Moblie Edge Computing For Internet of Things
Moblie Edge Computing For Internet of Things
Internet of Things
Fassahat Ullah Qureshi
Introduction
• Cloud computing (CC) is more and more used, including private/local and mixed
cloud development.
• Novel services and applications like IoT Would be better served by edge
computing systems
Mobile Cloud Computing Architecture
Mobile Edge Computing
• Offers application developers and content providers cloud-computing capabilities
and an IT service environment at the edge of the mobile network.
• Other Terms used are Fog Computing, Cloudlets.
Advantages of MEC
• Proximity
• Ultra-low latency
• High bandwidth
• Real-time access to radio network information
• Location awareness
MEC Use Case Examples
High level comparison of MCC and Edge
computing concepts
Internet of things
• Mobile communication is no longer exclusive to smartphones and tablets.
• Almost any portable device can now be outfitted with electronics, software,
network connectivity, and sensors, allowing it to provide pervasive services, i.e.
communicate and share data with other devices.
• These new capabilities constitute one of the most innovative and disruptive
technological scenarios of today, the Internet of Things (IoT).
Traditional IOT Architecture
Mobile Edge Computing for IoTs
• IoT devices are expected to generate a significant amount of data as their use is found
everywhere .
• Deploying a number of fog (MEC) nodes in the network can locally collect, classify, and analyse
the raw IoT data streams, rather than transmitting them to the cloud.
• This can significantly alleviate the traffic in the core network and potentially speed up the IoT big
data process.
• Because the data processing is not handled by the IoT device, its power consumption can be
greatly reduced.
• Additional security measures could be provided by having the MEC encrypt the data before being
sent downstream.
Mobile Edge Computing for IoTs
• The MEC can also address the IoT device’s limited memory storage by logging the
data received from the end devices, aggregating the messages and logging them
into a local database.
Multi-Interface Base Stations in
Cellular Network
• A huge number of base stations (BSs), which have already been deployed in the
mobile network, provide high radio coverage.
• Distributed BSs have the potential to connect all IoT devices whether they are
moving or static.
• The data can be processed locally to release the burdens for Internet
bandwidth.
• Sending heavy computation to resourceful servers and receiving the results from
these servers in known as computation offloading.
• The first part may include user interface and the code that handles peripherals
(such as the mobile system’s camera).
• Let pc be the power required to send data from the mobile system over the
network
• After sending the data, the system needs to poll the network interface while
waiting for the result of the offloaded computation. During this time, the power
consumption is pi. So the total power will be
Computation Offloading to improve Energy
• Offloading saves energy when
• The data (such as photographs and videos) may also reside in servers with high-
speed networks (such as Facebook.com and YouTube.com). Instead of
transmitting the data from the mobile system to the server, the mobile system
needs to provide links to the server and the server may download the data
directly from the hosting sites. In this case, the bandwidth B can be substantially
higher, allowing offloading to improve performance and save energy
Future Work
• Research MEC with IOT in relation to computation offloading