A Lightweight Service Placement Approach for Community Network Micro-Clouds

Mennan Selimi, Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Felix Freitag, Luís Veiga, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Jon Crowcroft
2018 Journal of Grid Computing  
Community networks (CNs) have gained momentum in the last few years with the increasing number of spontaneously deployed WiFi hotspots and home networks. These networks, owned and managed by volunteers, offer various services to their members and to the public. While Internet access is the most popular service, the provision of services of local interest within the network is enabled by the emerging technology of CN micro-clouds. By putting services closer to users, micro-clouds pursue not only
doi:10.1007/s10723-018-9437-3 fatcat:canjb4m3ircexcvp7dd76ks2xe