NetAP-ML: Machine Learning-Assisted Adaptive Polling Technique for Virtualized IoT Devices

Abstract

To maximize the performance of IoT devices in edge computing, an adaptive polling technique that efficiently and accurately searches for the workload-optimized polling interval is required. In this paper, we propose NetAP-ML, which utilizes a machine learning technique to shrink the search space for finding an optimal polling interval. NetAP-ML is able to minimize the performance degradation in the search process and find a more accurate polling interval with the random forest regression algorithm. We implement and evaluate NetAP-ML in a Linux system. Our experimental setup consists of a various number of virtual machines (2–4) and threads (1–5). We demonstrate that NetAP-ML provides up to 23% higher bandwidth than the state-of-the-art technique.

Keywords

• edge computing
• I/O virtualization
• adaptive polling
• machine learning