Edge-as-a-Service: Towards Distributed Cloud Architectures

Blesson Varghese; Nan Wang; Jianyu Li; Dimitrios S.  Nikolopoulos

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-843-3-784

Edge-as-a-Service: Towards Distributed Cloud Architectures

Blesson Varghese, Nan Wang, Jianyu Li, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

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We present an Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform for realising distributed cloud architectures and integrating the edge of the network in the computing ecosystem. The EaaS platform is underpinned by (i) a lightweight discovery protocol that identifies edge nodes and make them publicly accessible in a computing environment, and (ii) a scalable resource provisioning mechanism for offloading workloads from the cloud on to the edge for servicing multiple user requests. We validate the feasibility of EaaS on an online game use-case to highlight the improvement in the QoS of the application hosted on our cloud-edge platform. On this platform we demonstrate (i) low overheads of less than 6%, (ii) reduced data traffic to the cloud by up to 95% and (iii) minimised application latency between 40%-60%

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Parallel Computing
Pages	784-793
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-843-3-784
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2017
Event	International Conference on Parallel Computing - Bologna, Italy Duration: 12 Sept 2017 → 15 Sept 2017

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Name	Advances in Parallel Computing
Publisher	IOS Press
ISSN (Print)	0927-5452

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Conference	International Conference on Parallel Computing
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	12/09/2017 → 15/09/2017

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