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NSDI '08 – Abstract

Pp. 337–350 of the Proceedings

Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching for Connection-Intensive Internet Services

Gong Chen, University of California, Los Angeles; Wenbo He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jie Liu and Suman Nath, Microsoft Research; Leonidas Rigas, Microsoft; Lin Xiao and Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research

Abstract

Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnecessary servers to save energy. Such techniques, mostly studied for request-response services, face challenges in the context of connection servers that host a large number of long-lived TCP connections. In this paper, we characterize unique properties, performance, and power models of connection servers, based on a real data trace collected from the deployed Windows Live Messenger. Using the models, we design server provisioning and load dispatching algorithms and study subtle interactions between them. We show that our algorithms can save a significant amount of energy without sacrificing user experiences.
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