User preference–based QoS-aware service function placement in IoT-Edge cloud

Briytone Mutichiro and Younghan Kim

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2021, vol. 17, issue 5, 15501477211019912

Abstract: In the Internet of Things-Edge cloud, service provision presents a challenge to operators to satisfy user service-level agreements while meeting service-specific quality-of-service requirements. This is because of inherent limitations in the Internet of Things-Edge in terms of resource infrastructure as well as the complexity of user requirements in terms of resource management in a heterogeneous environment like edge. An efficient solution to this problem is service orchestration and placement of service functions to meet user-specific requirements. This work aims to satisfy user quality of service through optimizing the user response time and cost by factoring in the workload variation on the edge infrastructure. We formulate the service function placement at the edge problem. We employ user service request patterns in terms of user preference and service selection probability to model service placement. Our framework proposal relies on mixed-integer linear programming and heuristic solutions. The main objective is to realize a reduced user response time at minimal overall cost while satisfying the user service requirements. For this, several parameters, and factors such as capacity, latency, workload, and cost constraints, are considered. The proposed solutions are evaluated based on different metrics and the obtained results show the gap between the heuristic user preference placement algorithm and the optimal solution to be minimal.

Keywords: IoT-Edge; user preference; QoS optimization; similarity index; service function placement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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