DCLGMay 1, 2025

Intelligent Task Scheduling for Microservices via A3C-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505.00299v18 citationsh-index: 52025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Communications, Information System and Computer Engineering (CISCE)
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This addresses resource allocation bottlenecks in microservice systems, offering an incremental improvement over existing methods.

The paper tackled the problem of resource scheduling in microservice systems under high dynamism and concurrency by proposing an A3C-based reinforcement learning method, resulting in improved scheduling performance and stability compared to traditional approaches.

To address the challenges of high resource dynamism and intensive task concurrency in microservice systems, this paper proposes an adaptive resource scheduling method based on the A3C reinforcement learning algorithm. The scheduling problem is modeled as a Markov Decision Process, where policy and value networks are jointly optimized to enable fine-grained resource allocation under varying load conditions. The method incorporates an asynchronous multi-threaded learning mechanism, allowing multiple agents to perform parallel sampling and synchronize updates to the global network parameters. This design improves both policy convergence efficiency and model stability. In the experimental section, a real-world dataset is used to construct a scheduling scenario. The proposed method is compared with several typical approaches across multiple evaluation metrics, including task delay, scheduling success rate, resource utilization, and convergence speed. The results show that the proposed method delivers high scheduling performance and system stability in multi-task concurrent environments. It effectively alleviates the resource allocation bottlenecks faced by traditional methods under heavy load, demonstrating its practical value for intelligent scheduling in microservice systems.

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