A Proposal of Autonomic Edge Cloud Platform with CCN-Based Service Routing Protocol

Abstract

Edge Cloud Computing is emerging as an efficient paradigm that aims at providing responsive and real-time services. By delivering the cloud services to the edges of network in the proximity to the users, the latency of transmission time can be reduced and the heavy burden on the backhaul link are avoided. However, how a third party service provider could deploy the cloud services on a specific edge nodes provided by Infrastructure Provider, how to manage cloud services resources as well as to find the existed cloud services over the network are significant issues in Edge Cloud Computing. In this paper, we introduce an autonomic edge cloud platform with CCN-based cloud service routing protocol (C-SRP) to provide a self-control mechanism for cloud services in Edge Cloud Computing. By integrating with tables defined in Content Centric Networking (CCN), C-SRP has capability of self-deploying cloud services on edge nodes, and self-discovering the cloud services over the network. We implement the autonomic edge cloud platform as well as C-SRP and measure the performance by various cloud services. The results show that our C-SRP is able to reduce the average service delay up to 50% compared with legacy cloud. In addition, it also performs service routing better than the centralized controller protocol in Edge Cloud Computing environment.