Paper Info
Title
ECO-ALOC: Energy-efficient resource allocation for cluster-based software routers
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the use of cluster-based software routers as a way to share hardware resources, reduce costs, and save energy. We propose ECO–ALOC, an energy-efficient resource allocation mechanism that reconfigures the router according to the traffic demands using two modules. The first module provides fine-grained energy consumption control by switching CPU operation frequencies among three special frequencies. The second module provides long-term power savings by using virtual router migration to consolidate the load and shut idle servers down. We simulate a cluster-based software router using real traffic traces to evaluate our proposal. Results show that ECO–ALOC provides power savings of up to 93% depending on the cluster load scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.comnet.2012.03.007
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cluster-based software routers,virtual router migration,cluster-based software router,CPU operation frequency,long-term power saving,Energy-efficient resource allocation,traffic demand,power saving,real traffic trace,fine-grained energy consumption control,cluster load scenario
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1389-1286
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlo Fragni150.48
Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa227733.90