A survey on service migration in mobile edge computing

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Shangguang
dc.contributor.authorXu, Jinliang
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Yujiong
dc.contributor.authorZHANG, Ning
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298en_US
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-1298
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-02T22:07:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-02T22:07:59Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-18
dc.description.abstractMobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach to significantly reduce network operational cost and improve quality of service (QoS) of mobile users by pushing computation resources to the network edges, and enables a scalable Internet of Things (IoT) architecture for time-sensitive applications (e-healthcare, real-time monitoring, and so on.). However, the mobility of mobile users and the limited coverage of edge servers can result in significant network performance degradation, dramatic drop in QoS, and even interruption of ongoing edge services; therefore, it is difficult to ensure service continuity. Service migration has great potential to address the issues, which decides when or where these services are migrated following user mobility and the changes of demand. In this paper, two conceptions similar to service migration, i.e., live migration for data centers and handover in cellular networks, are first discussed. Next, the cutting-edge research efforts on service migration in MEC are reviewed, and a devisal of taxonomy based on various research directions for efficient service migration is presented. Subsequently, a summary of three technologies for hosting services on edge servers, i.e., virtual machine, container, and agent, is provided. At last, open research challenges in service migration are identified and discussed.en_US
dc.description.abstractMobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach to significantly reduce network operational cost and improve quality of service (QoS) of mobile users by pushing computation resources to the network edges, and enables a scalable Internet of Things (IoT) architecture for time-sensitive applications (e-healthcare, real-time monitoring, and so on.). However, the mobility of mobile users and the limited coverage of edge servers can result in significant network performance degradation, dramatic drop in QoS, and even interruption of ongoing edge services; therefore, it is difficult to ensure service continuity. Service migration has great potential to address the issues, which decides when or where these services are migrated following user mobility and the changes of demand. In this paper, two conceptions similar to service migration, i.e., live migration for data centers and handover in cellular networks, are first discussed. Next, the cutting-edge research efforts on service migration in MEC are reviewed, and a devisal of taxonomy based on various research directions for efficient service migration is presented. Subsequently, a summary of three technologies for hosting services on edge servers, i.e., virtual machine, container, and agent, is provided. At last, open research challenges in service migration are identified and discussed.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by NSFC under Grant 61472047en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by NSFC under Grant 61472047
dc.identifier.citationWang, S., Xu, J., Zhang, N. and Liu, Y., 2018. A survey on service migration in mobile edge computing. IEEE Access, 6, pp.23511-23528.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWang, S., Xu, J., Zhang, N. and Liu, Y., 2018. A survey on service migration in mobile edge computing. IEEE Access, 6, pp.23511-23528.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2828102
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/90220
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.publisherIEEE
dc.subjectserversen_US
dc.subjectvirtual machiningen_US
dc.subjectedge computingen_US
dc.subjectcloud computingen_US
dc.subjectquality of serviceen_US
dc.subjectdata centersen_US
dc.subjecthandoveren_US
dc.subjectmobile edge computingen_US
dc.subjectservice migrationen_US
dc.subjectlive migrationen_US
dc.subjectmigration path selectionen_US
dc.subjectcellular handoveren_US
dc.subjectservers
dc.subjectvirtual machining
dc.subjectedge computing
dc.subjectcloud computing
dc.subjectquality of service
dc.subjectdata centers
dc.subjecthandover
dc.subjectmobile edge computing
dc.subjectservice migration
dc.subjectlive migration
dc.subjectmigration path selection
dc.subjectcellular handover
dc.titleA survey on service migration in mobile edge computingen_US
dc.titleA survey on service migration in mobile edge computing
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typeArticle

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