A Decentralized Framework for Serverless Edge Computing in the Internet of Things

Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function calls. The current technologies are very well suited to data...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE eTransactions on network and service management Jg. 18; H. 2; S. 2166 - 2180
Hauptverfasser:	Cicconetti, Claudio, Conti, Marco, Passarella, Andrea
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	New York IEEE 01.06.2021 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:	Cloud computing Computational modeling Computer architecture Computer networks Computer programming computer simulation experiments Data centers Edge computing Gateways Internet of Things Internet of Things services overlay networks Peer-to-peer computing Sequences software-defined networking Statelessness Task analysis
ISSN:	1932-4537, 1932-4537
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Abstract	Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function calls. The current technologies are very well suited to data centers, but cannot provide equally good performance in decentralized environments, such as edge computing systems, which are expected to be typical for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this article, we fill this gap by proposing a framework for efficient dispatching of stateless tasks to in-network executors so as to minimize the response times while exhibiting short- and long-term fairness, also leveraging information from a virtualized network infrastructure when available. Our solution is shown to be simple enough to be installed on devices with limited computational capabilities, such as IoT gateways, especially when using a hierarchical forwarding extension. We evaluate the proposed platform by means of extensive emulation experiments with a prototype implementation in realistic conditions. The results show that it is able to smoothly adapt to the mobility of clients and to the variations of their service request patterns, while coping promptly with network congestion.
AbstractList	Serverless computing is becoming widely adopted among cloud providers, thus making increasingly popular the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model, where the developers realize services by packaging sequences of stateless function calls. The current technologies are very well suited to data centers, but cannot provide equally good performance in decentralized environments, such as edge computing systems, which are expected to be typical for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In this article, we fill this gap by proposing a framework for efficient dispatching of stateless tasks to in-network executors so as to minimize the response times while exhibiting short- and long-term fairness, also leveraging information from a virtualized network infrastructure when available. Our solution is shown to be simple enough to be installed on devices with limited computational capabilities, such as IoT gateways, especially when using a hierarchical forwarding extension. We evaluate the proposed platform by means of extensive emulation experiments with a prototype implementation in realistic conditions. The results show that it is able to smoothly adapt to the mobility of clients and to the variations of their service request patterns, while coping promptly with network congestion.
Author	Passarella, Andrea Cicconetti, Claudio Conti, Marco
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