Service Placement and Request Routing in MEC Networks With Storage, Computation, and Communication Constraints

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1047 - 1060
• Main Authors: Poularakis, Konstantinos, Llorca, Jaime, Tulino, Antonia M., Taylor, Ian, Tassiulas, Leandros
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Approximation algorithms; Augmented reality; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Cloud computing; Edge computing; Heuristic algorithms; IEEE transactions; joint optimization; Mobile computing; mobile edge computing; Network latency; Optimization; Placement; Rounding; Routing; Servers; Service placement; System effectiveness
• ISSN: 1063-6692; 1558-2566
• DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2020.2980175

The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing centralized cloud systems. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to be...