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%.
@article{arxiv.1710.10090,
title = {Edge-as-a-Service: Towards Distributed Cloud Architectures},
author = {Blesson Varghese and Nan Wang and Jianyu Li and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10090},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages; presented at the EdgeComp Symposium 2017; will appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing, 2017