@misc{16078,
  keywords = {Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool), 5G, Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Multi-Cloud Computing},
  author = {Thomas Dreibholz and Somnath Mazumdar},
  title = {Reliable Server Pooling Based Workload Offloading with Mobile Edge Computing: A Proof-of-Concept},
  abstract = {In recent times, mobile broadband devices have become almost ubiquitous. However, battery-powered devices (such as smartphones), have limitations on energy consumption, computation power and storage space. Cloud computing, and in particular with the upcoming 5G networks, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) can provide compute and storage services at the vicinity of the user (with a low communication latency). However, the complexity lies in how to simply and efficiently realise MEC services, with the auxiliary public (multi-)cloud resources? In this paper, we propose a proof-of-concept of using Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) as a light-weight layer of managing resource pools and handling application sessions with these pools. Our approach is simple, efficient, has low overhead and is available as open-source. Here, we demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by measuring in a test setup, with a 4G testbed connected to MEC and public multi-cloud resources.},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2021)},
  pages = {582-593},
  publisher = {Springer},
}