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Single-Board-Computer Clusters for Cloudlet Computing in Internet of Things
The number of connected sensors and devices is expected to increase to billions in the near
future. However, centralised cloud-computing data centres present various challenges to meet the
requirements inherent to Internet of Things (IoT) workloads, such as low latency, high throughput
and bandwidth constraints. Edge computing is becoming the standard computing paradigm for
latency-sensitive real-time IoT workloads, since it addresses the aforementioned limitations related
to centralised cloud-computing models. Such a paradigm relies on bringing computation close to
the source of data, which presents serious operational challenges for large-scale cloud-computing
providers. In this work, we present an architecture composed of low-cost Single-Board-Computer
clusters near to data sources, and centralised cloud-computing data centres. The proposed
cost-efficient model may be employed as an alternative to fog computing to meet real-time IoT
workload requirements while keeping scalability. We include an extensive empirical analysis to
assess the suitability of single-board-computer clusters as cost-effective edge-computing micro data
centres. Additionally, we compare the proposed architecture with traditional cloudlet and cloud
architectures, and evaluate them through extensive simulation. We finally show that acquisition costs
can be drastically reduced while keeping performance levels in data-intensive IoT use cases.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2017-82113-C2-1-RMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad RTI2018-098062-A-I00European Union’s Horizon 2020 No. 754489Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/209
Software-Defined Cloud Computing: Architectural Elements and Open Challenges
The variety of existing cloud services creates a challenge for service
providers to enforce reasonable Software Level Agreements (SLA) stating the
Quality of Service (QoS) and penalties in case QoS is not achieved. To avoid
such penalties at the same time that the infrastructure operates with minimum
energy and resource wastage, constant monitoring and adaptation of the
infrastructure is needed. We refer to Software-Defined Cloud Computing, or
simply Software-Defined Clouds (SDC), as an approach for automating the process
of optimal cloud configuration by extending virtualization concept to all
resources in a data center. An SDC enables easy reconfiguration and adaptation
of physical resources in a cloud infrastructure, to better accommodate the
demand on QoS through a software that can describe and manage various aspects
comprising the cloud environment. In this paper, we present an architecture for
SDCs on data centers with emphasis on mobile cloud applications. We present an
evaluation, showcasing the potential of SDC in two use cases-QoS-aware
bandwidth allocation and bandwidth-aware, energy-efficient VM placement-and
discuss the research challenges and opportunities in this emerging area.Comment: Keynote Paper, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing,
Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2014), September 24-27, 2014, Delhi,
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LEGaTO: first steps towards energy-efficient toolset for heterogeneous computing
LEGaTO is a three-year EU H2020 project which started in December 2017. The LEGaTO project will leverage task-based programming models to provide a software ecosystem for Made-in-Europe heterogeneous hardware composed of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and dataflow engines. The aim is to attain one order of magnitude energy savings from the edge to the converged cloud/HPC.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Adaptive Dispatching of Tasks in the Cloud
The increasingly wide application of Cloud Computing enables the
consolidation of tens of thousands of applications in shared infrastructures.
Thus, meeting the quality of service requirements of so many diverse
applications in such shared resource environments has become a real challenge,
especially since the characteristics and workload of applications differ widely
and may change over time. This paper presents an experimental system that can
exploit a variety of online quality of service aware adaptive task allocation
schemes, and three such schemes are designed and compared. These are a
measurement driven algorithm that uses reinforcement learning, secondly a
"sensible" allocation algorithm that assigns jobs to sub-systems that are
observed to provide a lower response time, and then an algorithm that splits
the job arrival stream into sub-streams at rates computed from the hosts'
processing capabilities. All of these schemes are compared via measurements
among themselves and with a simple round-robin scheduler, on two experimental
test-beds with homogeneous and heterogeneous hosts having different processing
capacities.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
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