Scale: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Container Scheduling in Serverless Edge Computing
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| author | Chen, Chen Jia, Zihan Sabbioni, Andrea Farahani, Reza Jiao, Lei |
| author_facet | Chen, Chen Jia, Zihan Sabbioni, Andrea Farahani, Reza Jiao, Lei |
| contents | Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement and resource management. Efficiently allocating requests to containers is therefore critical to reduce resource over provisioning and unnecessary data movement. This paper proposes Scale, a Service Level Objective aware container scheduling and resource allocation framework designed for serverless edge computing. Scale employs a policy based deep reinforcement learning algorithm to balance system stability and performance under dynamic workloads. The design jointly incorporates SLO constraints, end to end latency, and data locality into the scheduling decision process. Extensive simulations using large scale real world datasets from Huawei Cloud demonstrate that Scale achieves solutions within a factor of 1.11 to 1.15 of a state of the art Integer Linear Programming solver, while reducing decision making time by up to 99%. |
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| spellingShingle | Scale: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Container Scheduling in Serverless Edge Computing Chen, Chen Jia, Zihan Sabbioni, Andrea Farahani, Reza Jiao, Lei Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement and resource management. Efficiently allocating requests to containers is therefore critical to reduce resource over provisioning and unnecessary data movement. This paper proposes Scale, a Service Level Objective aware container scheduling and resource allocation framework designed for serverless edge computing. Scale employs a policy based deep reinforcement learning algorithm to balance system stability and performance under dynamic workloads. The design jointly incorporates SLO constraints, end to end latency, and data locality into the scheduling decision process. Extensive simulations using large scale real world datasets from Huawei Cloud demonstrate that Scale achieves solutions within a factor of 1.11 to 1.15 of a state of the art Integer Linear Programming solver, while reducing decision making time by up to 99%. |
| title | Scale: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Container Scheduling in Serverless Edge Computing |
| topic | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15704 |