Extented Reality (XR) refers to a class of contemporary services that are intertwined with a plethora of rather demanding Quality of Service (QoS) and functional requirements. Despite Kubernetes being the de-facto standard in terms of deploying and managing contemporary containerized microservices, it lacks adequate support for cross-cluster networking, hindering service-to-service communication across diverse cloud domains. Although there are tools that may be leveraged alongside Kubernetes in order to establish multi-cluster deployments, each one of them comes with its drawbacks and limitations. The purpose of this article is to explore the various potential technologies that may facilitate multi-cluster deployments and to propose how they may be leveraged to provide a cross-cluster connectivity solution that caters to the intricacies of XR services. The proposed solution is based on the use of two open source frameworks, namely Cluster API for multi-cluster management, and Liqo for multi-cluster interconnectivity. The efficiency of this approach is evaluated in the context of two experiments. This work is the first attempt at proposing a solution for supporting multi-cluster deployments in a manner that is aligned with the requirements of XR services
@article{arxiv.2405.00558,
title = {Cross-Cluster Networking to Support Extended Reality Services},
author = {Theodoros Theodoropoulos and Luis Rosa and Abderrahmane Boudi and Tarik Zakaria Benmerar and Antonios Makris and Tarik Taleb and Luis Cordeiro and Konstantinos Tserpes and JaeSeung Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00558},
year = {2024}
}