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Resource Management for Power-Constrained HEVC Transcoding Using Reinforcement Learning

Costero, Luis
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Iranfar, Arman  
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Zapater Sancho, Marina  
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2020
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

The advent of online video streaming services along with the users' demand for high-quality contents require High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which provides higher quality and compression at the cost of increased complexity. On one hand, HEVC exposes a set of dynamically tunable parameters to provide trade-offs among Quality-of-Service (QoS), performance, and power consumption of multi-core servers. On the other hand, resource management of modern multi-core servers is in charge of adapting system-level parameters, as operating frequency and multithreading, to deal with concurrent applications and their requirements. Therefore, efficient multi-user HEVC streaming necessitates joint adaptation of application- and system-level parameters. Nonetheless, dealing with such a large and dynamic design-space is difficult to address through conventional strategies. In this work, we develop a multiagent Reinforcement Learning framework to jointly adjust application- and system-level parameters at runtime to satisfy the QoS of multi-user HEVC streaming in power-constrained servers. The benefits of our approach are revealed in terms of adaptability and quality (up to to 4x improvements in terms of QoS when compared to a static scheme), and learning time (6x faster than an equivalent mono-agent implementation). Finally, we show how power-capping techniques formulated outperform the hardware-based power capping with respect to quality.

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DOI
10.1109/TPDS.2020.3004735
Author(s)
Costero, Luis
Iranfar, Arman  
Zapater Sancho, Marina  
D. Igual, Francisco
Olcoz, Katzalin
Atienza Alonso, David  
Date Issued

2020

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Volume

31

Issue

12

Start page

2834

End page

2850

Subjects

Resource Management

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DVFS

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Power Capping

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Reinforcement learning

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Q-Learning

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HEVC

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self-adaptation

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June 26, 2020
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