Understand the challenges and potentials of serverless computing for realtime networked multimedia

了解实时网络多媒体的无服务器计算的挑战和潜力

• 批准号: 543280-2019
• 负责人: Liu, Jiangchuan
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=681257
• 关键词: Understand; challenges; potentials; serverless; computing

Frozen Mountain Software, a Canadian software company based on Surrey, BC, provides advanced solutions for Internet-based realtime communication needs. Cloud computing plays an essential role in supporting Frozen Moutain's services, which handle scaling to extremely large numbers of simultaneous users. Constrained by the operation and pricing model of the prevalent Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, users inevitably need to reserve and manage cloud resources by themselves and pay for the idle server time. Further, these heavy-weight cloud server instances cannot scale up or down flexibly to meet the workloads. As a new execution model, serverless computing is emerging to overcome the weaknesses of traditional cloud computing models. It offloads the tasks of server provisioning and management from developers to platforms, and charges users at a finer-grained timescale, achieving the long-promised "pay-as-you-go" pricing strategy.In this project, a multi-disciplinary team involving researchers and engineers from both SFU and Frozen Mountain will work together to understand the potentials and challenges on applying serverless computing for networked multimedia services. We will conduct extensive measurements on leading serverless computing platforms and quantify the impact of function resource allocation (e.g., memory size), function implementation schemes (e.g., calling external APIs), allocated workload (e.g., the number of frames), and platform selection on typical networked multimedia applications. We will then start to develop novel solutions that integrate serverless computing into Frozen Mountain's products.

基于卑诗省萨里的加拿大软件公司Frezen Mountain Software为基于Internet的实时通信需求提供了高级解决方案。云计算在支持冷冻Moutain的服务方面起着至关重要的作用，该服务将缩放范围处理到大量的同时用户。受到普遍基础架构的操作和定价模型的限制，用户不可避免地需要自己保留和管理云资源，并为空闲服务器时间付费。此外，这些重量级云服务器实例无法灵活地缩放或向下扩展以满足工作量。作为一个新的执行模型，正在出现无服务器计算以克服传统云计算模型的弱点。它从开发人员到平台上卸载服务器供应和管理的任务，并向用户收费，在一个较细粒度的时间范围内，实现了长期以来的“付款方式”的定价策略。在这个项目中，一个多学科的团队，一个涉及SFU和FROZEN MOUNIORD的研究人员和工程师将与无效的服务相处，并在远方的服务中努力，以促进服务。我们将对领先的无服务器计算平台进行广泛的测量，并量化功能资源分配的影响（例如，内存大小），功能实现方案（例如调用外部API），分配的工作负载（例如，帧数）以及对典型网络多媒体应用程序的平台选择。然后，我们将开始开发将无服务器计算集成到冷冻山的产品中的新颖解决方案。