Title
How Beneficial Are Intermediate Layer Data Centers in Mobile Edge Networks?
Abstract
To reduce the congestion due to the future bandwidth-hungry applications in domains such as Health care, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., we study the benefit of introducing additional Data Centers (DCs) closer to the network edge for the optimal application placement. Our study shows that the edge layer DCs in a Mobile Edge Network (MEN) infrastructure is cost beneficial for the bandwidth-hungry applications having their strong demand locality and in the scenarios where large capacity is deployed at the edge layer DCs. The cost savings for such applications can go up to 67%. Additional intermediate layer DCs close to the root DC can be marginally cost beneficial for the compute intensive applications with medium or low demand locality. Hence, a Telecom Network Operator should start building an edge DC first having capacity up to hundreds of servers at the network edge to cater the emerging bandwidth-hungry applications and to minimize its operational cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/FAS-W.2016.55
2016 IEEE 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Application Placement,Cost Optimization,Infrastructure Resource Placement,Mobile Edge Computing,Fog Computing
Conference
978-1-5090-3652-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amardeep Mehta1353.50
William Tarneberg240.45
Cristian Klein3463.82
Johan Tordsson4127666.49
Maria Kihl517422.69
Erik Elmroth61675149.84