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{"title":"Container Session Level Traffic Prediction From Network Interface Usage","authors":"Lin Gu;Honghao Xu;Ziyuan Li;Zirui Chen;Hai Jin","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3252595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3252595","url":null,"abstract":"Provisioning cloud native services via containers has been regarded as a promising way to promote the cloud elasticity. A container may simultaneously sustain multiple services with a number of different communication sessions. It is of great importance to predict them for fine-grain system management. However, this is a non-trivial task as the session traffics are all invisible. The only thing we can get is the container network interface usage as the total traffic of all coexisting sessions. In this paper, we propose a machine learning based session level traffic prediction framework called X-Rayer, to predict respective session traffics from the network interface usage. Via a sliding-window based ensemble empirical mode decomposition algorithm, X-Rayer first accurately predicts the interface usage, which is then decomposed into session traffics by an invented ConvGRU formed by convolutional neural network and gated recurrent unit. Specially, the spatial-temporal correlations of the interface usages are abstracted via an attention strategy and explored for accurate session traffic decomposition. Through extensive trace-driven experiments, we show that our X-Rayer provides more accurate results by decreasing the average RMSE in the interface usage prediction by 33.25% and 33.71%, and session traffic estimation by 18.05%, 27.04%, 21.91%, and 16.43%, compared to state-of-the-art approaches.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"400-411"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50280166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EPPFM: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Querying of Electronic Medical Records With Forward Privacy in Multiuser Setting","authors":"Chang Xu;Zijian Chan;Liehuang Zhu;Can Zhang;Rongxing Lu;Yunguo Guan","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3257223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3257223","url":null,"abstract":"With the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, the eHealthcare industry has developed markedly, attracting many patients to seek medical treatment in an eHealthcare system. However, for patients who first register in the system, due to lack of experience, an important aspect is to choose appropriate medical services. Considering the sensitivity of health care data and the semi-honest nature of the cloud server, it is a good solution to use searchable encryption (SE) to obtain some historical electronic medical records (EMRs) that are consistent with the patient's symptom keyword combination and have high service scores for reference. However, existing SE schemes still have issues meeting the requirements of the eHealthcare system for flexible authorization and revocation, efficiency, and forward privacy. To resolve these issues, we propose two efficient and privacy-preserving electronic medical records query schemes with forward privacy in a multiuser setting (EPPFM). First, we present the basic scheme EPPFM-I to achieve a multiuser multikeyword exact match query under linear search complexity. In EPPFM-I, we also use the pseudorandom function (PRF) to perform the function of forward privacy. Then, we use a bucket structure to construct the improved scheme EPPFM-II, which has a faster-than-linear search complexity. Finally, we use detailed security analysis and extensive simulations to show the security and efficiency of the proposed schemes, respectively.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"492-503"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50280315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Survey of FPGA Optimization Methods for Data Center Energy Efficiency","authors":"Mattia Tibaldi;Christian Pilato","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3273852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3273852","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a survey of academic literature about field programmable gate array (FPGA) and their utilization for energy efficiency acceleration in data centers. The goal is to critically present the existing FPGAs energy optimization techniques and discuss how they can be applied to such systems. To do so, the article explores current energy trends and their projection to the future with particular attention to the requirements set out by the \u0000<italic>European Code of Conduct for Data Center Energy Efficiency</i>\u0000. The article then proposes a complete analysis of over ten years of research in energy optimization techniques, classifying them by purpose, method of application, and impacts on the sources of consumption. Finally, we conclude with the challenges and possible innovations we expect for this sector.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"343-362"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50280163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Edge-Enhanced QoS Aware Compression Learning for Sustainable Data Stream Analytics","authors":"Maryleen Uluaku Amaizu;Muhammad K. Ali;Ashiq Anjum;Lu Liu;Antonio Liotta;Omer Rana","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3252039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3252039","url":null,"abstract":"Existing Cloud systems involve large volumes of data streams being sent to a centralised data centre for monitoring, storage and analytics. However, migrating all the data to the cloud is often not feasible due to cost, privacy, and performance concerns. However, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms typically require significant computational resources, hence cannot be directly deployed on resource-constrained edge devices for learning and analytics. Edge-enhanced compressive offloading becomes a sustainable solution that allows data to be compressed at the edge and offloaded to the cloud for further analysis, reducing bandwidth consumption and communication latency. The design and implementation of a learning method for discovering compression techniques that offer the best QoS for an application is described. The approach uses a novel modularisation approach that maps features to models and classifies them for a range of Quality of Service (QoS) features. An automated QoS-aware orchestrator has been designed to select the best autoencoder model in real-time for compressive offloading in edge-enhanced clouds based on changing QoS requirements. The orchestrator has been designed to have diagnostic capabilities to search appropriate parameters that give the best compression. A key novelty of this work is harnessing the capabilities of autoencoders for edge-enhanced compressive offloading based on portable encodings, latent space splitting and fine-tuning network weights. Considering how the combination of features lead to different QoS models, the system is capable of processing a large number of user requests in a given time. The proposed hyperparameter search strategy (over the neural architectural space) reduces the computational cost of search through the entire space by up to 89%. When deployed on an edge-enhanced cloud using an Azure IoT testbed, the approach saves up to 70% data transfer costs and takes 32% less time for job completion. It eliminates the additional computational cost of decompression, thereby reducing the processing cost by up to 30%.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"448-464"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50400593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emission-Aware Sustainable Energy Provision for 5G and B5G Mobile Networks","authors":"Adil Israr;Qiang Yang;Ali Israr","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3271789","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3271789","url":null,"abstract":"A massive number of small cell base stations are expected to be deployed in the 5G and beyond 5G mobile communication networks due to the exponential increase in mobile traffic. This will directly lead to not only a significant increase in energy consumption but also the overall operational cost and carbon footprint. An energy provision based on renewable energy generation to power these small cell base stations is considered a sustainable and promising solution to address this challenge. This paper exploits the cost-effective and low-carbon energy provision solution for individual small-cell mobile networks and presents two different potential frameworks, i.e., centralized and distributed energy provision, respectively. The former supplies nearby small cell base stations through a centralized renewable energy source with energy storage facilities. For the latter, small cell base stations can be supplied by utilizing local renewable energy and storage facilities. These two frameworks are assessed and compared in terms of renewable energy utilization and carbon emission reduction in the presence of time-varying traffic loads, small cell locations and renewable energy availabilities. In addition, we devise energy management for these configurations by incorporating a resource-on-demand strategy in the proposed framework. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed centralized renewable energy generation strategy for nearby small cells maximizes the cost and energy efficiencies of the network.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 4","pages":"670-681"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79428951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fast Human-in-the-Loop Control for HVAC Systems via Meta-Learning and Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Liangliang Chen;Fei Meng;Ying Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3251302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3251302","url":null,"abstract":"Reinforcement learning (RL) methods can be used to develop a controller for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems that both saves energy and ensures high occupants’ thermal comfort levels. However, the existing works typically require on-policy data to train an RL agent, and the occupants’ personalized thermal preferences are not considered, which is limited in the real-world scenarios. This paper designs a high-performance model-based offline RL algorithm for personalized HVAC systems. The proposed algorithm can quickly adapt to different occupants’ thermal preferences with a few thermal feedbacks, guaranteeing the high occupants’ personalized thermal comfort levels efficiently. First, we use a meta-supervised learning algorithm to train an occupant's thermal preference model. Then, we train an ensemble neural network to predict the thermal states of the considered zone. In addition, the obtained ensemble networks can indicate the regions in the state and action spaces covered by the offline dataset. With the personalized thermal preference model updated via meta-testing, model-based RL is used to derive the optimal HVAC controller. Since the proposed algorithm only requires offline datasets and a few online thermal feedbacks for training, it contributes to a more practical deployment of the RL algorithm to HVAC systems. We use the ASHRAE database II to verify the effectiveness and advantage of the meta-learning algorithm for modeling different occupants’ thermal preferences. Numerical simulations on the EnergyPlus environment demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can guarantee personalized thermal preferences with a slight increase of power consumption of 1.91% compared with the model-based RL algorithm with on-policy data aggregation.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"504-521"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50280316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fine-Grained Online Energy Management of Edge Data Centers Using Per-Core Power Gating and Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling","authors":"Shoulu Hou;Wei Ni;Kailan Zhao;Bo Cheng;Shuai Zhao;Zhiguo Wan;Xiulei Liu;Shiping Chen","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3250487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3250487","url":null,"abstract":"It is important to minimize the energy consumption of large-scale, geographically distributed edge data centers (EDCs). While modern processing units (PUs) have energy-saving features like Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and Per-Core Power Gating (PCPG), optimization is still complex and requires a holistic approach. This article presents a new decentralized, three-timescale, online optimization approach that enables multicore micro data centers (MDCs) to optimize their per-PU power states, per-enabled-PU voltage-frequency levels and offloading schedules at three different timescales. The key idea is that we employ multi-timescale Lyapunov optimization to decouple the energy minimization between workload scheduling and result delivery at a small timescale and PU configuration at large timescales. Another important aspect is that we apply the primal decomposition to decouple the PU configuration between a per-enabled-PU voltage-frequency level at an intermediate timescale and a per-PU power state at a large timescale. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach improves energy efficiency significantly by up to 4.5 times in our considered lightly loaded situations where DVFS alone does not work effectively, compared to existing benchmarks.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"522-536"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50400592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defect Prediction via Tree-Based Encoding with Hybrid Granularity for Software Sustainability","authors":"Shaojian Qiu;Huihao Huang;Wenchao Jiang;Fanlong Zhang;Weilin Zhou","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3248965","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3248965","url":null,"abstract":"Defects in software may result in system crashes, sluggish performance, or even deadlock, leading to the depletion of valuable resources. Implementing defect prediction can assist quality assurance teams in identifying potential software issues and rationalizing the allocation of testing resources, thereby decreasing the elimination of resources and enhancing software sustainability. Researchers have recently incorporated deep learning into defect prediction, extracting structural-semantic features from codes’ abstract syntax trees (ASTs). However, inappropriate node granularity in ASTs may adversely impact the effectiveness of the extracted features. In addition, converting AST nodes into integer vectors may lead to the loss of structure information, resulting in poor model predictive capability. This paper proposes a tree-based encoding method with hybrid granularity for defect prediction to address these challenges. Specifically, five granularity selection schemes are extended to generate various ASTs from codes. Subsequently, a tree-based continuous bag-of-words model is utilized to map nodes of ASTs into numeric vector representations that conform to the tree-like structure of codes. The matrices converted from ASTs are then fed into a convolutional neural network to extract program features automatically. Experiments involving 24 versions of open-source projects demonstrate that our method can improve the effectiveness of extracted features in defect prediction tasks.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"9 3","pages":"249-260"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74652697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying and Protecting Cyber-Physical Systems’ Influential Devices for Sustainable Cybersecurity","authors":"Kamal Taha","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3246087","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3246087","url":null,"abstract":"For sustainable cyber-physical systems (CPS) security, proactive measures to cybersecurity need to be implemented instead of reactive measures. Towards this, we introduce in this paper a proactive methodology implemented in a system called IDI_CPS. It is based on the observation that CPS devices that have LAN-based network sharing (e.g., via Wi-Fi connections) need first to be clustered using some clustering criterion. Then, the influential and central devices in these clusters need to be identified to pay more attention to their file sharing. These influential devices may have network sharing with devices at the WAN level. Therefore, the influential devices at the WAN level that have network sharing with the influential devices in the clusters need also to be identified to pay more attention to their file sharing. We propose novel techniques for: (1) clustering the devices that have LAN-based network sharing using k-clique modeling, (2) employing clustering coefficient-based techniques for identifying the most influential device in each cluster, and (3) employing Independent Cascades model-based techniques for identifying the influential devices at the WAN level that have network sharing with the influential devices in the clusters. We experimentally evaluated our proposed system IDI_CPS and compared it with four comparable methods. Results showed marked improvement.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 4","pages":"614-626"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87573728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ENF-S: An Evolutionary-Neuro-Fuzzy Multi-Objective Task Scheduler for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processors","authors":"Athena Abdi;Armin Salimi-Badr","doi":"10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3244081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3244081","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an evolutionary-neuro-fuzzy-based task scheduling approach (ENF-S) to jointly optimize the main critical parameters of heterogeneous multi-core systems is proposed. This approach has two phases: first, the fuzzy neural network (FNN) is trained using a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II), considering the critical parameters of heterogeneous multi-core systems on a training data set consisting of different application graphs. These critical parameters are execution time, temperature, failure rate, and power consumption. The output of the trained FNN determines the \u0000<i>criticality degree</i>\u0000 for various processing cores based on the system's current state. Next, the trained FNN is employed as an online scheduler to jointly optimize the critical objectives of multi-core systems at runtime. Due to the uncertainty in sensor measurements and the difference between computational models and reality, applying the fuzzy neural network is advantageous. The efficiency of ENF-S is investigated in various aspects including its joint optimization capability, appropriateness of generated fuzzy rules, comparison with related research, and its overhead analysis through several experiments on real-world and synthetic application graphs. Based on these experiments, our ENF-S outperforms the related studies in optimizing all design criteria. Its improvements over related methods are estimated \u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${19.21%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 in execution time, \u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${13.07%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 in temperature, \u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${25.09%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 in failure rate, and \u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${13.16%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 in power consumption, averagely.","PeriodicalId":13268,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing","volume":"8 3","pages":"479-491"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50280162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}