Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture
[Submitted on 25 Feb 2019 (v1), last revised 27 Mar 2020 (this version, v3)]
Title:Edge Federation: Towards an Integrated Service Provisioning Model
View PDFAbstract:Edge computing is a promising computing paradigm for pushing the cloud service to the network edge. To this end, edge infrastructure providers (EIPs) need to bring computation and storage resources to the network edge and allow edge service providers (ESPs) to provision latency-critical services to users. Currently, EIPs prefer to establish a series of private edge-computing environments to serve specific requirements of users. This kind of resource provisioning mechanism severely limits the development and spread of edge computing for serving diverse user requirements. To this end, we propose an integrated resource provisioning model, named edge federation, to seamlessly realize the resource cooperation and service provisioning across standalone edge computing providers and clouds. To efficiently schedule and utilize the resources across multiple EIPs, we systematically characterize the provisioning process as a large-scale linear programming (LP) problem and transform it into an easily solved form. Accordingly, we design a dynamic algorithm to tackle the varying service demands from users. We conduct extensive experiments over the base station networks in Toronto city. Compared with the existing fixed contract model and multihoming model, edge federation can reduce the overall cost of EIPs by 23.3% to 24.5%, and 15.5% to 16.3%, respectively.
Submission history
From: Xiaofeng Cao [view email][v1] Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:57:28 UTC (3,776 KB)
[v2] Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:04:32 UTC (3,784 KB)
[v3] Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:30:21 UTC (4,056 KB)
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