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Tactic: Unprofitable optimization

Tactic sort: Dark Tactic

Type: Unsustainable Pattern

Category: edge-computing

Tags:

Title

Unprofitable optimization

Description

Since the energy consumption of an edge computing centre is usually not very high (because of its small size and the type of devices used), there is currently no incentive for the provider to optimize resource utilization in order to save energy.

Participant

edge-provider, edge-user

Related artifact

Infrastructure

Context

Normal operation

Feature

Cost or business model, switching on/off techniques

Tactic intent

Making it not profitable to perform resource consumption optimization on the provider side

Intent measure

Level of incentives

Countermeasure

Shifting to another business model where the users are charged only for the actual time they use resources and not, as before, for reserving resources even if they are not using it. This is called serverless computing and it pushes the incentive on the provider to optimize so that they decrease the amount of idle resources, for which they will not get paid anymore.

Source

*The Dark Side of Cloud and Edge Computing* by Klervie Toczé, Maël Madon, Muriel Garcia and Patricia Lago (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.9422c084)