Follow Me, If You Can: A Framework for Seamless Migration in Mobile Edge Cloud

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Abstract

Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) enables cloud services in the proximity of user equipments. MEC will be greatly beneficial to various latency-sensitive applications such as autonomous cars and augmented reality/virtual reality applications. The challenge is to maintain an uninterrupted service in the presence of user's mobility. In maintaining a consistent state of MEC application, we advocate the decoupling of the state storage component from the computing one. We leverage a key-value storage layer to synchronize states between MEC servers. Subsequently, we propose a distributed key-value store framework, which decouples MEC application design into processing and state, to ensure service continuity. Evaluation results show that our solution reduces downtime by half in most of the cases, even under high load of state update. Furthermore, under moderate load of state updates, the framework can eliminate downtime completely.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
PublisherIEEE Communications Society, New York
Pages1178-1183
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)978-1-7281-8696-2
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jul 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Abbreviated titleIEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS 2020
Duration6 - 9 July 2020
Locationonline
CityToronto
CountryCanada

External IDs

Ieee 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162992
Scopus 85091477146
ORCID /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/142248634
ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891005

Keywords

Keywords

  • Servers, Cloud computing, Indexes, Process control, Synchronization, Operating systems, Data structures