The growing number of latency-critical applications are posing novel challenges for network operators, cloud/hosting companies, and application providers. Edge Computing is the strongest candidate for providing low-latency responses, but it is not yet clear what edge infrastructures will be like. This paper introduces a new platform for enabling an edge infrastructure according to a disaggregated distributed cloud architecture and an opportunistic model based on bare-metal providers. Results from a multi-server online gaming application deployed in a real geo-distributed edge infrastructure show the feasibility, performance and cost efficiency of the solution.

延迟关键型应用程序的数量不断增加，这对网络运营商，云/托管公司和应用程序提供商提出了新的挑战。边缘计算是提供低延迟响应的最强候选者，但尚不清楚边缘基础架构将是什么样。本文介绍了一个新平台，该平台可根据分解的分布式云架构和基于裸机提供商的机会模型来启用边缘基础架构。在实际的地理分布边缘基础架构中部署的多服务器在线游戏应用程序的结果表明，该解决方案具有可行性，性能和成本效益。