From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms

Mengwei Xu; Zhe Fu; Xiao Ma; Li Zhang; Yanan Li; Feng Qian; Shangguang Wang; Ke Li; Jingyu Yang; Xuanzhe Liu

doi:10.1145/3487552.3487815

From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms

Mengwei Xu, Zhe Fu, Xiao Ma, Li Zhang, Yanan Li, Feng Qian, Shangguang Wang, Ke Li, Jingyu Yang, Xuanzhe Liu

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Public edge platforms have drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry. In this study, we perform a first-of-its-kind measurement study on a leading public edge platform that has been densely deployed in China. Based on this measurement, we quantitatively answer two critical yet unexplored questions. First, from end users' perspective, what is the performance of commodity edge platforms compared to cloud, in terms of the end-to-end network delay, throughput, and the application QoE. Second, from the edge service provider's perspective, how are the edge workloads different from cloud, in terms of their VM subscription, monetary cost, and resource usage. Our study quantitatively reveals the status quo of today's public edge platforms, and provides crucial insights towards developing and operating future edge services.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IMC 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	37-53
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391290
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487815
State	Published - Nov 2 2021
Event	21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Nov 2 2021 → Nov 4 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

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Conference	21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	11/2/21 → 11/4/21

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Funding Information:
Mengwei Xu was supported by National Key R&D Program of China under grant number 2020YFB1805500, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 61922017. Xuanzhe Liu was supported in part by Alibaba University Joint Research Program. We hereby give special thanks to Alibaba Group for their contribution to this paper. We also thank our shepherd, Aaron Schulman, and the anonymous IMC reviewers for their useful suggestions. Shangguang Wang is the corresponding author of this work.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

edge computing
measurement study
workloads analysis

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Xu, M., Fu, Z., Ma, X., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Qian, F., Wang, S., Li, K., Yang, J., & Liu, X. (2021). From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms. In IMC 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 37-53). (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487815

From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms. / Xu, Mengwei; Fu, Zhe; Ma, Xiao et al.
IMC 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 37-53 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC).

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Xu, M, Fu, Z, Ma, X, Zhang, L, Li, Y, Qian, F, Wang, S, Li, K, Yang, J & Liu, X 2021, From cloud to edge: A first look at public edge platforms. in IMC 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 37-53, 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 11/2/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487815

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