Energy Optimization of Distributed Video Processing System using Genetic Algorithm with Bayesian Attractor Model

Abstract

For the future cyber-physical system (CPS) society, it is necessary to construct digital twins (DTs) of a real world in real time using a lot of cameras and sensors. Hence, the energy efficiency of both networks and computers for largescale distributed video analysis is a major challenge for the full-scale spread of CPSs and DTs. Toward this goal, we first propose a model to arbitrarily split and distribute the video analysis task to terminals, edge servers, and cloud servers and dynamically assign appropriate CNN models to them. System-wide optimization of such distributed processing can reduce overall system power consumption by reducing network bandwidth and efficiently utilizing distributed CPU/GPU resources. To realize this optimization in a real system, we also propose a model to estimate the GPU load, processing time, and power consumption of these devices based on massive experimental measurements. Since such a large-scale optimization is difficult because of the dynamic and multi-objective nature of the problem, we propose a new optimization algorithm composed of Genetic Algorithm and Bayesian Attractor Model. Finally, simulation evaluations are performed to demonstrate that the proposed method can minimize system power consumption and satisfy latency and recognition accuracy requirements of each video analysis, even under changing environmental conditions.