Characterizing and orchestrating NFV-ready servers for efficient edge data processing
Lu Zhang, Chao Li, Pengyu Wang, Yunxin Liu, Yang Hu, Quan Chen, Minyi Guo · 2019
The fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial intelligence (AI) applications mandate high-performance edge data analytics. This requirement cannot be fully fulfilled by prior works that focus on either small architectures (e.g., accelerators) or large infrastructure (e.g., cloud data centers). Sitting in between the edge and cloud, there have been many server-level designs for augmenting edge data processing. However, they often require specialized hardware resources and lack scalability as well as agility.