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Orchestrating Service Migration for Low Power MEC-Enabled IoT Devices
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key enabling technology for Fifth
Generation (5G) mobile networks. MEC facilitates distributed cloud computing
capabilities and information technology service environment for applications
and services at the edges of mobile networks. This architectural modification
serves to reduce congestion, latency, and improve the performance of such edge
colocated applications and devices. In this paper, we demonstrate how reactive
service migration can be orchestrated for low-power MEC-enabled Internet of
Things (IoT) devices. Here, we use open-source Kubernetes as container
orchestration system. Our demo is based on traditional client-server system
from user equipment (UE) over Long Term Evolution (LTE) to the MEC server. As
the use case scenario, we post-process live video received over web real-time
communication (WebRTC). Next, we integrate orchestration by Kubernetes with S1
handovers, demonstrating MEC-based software defined network (SDN). Now, edge
applications may reactively follow the UE within the radio access network
(RAN), expediting low-latency. The collected data is used to analyze the
benefits of the low-power MEC-enabled IoT device scheme, in which end-to-end
(E2E) latency and power requirements of the UE are improved. We further discuss
the challenges of implementing such schemes and future research directions
therein
Size Matters: Microservices Research and Applications
In this chapter we offer an overview of microservices providing the
introductory information that a reader should know before continuing reading
this book. We introduce the idea of microservices and we discuss some of the
current research challenges and real-life software applications where the
microservice paradigm play a key role. We have identified a set of areas where
both researcher and developer can propose new ideas and technical solutions.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.0735
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