On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures

Ilir Murturi, Chao Jia, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer, Schahram Dustdar, Christos Tsigkanos

2021

Abstract

Contemporary applications such as those within Augmented or Virtual Reality (AR/VR) pose challenges for software architectures supporting them, which have to adhere to stringent latency, data transmission, and performance requirements. This manifests in processing 3D models, whose 3D contents are increasingly generated procedurally rather than explicitly, resulting in computational workloads (i.e., perceived as Procedural Geometry Workloads) with particular characteristics and resource requirements. Traditionally, executing such workloads takes place in resource-rich environments such as the cloud. However, the massive amount of data transfer, heterogeneous devices, and networks involved affect latency, which in turn causes low-quality visualization in user-facing applications (e.g., AR/VR). To overcome such challenges, processing elements available close to end users can be leveraged to generate 3D models instead, and as such the edge emerges as a central architectural entity. This paper describes such procedural geometry workloads, their particular characteristics, and challenges to execute them on heterogeneous devices. Furthermore, we propose an architecture capable of provisioning procedural geometry workloads in edge scenarios.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Murturi I., Jia C., Kerbl B., Wimmer M., Dustdar S. and Tsigkanos C. (2021). On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-536-4, pages 354-359. DOI: 10.5220/0010687800003058

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist21,
author={Ilir Murturi and Chao Jia and Bernhard Kerbl and Michael Wimmer and Schahram Dustdar and Christos Tsigkanos},
title={On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2021},
pages={354-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010687800003058},
isbn={978-989-758-536-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - On Provisioning Procedural Geometry Workloads on Edge Architectures
SN - 978-989-758-536-4
AU - Murturi I.
AU - Jia C.
AU - Kerbl B.
AU - Wimmer M.
AU - Dustdar S.
AU - Tsigkanos C.
PY - 2021
SP - 354
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0010687800003058