Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud

MacIej Swiech; Huaqian Cai; Peter A Dinda; Gang Huang

doi:10.1109/MASCOTS.2016.68

Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud

MacIej Swiech, Huaqian Cai, Peter A Dinda, Gang Huang

Computer Science

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Abstract

Approaches to making cloud operation more efficient, for example through scheduling and power management, largely assume that the workload offered from mobile, user-facing applications is a given and that the cloud must simply adapt to it. We flip this assumption 180 degrees and ask to what extent can we instead shape the user-centric workload into a form that would benefit such approaches. Using a toolchain that allows us to interpose on frontend/backend interactions in popular Android applications, we add the ability to introduce delays and collect information about user satisfaction. We conduct an 'in the wild' user study using this capability, and report on its results. Delays of up to 750 ms can be introduced with little effect on most users, although this is very much user and application dependent. Finally, given our study results, we consider reshaping the application requests by selective delays to have exponential interarrival times (Poisson arrivals), and find that we are often able to do so without exceeding the user's delay tolerance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	251-260
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509034314
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS.2016.68
State	Published - Dec 5 2016
Event	24th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 19 2016 → Sep 21 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016

Other

Other	24th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	9/19/16 → 9/21/16

Keywords

Mobile
Traffic Shaping
User Satisfaction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modeling and Simulation
Computer Networks and Communications

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Swiech, M., Cai, H., Dinda, P. A., & Huang, G. (2016). Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud. In Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016 (pp. 251-260). [7774587] (Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS.2016.68

Swiech, MacIej ; Cai, Huaqian ; Dinda, Peter A ; Huang, Gang. / Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. pp. 251-260 (Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016).

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Swiech, M, Cai, H, Dinda, PA & Huang, G 2016, Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud. in Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016., 7774587, Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 251-260, 24th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016, London, United Kingdom, 9/19/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS.2016.68

Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud. / Swiech, MacIej; Cai, Huaqian; Dinda, Peter A; Huang, Gang.

Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 251-260 7774587 (Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016).

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Swiech M, Cai H, Dinda PA, Huang G. Prospects for shaping user-centric mobile application workloads to benefit the cloud. In Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. p. 251-260. 7774587. (Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2016). https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOTS.2016.68