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Characterizing the power cost of virtualization environments
Virtualization is a key building block of next-generation mobile networks. It
can be implemented through twomain approaches: traditional virtual machines
(VMs) and lighter-weight containers. Our objective in this paper is to compare
these approaches and study the power consumption they are associated
with. To this end, we perform a large set of real-world measurements, using
both synthetic workloads and real-world applications, and use them to model
the relationship between the resource usage of the hosted application and the
power consumption of both VMs and containers hosting it. We find that containers
incur substantially lower power consumption than VMs and that such
consumption increases more slowly with the application load.This work is supported by the EuropeanCommission through the H2020 5G-TRANSFORMERproject (Project ID 761536