A Multi-queue Round Robin Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Enterprise Application Integration Platforms in the Cloud

Abstract Contemporaneous environments involve a large number of information which is received from many interconnected devices and integrated by many platforms. The Internet of Things and Cloud computing offer services to deal with such big data, so that enterprises can play in their business core by outsourcing the development, the configuration, and the maintenance of those services and their computational resources. Many enterprises use integration Platform as a Service to maintain their applications and data working in a synchronous way. However, current task scheduling algorithms of integration platforms are facing some hardships to tackle with high volumes of data. In this article, we propose a scheduling algorithm based in the round-robin heuristic through multiple task queue, which presents better performance than the traditional First-in-first-out heuristic used by current platforms. We experimented our algorithm in the execution of an integration process, and we validated the results with statistical techniques.