Addressing the Challenges in Federating Edge Resources

Abstract

Throughout this chapter, we use the general term "Edge" to refer to a collection of technologies that aim towards decentralizing data center resources for bringing computational resources closer to the end user. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Cloudlets, Fog computing, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) can all be considered as instances of Edge computing [9]. Therefore, generally speaking, the principles discussed in this chapter can be broadly applied to the aforementioned technologies.The remainder of this chapter is organized in line with the above discussion and is as follows. Section 2.2 considers the networking challenge. Section 2.3 considers the management challenge. Section 2.4 presents the resource and modeling challenges. Section 2.5 concludes this chapter.

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