Gossip-based service monitoring platform for wireless edge cloud computing

Nuno Apolonia, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Vladimir Vlassov
2017 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)  
Edge cloud computing proposes to support shared services, by using the infrastructure at the network's edge. An important problem is the monitoring and management of services across the edge environment. Therefore, dissemination and gathering of data is not straightforward, differing from the classic cloud infrastructure. In this paper, we consider the environment of community networks for edge cloud computing, in which the monitoring of cloud services is required. We propose a monitoring
more » ... rm to collect near real-time data about the services offered in the community network using a gossip-enabled network. We analyze and apply this gossip-enabled network to perform service discovery and information sharing, enabling data dissemination among the community. We implemented our solution as a prototype and used it for collecting service monitoring data from the real operational community network cloud, as a feasible deployment of our solution. By means of emulation and simulation we analyze in different scenarios, the behavior of the gossip overlay solution, and obtain average results regarding information propagation and consistency needs, i.e. in high latency situations, data convergence occurs within minutes.
doi:10.1109/icnsc.2017.8000191 dblp:conf/icnsc/ApoloniaFNGV17 fatcat:3vthrxowkfa5bhuex2dzceez2y