FPGA Live Migration of Content‐Based Anonymization Mechanism with Network Consistency

Abstract

In smart communities, data are aggregated, and various services are provided based on it. When considering the optimization of service delivery through cooperative processing between the edge and the cloud in smart communities, it is essential to realize network transparent edge services due to the constraints of not touching end devices in order to improve user convenience and additional cost reduction. Moreover, considering the minimization of service provision and service delivery latency at the edge, it is desirable to use field‐programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which have lower power consumption, lower latency, and higher throughput than conventional processors. Additionally, to advance towards even lower latency, the distribution of processing load is important, and service migration is necessary for this purpose. Service migration is generally used to increase service availability, and even for edge services, service migration is important because the distribution of processing and the location where the service should be provided changes over time due to user mobility. When considering network transparency, service migration should be performed on the communication path between the end device and the cloud. Furthermore, to enhance service transparency, it is essential to maintain communication consistency for continuous service provision and minimize service downtime. Therefore, this study proposes a migration mechanism with FPGAs to satisfy these requirements. As an example of a real application, we target a network‐transparent data anonymization application to protect the privacy of data providers and evaluate the proposed architecture based on the reality of latency and other factors. © 2023 Institute of Electrical Engineer of Japan and Wiley Periodicals LLC.