RT Journal Article
T1 Energy-Efficient Deployment of IoT Applications in Edge-Based Infrastructures: A Software Product Line Approach
A1 Cañete, Angel
A1 Fuentes-Fernández, Lidia
A1 Amor-Pinilla, María Mercedes
K1 Energía - Consumo
AB In order to lower latency and reduce energyconsumption, edge computing proposes offloading somecomputation-intensive tasks usually performed in the cloud ontonearby devices in the frontier/edge of the access networks.However, the current task offloading approaches are often quitesimple. They neither consider the high diversity of hardware andsoftware technologies present in edge network devices nor takeinto account that some tasks may require some specific softwareand hardware infrastructure to be executed. This article pro-poses a task offloading process that leans on software productline technologies, which are a very good option to model the vari-ability of software and hardware present in edge environments.First, our approach automates the separation of applicationtasks, considering the data and operation needs and restric-tions among them, and identifying the hardware and softwareresources required by each task. Second, our approach mod-els and manages separately the infrastructure available for taskoffloading, as a set of nodes that provide certain hardware andsoftware resources. This separation allows to reason about alter-native offloading of tasks with different hardware and softwareresource requirements, in heterogeneous nodes and minimizingenergy consumption. In addition, the offloading process considersalternative implementations of tasks to choose the one that bestfits the hardware and software characteristics of the availableedge network infrastructure. The experimental results show thatour approach reduces the energy consumption in the user nodeby approximately 41%–62%, and the energy consumption of thedevices involved in a task offloading solution by 34%–48%.
PB IEEE Xplore
YR 2021
FD 2021-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37360
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37360
LA eng
NO A. Cañete, M. Amor and L. Fuentes, "Energy-Efficient Deployment of IoT Applications in Edge-Based Infrastructures: A Software Product Line Approach," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 22, pp. 16427-16439, 15 Nov.15, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3030197. keywords: {Task analysis;Hardware;Software;Internet of Things;Energy consumption;Resource management;Software algorithms;Edge computing (EC);energy efficiency;Internet of Things (IoT);software product lines (SPLs)},
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