Evaluating Performance of Containerized IoT Services for Clustered Devices at the Network Edge

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1019-1030

  Morabito, Roberto ^a   Farris, Ivan ^b,c   Iera, Antonio ^b,d   Taleb, Tarik ^c  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Container virtualization; Internet of Things (IoT); multi access edge computing; service orchestration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029470221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23274662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2714638     Document Type: Article

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