Mobile Edge Computing Resources Optimization: A Geo-Clustering Approach

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 787-796

  Bouet, Mathieu ^a   Conan, Vania ^a  

^a THALES   (France)

Author keywords

clustering; dimensioning; fog computing; Mobile edge computing; multi access edge computing; network virtualization

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; EDGE COMPUTING; FOG COMPUTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

CLUSTERING; DIMENSIONING; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; MULTIACCESS; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85044070269     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2816263     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC); Service Scenarios, ETSI Standard GS MEC-IEG 004, Nov. 2015.
2. OpenFog Architecture Overview, Fremont, CA, USA, OpenFog Consortium Archit. Working Group, White Paper OPFWP001.0216, Feb. 2016.
3. Y. C. Hu, M. Patel, D. Sabella, N. Sprecher, and V. Youngand, Mobile Edge Computing a Key Technology Towards 5G, Sophia Antipolis, France, ETSI, White Paper 11, Sep. 2015.
4. P. L. Ventre et al., "Performance evaluation and tuning of virtual infrastructure managers for (micro) virtual network functions," in Proc. IEEE NFV-SDN Conf., Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 141-147.
5. R. Saunders, J. Cho, A. Banerjee, F. Rocha, and J. Van der Merwe, "P2P offloading in mobile networks using SDN," in Proc. ACM Symp. SDN Res. (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2016, Art. no. 3.
6. M. Jia, W. Liang, Z. Xu, and M. Huang, "Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 1-9.
7. H. Wang, F. Xu, Y. Li, P. Zhang, and D. Jin, "Understanding mobile traffic patterns of large scale cellular towers in urban environment," in Proc. ACM Internet Meas. Conf. (IMC), Tokyo, Japan, 2015, pp. 225-238.
8. D. Naboulsi, M. Fiore, S. Ribot, and R. Stanica, "Large-scale mobile traffic analysis: A survey," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 124-161, 1st Quart., 2015.
9. N. Tastevin and M. Bouet, "Characterizing and modeling the distance of mobile calls: A metropolitan case study," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Pers. Indoor Mobile Radio Commun. (PIMRC), Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2016, pp. 1-6.
10. Z. A. Qazi et al., "KLEIN: A minimally disruptive design for an elastic cellular core," in Proc. ACM Symp. SDN Res. (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2016, Art. no. 2.
11. M. Bouet and V. Conan, "Geo-partitioning of MEC resources," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop Mobile Edge Commun. (MECOMM), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 43-48.
12. T. Taleb et al., "On multi-access edge computing: A survey of the emerging 5G network edge cloud architecture and orchestration," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1657-1681, 3rd Quart., 2017.
13. P. Mach and Z. Becvar, "Mobile edge computing: A survey on architecture and computation offloading," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1628-1656, 3rd Quart., 2017.
14. Y. Mao, C. You, J. Zhang, K. Huang, and K. B. Letaief, "A survey on mobile edge computing: The communication perspective," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2322-2358, 4th Quart., 2017.
15. A. Ceselli, M. Premoli, and S. Secci, "Mobile edge cloud network design optimization," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1818-1831, Jun. 2017.
16. Q. Xu et al., "Cellular data network infrastructure characterization and implication on mobile content placement," in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, CA, USA, 2011, pp. 317-328.
17. C.-Y. Chang, K. Alexandris, N. Nikaein, K. Katsalis, and T. Spyropoulos, "MEC architectural implications for LTE/LTE-A networks," in Proc. Workshop Mobility Evolving Internet Archit. (MobiArch), New York, NY, USA, 2016, pp. 13-18.
18. F. Manco et al., "The case for the superfluid cloud," in Proc. USENIX HotCloud Workshop, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2015, p. 7.
19. M. Satyanarayanan, P. Bahl, R. Caceres, and N. Davies, "The case for VM-based cloudlets in mobile computing," IEEE Pervasive Comput., vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 14-23, Oct./Dec. 2009.
20. D. Liu, B. Chen, C. Yang, and A. F. Molisch, "Caching at the wireless edge: Design aspects, challenges, and future directions," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 22-28, Sep. 2016.
21. L. Tong, Y. Li, and W. Gao, "A hierarchical edge cloud architecture for mobile computing," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Comput. Commun. (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 1-9.
22. H. Tan, Z. Han, X.-Y. Li, and F. C. M. Lau, "Online job dispatching and scheduling in edge-clouds," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Comput. Commun. (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2017, pp. 1-9.
23. S. Vicente, V. Kolmogorov, and C. Rother, "Graph cut based image segmentation with connectivity priors," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., Anchorage, AK, USA, 2008, pp. 1-8.
24. V. D. Blondel, J.-L. Guillaume, R. Lambiotte, and E. Mech, "Fast unfolding of communities in large networks," J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp., vol. 2008, pp. 1-12, Oct. 2008, doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/10/P10008.
25. P. Erdös and A. Rényi, "On the evolution of random graphs," Bull. Inst. Int. Stat., vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 343-347, 1961.
26. (2014). Open Big Data. Accessed: Mar. 23, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://dandelion.eu/datamine/open-big-data/
27. G. Barlacchi et al., "A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino," Sci. Data, vol. 2, Oct. 2015, Art. no. 150055.
28. (2016). IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer. [Online]. Available: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/optimization/cplex-optimizer/