Title
A Microservice Store for Efficient Edge Offloading
Abstract
Current edge computing frameworks require tight coupling between mobile clients and surrogates, i.e., the offloaded code has been preconfigured with its required execution environment. In many cases, this includes prior transfers of code blocks or execution environments from mobile devices to the offloading infrastructure. This approach incurs additional latency and is detrimental for the energy consumption of the mobile devices. In this paper, we propose the concept of a microservice store. Using the microservice abstraction common in software development and following the serverless paradigm, we envision a repository through which said services are made accessible to developers and can be re-used across applications. We implement a proof-of-concept edge computing system based on a microservice repository and demonstrate its benefits with real-world applications on mobile devices. Our results show that we were able to reduce latencies by up to 14x and save up to 94% of battery life.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014114
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
edge computing,fog computing,microservices,serverless,computation offloading,cyber foraging
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Gedeon100.34
Martin Franz-Xaver Wagner201.01
Jens Heuschkel364.57
Lin Wang422032.09
Max Mühlhäuser51652252.87