Decentralised grid scheduling approach based on multi-agent reinforcement learning and gossip mechanism

Autor: Jun Wu, Xin Xu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2468-2322
DOI: 10.1049/trit.2018.0001
Popis: As an important class of resource allocation approaches, decentralised job scheduling in large-scale grids has to deal with the difficulties in acquiring timely model information and improving performance by autonomous coordination. In this study, a gossip-based reinforcement learning (GRL) method is proposed for decentralised job scheduling in grids. In the GRL method, a decentralised scheduling architecture based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is presented to improve the scalability and adaptability of job scheduling. A gossip mechanism is designed to realise autonomous coordination among the decentralised schedulers. Simulation results show that the proposed GRL-based schedulers can complete the task of grid job scheduling effectively and achieve load balancing efficiently.
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