Computer Science

An Experimental study on the impact of execution location in edge-cloud computing

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

On the one hand, edge computing has the advantage of distributing the load to the edges of a computer network. Local computation at the edge is bandwidth-efficient and anonymous. On the other hand, cloud computing is the choice when it comes to computationally demanding tasks and big data. In this paper, we argue for edge-cloud computing (which blends the two together) with an experimental study on the impact of execution location on application performance. We answer the question of how to determine whether it should compute a task at the edge or on the cloud and what the criteria are. We analyze the factors of response time, memory space, data availability and privacy policy. We experimentally evaluate the impact of these factors on execution location based on a network visualizer software.

Publication Title

Proceedings - 2020 6th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BigCom 2020

Publication Date

2020

First Page

145

Last Page

151

ISBN

9781728182759

DOI

10.1109/BigCom51056.2020.00028

Keywords

cloud computing, edge computing, location of execution

APA Citation

Melissourgos, D., Wang, S., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Odegbile, O., & Wang, Y. (2020, July). An Experimental Study on the Impact of Execution Location in Edge-Cloud Computing. In 2020 6th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM) (pp. 145-151). IEEE.

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