Hybrid Resource Orchestration and Scheduling for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems

Recently Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (CPHS) have been attracted much attention. Unlike existing computing paradigms such as Cloud Computing and Edge Computing, CPHS usually comprise many types of hybrid resources such as software and hardware in the cloud layer, network devices and edge servers in the network layer, as well as the physical devices and human participation. Such hybrid resource makes it challenging to efficient resource scheduling for CPHS. Previous studies on CPHS often focus on improving scheduling efficiency for specific application scenarios and thus are limited for other CPHS. In this work, we present a unified hybrid resource scheduling framework for CPHS, including a hybrid resource model for multiple types of resource providers and participants in CPHS, a hybrid resource orchestration tool that can describe our hybrid resource model as the resource requirements, and a scheduling mechanism to satisfy the resource requirements especially by considering the resource constraints and crosslayer scheduling in CPHS. We perform the case study of typical CPHS scenarios and show that our hybrid resource model and scheduling framework is effective, and provide a new view for improving the resource provision efficiency in CPHS.