Seamless parallelism management for video stream processing on multi-cores

Video streaming applications have critical performance requirements for dealing with fluctuating workloads and providing results in real-time. As a consequence, the majority of these applications demand parallelism for delivering quality of service to users. Although high-level and structured parallel programming aims at facilitating parallelism exploitation, there are still several issues to be addressed for increasing/improving existing parallel programming abstractions. In this paper, we aim at employing self-adaptivity for stream processing in order to seamlessly manage the application parallelism configurations at run-time, where a new strategy alleviates from application programmers the need to set time-consuming and error-prone parallelism parameters. The new strategy was implemented and validated on SPar. The results have shown that the proposed solution increases the level of abstraction and achieved a competitive performance.