
Research Article
Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing Through UPF Selection
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-24386-8_19, author={Yuanzhe Li and Ao Zhou and Xiao Ma and Shangguang Wang}, title={Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing Through UPF Selection}, proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 18th EAI International Conference, CollaborateCom 2022, Hangzhou, China, October 15-16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II}, proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM PART 2}, year={2023}, month={1}, keywords={Mobile edge computing 5G Request dispatching Container management}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-24386-8_19} }
- Yuanzhe Li
Ao Zhou
Xiao Ma
Shangguang Wang
Year: 2023
Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing Through UPF Selection
COLLABORATECOM PART 2
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24386-8_19
Abstract
The distributed deployment and the relatively limited resource of one edge node make it quite challenging to effectively manage resources at the edge. Inappropriate scheduling may result in a quality of service deterioration and brings significant cost. In this paper, we propose a per-user level management mechanism for joint scheduling of user requests and container resources at the edge and study how to minimize average cost as well as satisfy delay constraints. The cost model of the system consists of operating cost, switching cost and delay violation cost. The key idea is to deploy a deep reinforcement learning-based scheduler in the core network to conduct joint network and computation management. To evaluate the performance, we build a test bed namely MiniEdgeCore that contains a full user plane protocol stack and deploy a real-time video inference application on it. A real-world dataset is used as the workload sequence to conduct experiments. The results show that the proposed method can reduce average costs effectively.