ASALP: An Automatic Scaling Architecture for Edge Node Resources Based on Load Prediction

  • Hui Liu
  • , Hui Xiang
  • , Yong Wu
  • , Zeguang Liu
  • , Junzhao Du*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Edge computing provides inherent advantages of low latency and user proximity; however, it encounters significant challenges in achieving resource elasticity and balancing dynamic traffic loads. The default scaling mechanism in Kubernetes, the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), adopts a reactive strategy that restricts its capacity to address real-time demands and exhibits limited effectiveness in edge environments. To overcome these limitations, we introduce ASALP (Automatic Scaling Architecture for Edge Node Resources based on Load Prediction), which augments the Kubernetes–KubeEdge framework with an enhanced RWKV-EFE load prediction model and incorporates Nginx, Consul, and Prometheus to enable dynamic load balancing. Evaluated on the MQPS dataset, RWKV-EFE achieves substantially lower mean squared error (MSE) and mean absolute error (MAE), reducing them by 28.71% and 12.58% compared with FEDformer, and by 77.24% and 53.88% compared with Autoformer. Furthermore, in comparison with HPA, THPA, reactive ASALP, and ASALP-FEDformer, ASALP improves the request success rate by 57.17%, 21.33%, 14.62%, and 7.59%, respectively, while also alleviating the adverse effects of unstable communication links. These experimental results confirm the effectiveness of ASALP in enabling efficient resource scaling and load balancing for real-world edge computing deployments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetwork and Parallel Computing - 21st IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference, NPC 2025, Proceedings
EditorsXiaoliang Wang, Baoliu Ye, Xiaohong Jiang, Noel Crespi
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages386-398
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783032104656
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event21st IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2025 - Nha Trang, Viet Nam
Duration: 14 Nov 202516 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume16306 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2025
Country/TerritoryViet Nam
CityNha Trang
Period14/11/2516/11/25

Keywords

  • Edge Autonomy
  • Horizontal Auto Scaler
  • KubeEdge
  • Kubernetes
  • Time Series Prediction

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