there's a bunch of projects on "edge" computing - huawei & BT also are both pursuing what they call
compute first networking (or in-network processing) - back in the day, telefonica did a bunch of work
assuming you'd have a rack at every cell tower....
you are absolutely right that the architecture for scaling the application (what in cloud terms is the
orcestration or coordination system) is crucial, and not at all a mapped out design space, so I think
there's lots of interesting research to do on what systems like kubernetes for edge cloud
would look like (that's just one piece of the problem - security architecture is also not obvious in
that world, and mobile/migrating computation for mobile users makes life even more of a challenge)
great thought!
> Dear all,
> Just a thought for today. An interesting talk last year at Coseners on
> the realities of 5G.
> Is the research community looking at local processing needs (or, rather,
> future needs) for applications that develop on the back of 5G? By 'local'
> I mean within the decision time frame required by the application and
> hosted somewhere on the network and replicated probably at or near the
> edge. The questions I have in mind are practical realisations that scale.
> There are several views on what that level of scale might evolve towards
> and what latency requirements of applications might drive the preferred
> solution and I don't wish to comment on every scenario. There are some
> open questions (I would guess) on an architecture for best scaling.
> Regards,
> John
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