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8 - Edge Computing Flashcards

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Offloading

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Offload work from mobile to server but you must chooose which to save energy and latency

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Energy: Offload when…

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Large amounts of computation to low amount of comms

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Latency: Offload when…

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network allows

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4
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Code Profiler (mobile)

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Determine offloadable modules

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System Profiler (mobile)

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Battery, network and CPU status etc

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Decision engine (mobile)

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Is there a predicted benefit?

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Cloudlet

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Small cluster of powerful servers with connectivity to remote clouds

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8
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IoT

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Internet of Things - network of connected devices that sense, gatehr data and communicate about environmenty

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IoT examples

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Sensors
Smart Home Gadgets
Wearables

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Examples of high volume data

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Offshore oil rigs 500GB weekley
Commercial jets 10TB for every 30mins of flight
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Edge Computing

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Move computation to data location

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12
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Device Layer

IoT Devices with what attributes?

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IoT Devices which are :
resource -constrained
predominantly wireless
geographically distributed

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13
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Edge Layer

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Formed of edge nodes

Computer and storage servers + network gateways

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Where are edge layer devices? (Physically)

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Geographically distributed at network edge. Eg shopping centres, factories, stations etc

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What is Edge computing (Server)

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Moving the computation from large dedicated datacenters to smaller nodes closer to the users

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16
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Benefits of edge computing (Server)

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Less bandwidth requirements
Lower latency
Enables better data compliance (Data can be stored in the same country it is made GDPR)

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Downside of Edge computing (Server)

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More expensive per server
Less compute & storage available

18
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Examples of edge computing (Server)

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Netflix cache servers
Video distribution networks
Cloud Gaming

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