From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms

Mengwei Xu, Zhe Fu, Xiao Ma, Li Zhang, Yanan Li, Feng Qian, Shangguang Wang, Ke Li, Jingyu Yang, Xuanzhe Liu

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Abstract

Public edge platforms have drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry. In this study, we perform a first-of-its-kind measurement study on a leading public edge platform that has been densely deployed in China. Based on this measurement, we quantitatively answer two critical yet unexplored questions. First, from end users' perspective, what is the performance of commodity edge platforms compared to cloud, in terms of the end-to-end network delay, throughput, and the application QoE. Second, from the edge service provider's perspective, how are the edge workloads different from cloud, in terms of their VM subscription, monetary cost, and resource usage. Our study quantitatively reveals the status quo of today's public edge platforms, and provides crucial insights towards developing and operating future edge services.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIMC 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Internet Measurement Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages37-53
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781450391290
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2 2021
Event21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Nov 2 2021Nov 4 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Conference

Conference21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period11/2/2111/4/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

  • edge computing
  • measurement study
  • workloads analysis

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