Research Area:  Edge Computing

Abstract:

There is widespread agreement that future continuous interactive (CI) applications will require edge computing capabilities from mobile networks. There is also widespread expectation that the emerging 5G network architecture, with its constituent technology components, will be the context in which this will be realized. Indeed many of the components that will be part of such an environment have been studied in standalone manner. However, the question of whether an end-to-end combination of these components would satisfy application requirements, or indeed, how these components would be combined into service offerings by mobile network providers, have not been meaningfully addressed. Towards addressing these challenges, we propose ACACIA - a service abstraction framework that enables CI applications on edge clouds in mobile networks. Evaluation of our prototype implementation shows that our holistic approach provides a 70% end-to-end application level latency reduction when compared with existing cloud and mobile solutions.

Keywords:  
Context-aware
Edge Computing
Continuous Interactive
Mobile Networks

Author(s) Name:  Junguk Cho, Karthikeyan Sundaresan ,Rajesh Mahindra ,Jacobus Van der Merwe, Sampath Rangarajan

Publisher name:  ACM

DOI:  10.1145/2999572.2999604

Volume Information:  Pages 375–389

Paper Link:   https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2999572.2999604