Poster: Opportunistic Edge Computing with EVPNs

Poster: Opportunistic Edge Computing with EVPNs

연구 분야: Networking

학회: 2023 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)

Opportunistic Edge Computing forms a pool of resources for delivery of edge computing services leveraging existing nearby infrastructure. The pooled resources are generally owned by different entities and unreliable. Workload hosted on such resources must be movable in case of infrastructure down-times. Additionally, distributed applications are requiring a one-to-many connectivity model rather than client-to-server connectivity. Therefore, the underlay transport network needs to cater for these requirements. This article proposes a concept that meets these based on standard EVPN/VXLAN tunnels. In order to avoid additional latency resulting from NAT and tromboning, EVPNs will need to be extended to the client. Besides introducing the networking concept also a critical assessment of resulting constraints for clients will be provided.