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Efficient Live Migration of Edge Services Leveraging Container Layered Storage

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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 18, Issue 9

Pages 2020 - 2033

https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2871842

Published: 01 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile users across edge networks require seamless migration of offloading services. Edge computing platforms must smoothly support these service transfers and keep pace with user movements around the network. However, live migration of offloading services in the wide area network poses significant service handoff challenges in the edge computing environment. In this paper, we propose an edge computing platform architecture which supports seamless migration of offloading services while also keeping the moving mobile user “in service” with its nearest edge server. We identify a critical problem in the state-of-the-art tool for Docker container migration. Based on our systematic study of the Docker container storage system, we propose to leverage the layered nature of the storage system to reduce file system synchronization overhead, without dependence on the distributed file system. In contrast to the state-of-the-art service handoff method in the edge environment, our system yields a 80 percent (56 percent) reduction in handoff time under 5 Mbps (20 Mbps) network bandwidth conditions.

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IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Volume 18, Issue 9

Sept. 2019

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