Title
Experimental Evaluation of an Energy-Delay Aware Web Routing Method
Date Issued
08 February 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Velusamy G.
University of Houston
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
The web infrastructure continues to grow in both size and diversity and is quickly approaching 2 billion sites that serve an equally massive number of users. Content replication is a common technique that aims to improve reliability and performance. It consists of the use of multiple server mirrors that operate across geographically distributed regions. Several factors impair the static system optimization or even a periodic optimization. Final energy costs depend on the level of workload handled by each region given local variations in energy pricing. To accentuate the problem, energy pricing may dynamically change for some sites. Also, network state fluctuations, that are produced by congestion and failures, create time-varying performance to different users. These factors contribute to affect user experience and service costs. We propose an energy-delay aware web routing method that dynamically directs user requests to a set of replicated sites. The method relies on learning to implement a customized performance-cost load-balancing. We present experimental results from a network testbed using actual power measurements and simulated spatial variations in the energy prices according to the U.S. electricity market. The results show that the method can help to achieve the desired balance of energy cost and average response time, while reducing energy costs up to 11% without introducing a major impact to service quality.
Start page
217
End page
225
Volume
2018-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
IngenierÃa de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062892649
ISBN of the container
9781538644133
Conference
Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN: 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2018
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgment The authors would like to thank Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Omprakash Gnawali for their valuable comments on this work. This work was supported by an Early Career Faculty grant from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program. References
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