Energy consumption, execution time and fail requests rate of a proactive energy-aware auto-scaling solution for edge-based infrastructures applied to real-world workload.

Spreadsheet of the results obtained with our horizontal auto-scaling proposal presented in "A proactive energy-aware auto-scaling solution for edge-based infrastructures". In that research, we present a proactive horizontal auto-scaling framework for edge infrastructures, which considers both the base (idle) and dynamic (due to application execution) energy consumption of edge nodes and the node scaling mechanism. Simulations were performed with the EdgeCloudSim simulator with a workload provided by Shanghai Telecom and the results show up to a 92.5% decrease in energy consumption, a failed request rate of up to 0%, and reasonable execution times of the auto-scaling process for different problem sizes.

Proactive auto-scaling mechanisms in edge-based infrastructures can anticipate user service requests by allocating computing resources while supporting the quality of service needed by a vast range of applications requiring, e.g., a low latency or response time. 

This work is supported by the European Union's H2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement DAEMON 101017109 and by the projects co-financed by FEDER funds LEIA UMA18-FEDERJA-15, MEDEA RTI2018-099213-B-I00 (MCI/AEI) and RHEA P18-FR-1081.