems, Combinatorial, Discrete, Binary, Constrained, Multi-objective, Multi-modal, Dynamic, and Large-scale Optimization.