Implementation of Dynamic Task Assignment for Smartphone Application with MEC and Cloud Servers

Abstract

In the fifth generation (5G) mobile network, it is necessary to realize ultra-low latency communication. Currently, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is attracted attention as a technology for realizing the ultra-low latency communication by using MEC servers that are placed near users. In this paper, we implement a dynamic task assignment for multi-user information sharing in smartphone application that use MEC and cloud servers. In our implementation, the MEC servers dynamically decide whether each task is processed in the MEC servers or the cloud servers. We evaluate the performance of our dynamic task assignment in our experimental system. From experimental results, we show that our task assignment can decrease a response time of each task according to the processing capability of MEC servers.