Genetic optimization–based scheduling in maritime cyber physical systems

In this article, we attempt to solve the issue of optimal scheduling for vessels monitoring video data uploading in maritime cyber physical systems, during the period of sailing from the origin port to destination port. We consider the terrestrial infrastructure-based networking, delivering video packets assisted by the shoreside infostations to the authorities on land. Each video packet has respective elements (i.e. release time, deadline, processing time, and weight) to describe, in which deadline is utilized to demonstrate the time domain limitation before that to upload it successfully. In order to cope with the computation complexity of traditional scheduling algorithms in intermittent infostations scenario, time-capacity mapping method is exploited to transfer it to a continue scenario when classic scheduling algorithms could be utilized with lower time complexity. An ingenious mathematic job-machine scheduling formulation is indicated with the goal of minimizing the total penalties of tardiness of uploaded video packets, taking into account the tardiness and the weights of jobs simultaneously. A genetic based algorithm, as well as an improved genetic algorithm–based optimization scheme, is proposed to target this optimization formulation. Specially, the genetic based algorithm as well as the improved genetic based algorithm are described in detail, including a novel chromosome representation, a heuristic initialization procedure, as well as a modified crossover and mutation process. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes is verified by the simulation results.