CONTENTO: An open simulator for storage and content management services in mobile edge computing
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2021-03
Authors
Pérez-Torres, Rafael
Truong, Thuy
Buckley, Donagh
Sreenan, Cormac J.
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IEEE
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As the research on edge computing rises, tools are required to assess how the workloads from users impact on the resources of mobile networks and how the edge and its storage platform can further handle those workloads to improve the perceived Quality of Experience (QoE). Nevertheless, simulators for cloud and edge computing have mostly centred on the computing resources to conduct research on high performance computing, leaving storage aside. Thus, there is a lack of simulation tools focused on storage resources and how content is handled across the network. Storage is a valuable resource that can be exploited in storage services, like edge Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to reduce delivery latency and the use of backhaul links. Thus, research on this field is compelling to improve network and applications performance, and specialized tools can promote it. Here, we present a Content OrieNTed Edge computiNg simulaTOr (CONTENTO) for the design of content management strategies through a customizable processing pipeline. CONTENTO allows edge applications to use the pipeline for tasks including content popularity detection and IoT data processing, and collects data rate and traffic statistics to assess the management strategies. We demonstrate CONTENTO’s flexibility for implementing and experimenting with relevant case studies for the uplink and downlink. CONTENTO contributes by providing a common ground to define content management techniques and evaluate their performance under varying workloads and network configurations.
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Simulator , Storage services , Edge computing , Event-driven , Content management
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Pérez-Torres, R., Truong, T., Buckley, D. and Sreenan, C. J. (2021) 'CONTENTO: An open simulator for storage and content management services in mobile edge computing, HPCS 2020: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation', Virtual/Online Event, 22-27 March. forthcoming publication.