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Stateful migration has emerged as the dominant technology to support microservice mobility at the network edge while ensuring a satisfying experience to mobile end users. This work addresses two pivotal challenges, namely, the…
Mobile edge clouds (MECs) bring the benefits of the cloud closer to the user, by installing small cloud infrastructures at the network edge. This enables a new breed of real-time applications, such as instantaneous object recognition and…
The widespread adoption of microservices architecture in modern software systems has emphasized the need for efficient management of distributed services. While stateless microservices enable straightforward migration, stateful…
Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul…
In the ever-evolving landscape of computing, the advent of edge and fog computing has revolutionized data processing by bringing it closer to end-users. While cloud computing offers numerous advantages, including mobility, flexibility and…
Live migration of services is a prerequisite for various use cases that must be fulfilled for the realization of Industry 4.0. In addition, many different types of services need to provide mobility and consequently need to be migrated live.…
Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which pushes cloud computing capabilities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge. However, with the sinking of computing capabilities, the new challenge incurred by user…
Cloud Data Centers have become the backbone infrastructure to provide services. With the emerging edge computing paradigm, computation and networking capabilities have been pushed from clouds to the edge to provide computation,…
In mobile edge computing, local edge servers can host cloud-based services, which reduces network overhead and latency but requires service migrations as users move to new locations. It is challenging to make migration decisions optimally…
The containerized services allocated in the mobile edge clouds bring up the opportunity for large-scale and real-time applications to have low latency responses. Meanwhile, live container migration is introduced to support dynamic resource…
Cloud, fog, and edge computing integration with future mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and related applications in 5G/6G networks will become more practical in the coming years. Containers became the de facto virtualization…
As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…
Offloading computationally intensive tasks from mobile users (MUs) to a virtualized environment such as containers on a nearby edge server, can significantly reduce processing time and hence end-to-end (E2E) delay. However, when users are…
Cloud service providers are adopting Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to provide hardware-guaranteed security to applications running on remote, untrusted data centers. However, migrating such applications still relies on the…
Mobile micro-cloud is an emerging technology in distributed computing, which is aimed at providing seamless computing/data access to the edge of the network when a centralized service may suffer from poor connectivity and long latency.…
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing the computation capacities and features of mobile users by offloading complex computation tasks to the edge servers. However, mobility poses great challenges on delivering…
Service liquidity across edge-to-cloud or multi-cloud will serve as the cornerstone of the next generation of cloud computing systems (Cloud 2.0). Provided that cloud-based services are predominantly containerized, an efficient and robust…
Containerized services deployed within various computing systems, such as edge and cloud, desire live migration support to enable user mobility, elasticity, and load balancing. To enable such a ubiquitous and efficient service migration, a…
Edge computing is considered a key paradigm for supporting real-time applications over 5G networks, as hosting applications at the network edge can substantially reduce delays. A significant fraction of real-time applications over 5G are…
Service mesh is getting widely adopted as the cloud-native mechanism for traffic management in microservice-based applications, in particular for generic IT workloads hosted in more centralized cloud environments. Performance-demanding…