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Towards mobility-aware dynamic service migration in mobile edge computing

  • Fangzheng Liu
  • , B. Lv
  • , Jiwei Huang*
  • , Sikandar Ali
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time by pushing cloud functionalities to the network edge. However, it is necessary to consider whether to conduct service migration to ensure the quality of service as users migrate to new locations. It is challenging to make migration decisions optimally due to the mobility of the users. To address this issue, we propose a mobility-aware dynamic service migration scheme for mobile edge computing. In order to predict a mobile user’s movement behavior in terms of boundary crossing probability, we use a new approach for modeling user mobility and formulate the service migration problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). This policy can effectively weigh the relationship between delay and migration costs. Our methods capture general cost models and provide a mathematical framework to design optimal service migration policies. Experimental evaluations based on real-world mobility traces of Beijing taxis show superior performance of the proposed solution.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Lnicst
PublisherSpringer Cham
Pages115-131
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783030675370
ISBN (Print)9783030675363
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
PublisherSpringer Nature
Volume349
ISSN (Print)1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)1867-822X
NameEAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
PublisherSpringer Nature

Keywords

  • mobile edge computing
  • service migration
  • Markov decision process (MDP)
  • user mobility

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