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Selling FLOPs: Telecom Service Providers Can Rent a Cloudlet via Acceleration as a Service (AXaaS)

Selling FLOPs: Telecom Service Providers Can Rent a Cloudlet via Acceleration as a Service (AXaaS)
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Author(s): Nathaniel Powers (University of Rochester, USA)and Tolga Soyata (University of Rochester, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 31
Source title: Enabling Real-Time Mobile Cloud Computing through Emerging Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tolga Soyata (University of Rochester, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8662-5.ch006

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Abstract

To meet the user demand for an ever-increasing mobile-cloud computing performance for resource-intensive mobile applications, we propose a new service architecture called Acceleration as a Service (AXaaS). We formulate AXaaS based on the observation that most resource-intensive applications, such as real-time face-recognition and augmented reality, have similar resource-demand characteristics: a vast majority of the program execution time is spent on a limited set of library calls, such as Generalized Matrix-Multiply operations (GEMM), or FFT. Our AXaaS model suggests accelerating only these operations by the Telecom Service Providers (TSP). We envision the TSP offering this service through a monthly computational service charge, much like their existing monthly bandwidth charge. We demonstrate the technological and business feasibility of AXaaS on a proof-of-concept real-time face recognition application. We elaborate on the consumer, developer, and the TSP view of this model. Our results confirm AXaaS as a novel and viable business model.

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