Dynamic service migration in ultra-dense multi-access edge computing network for high-mobility scenarios

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Xinheng Wang¹  Haowei Lin²  Xiaolong Xu²  Juan Zhao³ 

[1] Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univesity, Suzhou, China;Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Big Data Security & Intelligent Processing, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, NanJing, China;School of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, NanJing, China;

关键词: Dynamic service migration;    Ultra-dense network;    Multi-access edge computing;    High-mobility scenarios;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13638-020-01805-2

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The multi-access edge computing (MEC) has higher computing power and lower latency than user equipment and remote cloud computing, enabling the continuing emergence of new types of services and mobile application. However, the movement of users could induce service migration or interruption in the MEC network. Especially for highly mobile users, they accelerate the frequency of services’ migration and handover, impacting on the stability of the total MEC network. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical multi-access edge computing architecture, setting up the infrastructure for dynamic service migration in the ultra-dense MEC networks. Moreover, we propose a new mechanism for users with high mobility in the ultra-dense MEC network, efficiently arranging service migrations for users with high-mobility and ordinary users together. Then, we propose an algorithm for evaluating migrated services to contribute to choose the suitable MEC servers for migrated services. The results show that the proposed mechanism can efficiently arrange service migrations and more quickly restore the services even in the blockage. On the other hand, the proposed algorithm is able to make a supplement to the existing algorithms for selecting MEC servers because it can better reflect the capability of migrated services.

【 授权许可】

CC BY