P2TS: A Preemptive Approach for Priority-Aware Task Scheduling in Computing Power Networks

As an emerging computing paradigm, Computing Power Networks (CPNs) are dedicated to coordinating and managing network resources and computing resources to achieve interconnectivity in computing power perception. Efficient collaborative computing of massive data can be achieved through the scheduling function of CPNs. However, existing scheduling research mainly focuses on selecting network links and computing nodes, lacking consideration for task execution after scheduling, which may degrade the Quality of Service (QoS), leading to widespread failures and significant losses. To address this issue, we design a priority-aware preemptive task scheduling (P2TS) strategy for CPNs to jointly optimize task scheduling and execution in terms of success rate, average processing delay, and load balancing. Specifically, at the execution level, we propose a priority-aware preemptive mechanism (P2M) to optimize post-scheduling task execution. Then, at the scheduling level, we apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize the scheduling process supporting the P2M in CPNs. A series of simulations are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of our strategy.