Dynamic Service Provisioning in the Edge-Cloud Continuum With Bounded Resources

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Authors: Cohen, Itamar, Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana, Giaccone, Paolo, Scalosub, Gabriel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 5G mobile communication; Algorithms; Central processing units; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Costs; CPUs; Delays; Edge computing; IEEE transactions; Placement; Provisioning; Resource allocation; Service function chaining; Topology; Virtual networks
• ISSN: 1063-6692; 1558-2566
• DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2023.3271674

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing the corresponding chain properly and allocating a suitable...