@INPROCEEDINGS{Sama1906:Battle,
AUTHOR="Amit Samanta and Yong Li and Flavio Esposito",
TITLE="Battle of Microservices: Towards {Latency-Optimal} Heuristic Scheduling for
Edge Computing",
BOOKTITLE="2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) (NetSoft 2019)",
ADDRESS="Paris, France",
DAYS=23,
MONTH=jun,
YEAR=2019,
KEYWORDS="Microservices; Heuristic scheduling; Edge computing",
ABSTRACT="Edge computing paradigm aims at offloading microservices from mobile
devices to the edge of network, reducing latency and increasing
computational ability. To optimize the offloading decision, existing
schemes often require a priori knowledge of the service type,
latency-requirement, or both. Such limitations, in turn, hinders the
quality-of-service (QoS) for real-time (mobile) applications. This paper
presents FLAVOUR, a novel distributed and latency-optimal microservice
scheduling mechanism for edge computing platform to achieve minimal service
latency, while providing guaranteed transmission rates to minimize
microservice completion times (MSCT). To design FLAVOUR, we first formulate
a stochastic service delay minimization problem with constraints on service
completion time and network stability. By solving this problem, we derive
an optimal latency-optimal heuristic scheduling problem, which establishes
the theoretical foundation for FLAVOUR. We have implemented a FLAVOUR
prototype and evaluated FLAVOUR through both the testbed experiments and
CloudSim simulations. Our preliminary results show that FLAVOUR holds great
promise in terms of latency and throughput under different traffic
dynamics."
}