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Energy efficiency for edge multimedia elastic applications

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With the rise of edge computing paradigms, multimedia applications will have to tackle unprecedented management issues, pursuing an optimal balance between performance, Quality of Service (QoS), and power consumption. In this paper, we investigate a novel paradigm to deploy multimedia elastic applications at the edge in a very energy-efficient manner. Our approach is based on pre-provisioning virtual resources that remain “frozen” until the application scales out. Frozen resources are treated in a special way by the infrastructure, leveraging aggressive power-saving mechanisms that keep negligible their impact on energy consumption and performance. We report extensive measurements on QoS and power consumption that we carried out in a real testbed, which is the first working implementation of the proposed paradigm. Our work shows how resource utilization and performance can be increased by leveraging SDN technologies and conscious setting of cloud parameters. We investigate the trade-off between performance and power consumption (i.e., energy efficiency), in relation to different consolidation strategies. Finally, we measure power consumption and estimate energy saving for an elastic video transcoding application deployed at the network edge.

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Notes

  1. Amazon Elastic Transcoder: https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/.

  2. The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) [32] is an industry-led specification that brings power management under the control of the operating system, instead of delegating to platform-specific firmware. The S3 state consists in shutting down most hardware but the system RAM, which remains powered to quickly resume the whole system to full operation.

  3. Metadata can be inserted when the VM is created, but can also be updated later. See: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaImageCreationAPI.

  4. Configuration of QoS parameters (priority queues, traffic shapers, scheduling disciplines) in the physical switches is not implemented yet, but it is already on the development roadmap.

  5. https://iperf.fr/.

  6. In this case, we deployed an additional server instead of the network node.

  7. OpenStack documentation – Configure live migrations. URL: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/pike/admin/configuring-migrations.html.

  8. Stress-ng is a tool that stresses a computer system in various selectable ways. Stress-ng has a wide range of CPU-specific stress tests that exercise floating point, integer, bit manipulation and control flow. URL: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/stress-ng/.

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This work was supported in part by the European Commission under the projects ARCADIA (contract no. 645372) and MATILDA (contract no. 761898).

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    Alessandro Carrega, Matteo Repetto & Giorgio Robino

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Carrega, A., Portomauro, G., Repetto, M. et al. Energy efficiency for edge multimedia elastic applications. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 24739–24764 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-7050-x

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