CBUD Micro: A Micro Benchmark for Performance Measurement and Resource Management in IaaS Clouds

Cloud computing provides processing power in form of virtual machines. This processing power can be given to very big and small devices. Similarly for providing processing power, devices with small or big processing power can be utilized. These devices can also be ubiquitous computing devices. Ubiquitous computing devices present in environment may communicate with each other. Ubiquitous computing devices may also share load with each other. Spare processing power of these devices can also be used for cloud computing. An old, less powerful computing device which is capable of connecting with Internet can avail processing power of new computing devices. Problem with using spare processing power is lack of common benchmark for different types of ubiquitous computing devices. To assign proper workload in terms of processing power, devices must be tested according to one common benchmark. This paper presents the CBUDMicro (Common Benchmark for Ubiquitous Computing Devices Micro), an extendable common benchmark to evaluate performance of ubiquitous computing devices so that they can be used in cloud computing environment. CBUDMicro can be used at both cloud host and consumer side for performance and resource management by supporting scheduling decisions. This paper describes the vision and architecture of CBUDMicro in detail and core components implemented. Keywords—Benchmark, Cloud computing, Ubiquitous computing, Processing power, CBUDMicro, Workload.