Title
Empowering Low-Latency Applications Through a Serverless Edge Computing Architecture.
Abstract
The exponential increase of the data generated by pervasive and mobile devices requires disrupting approaches for the realization of emerging mobile and IoT applications. Although cloud computing provides virtually unlimited computational resources, low-latency applications cannot afford the high latencies introduced by sending and retrieving data from/to the cloud. In this scenario, edge computing appears as a promising solution by bringing computation and data near to users and devices. However, the resource-finite nature of edge servers constrains the possibility of deploying full applications on them. To cope with these problems, we propose a serverless architecture at the edge, bringing a highly scalable, intelligent and cost-effective use of edge infrastructure's resources with minimal configuration and operation efforts. The feasibility of our approach is shown through an augmented reality use case for mobile devices, in which we offload computation and data intensive tasks from the devices to serverless functions at the edge, outperforming the cloud alternative up to 80% in terms of throughput and latency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-67262-5_15
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Serverless architectures,Edge computing,Mobile Edge Computing,Low-latency applications
Edge computing,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Augmented reality,Mobile edge computing,Mobile device,Latency (engineering),Scalability,Cloud computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10465
0302-9743
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.97
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luciano Baresi12533172.62
Danilo F. Mendonça2211.91
Martin Garriga3647.87