Energy - Aware Cloud Infrastructure for IoT Big Data Processing

Internet of Things (IoT) is an outcome of the emanating third wave of development of the Internet. Big Data Analytics in IoT provide valuable insights for Smart and Sustainable systems. Cloud Data Centers deliver on-demand computing resources for processing voluminous data. Servers that are provisioned for this purpose consume enormous amount of energy contributing to 2% of the global Carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. IoT energy concerns are addressed by research in low-power sensors and improved Machine-to-Machine communications. However, Cloud Data Centers still face energy crisis. This work attempts to analyze the energy behavior of compute hosts on applying Virtual Machine (VM) Consolidation in a Multi-node Openstack Cloud. Several works on VM consolidation is evaluated for simulated workload but this work aims to study the performance in a real cloud infrastructure with a big data workload. The preliminary results of this research are presented in this paper.

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