Follow-Me Cloud: When Cloud Services Follow Mobile Users

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cloud computing Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 369 - 382
• Main Authors: Taleb, Tarik, Ksentini, Adlen, Frangoudis, Pantelis A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE Computer Society 01.04.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); IEEE
• Subjects: 3GPP LTE; Algorithms; Anchors; cellular mobile networks; Cloud computing; Computer Science; Disruption; IP networks; Logic gates; Markov decision process; Markov processes; Migration; Mobile communication; Mobile communication systems; Mobile computing; network function virtualization; Networking and Internet Architecture; Protocols; Routing; Software-defined networking; User interfaces; Wireless communications; Wireless networks

The trend towards the cloudification of the 3GPP LTE mobile network architecture and the emergence of federated cloud infrastructures call for alternative service delivery strategies for improved user experience and efficient resource utilization. We propose Follow-Me Cloud (FMC), a design tailored...