Network Slicing and Workload Placement in Megacities
Polyzois Soumplis, Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Dimitrios Lagos, Aristotelis Kretsis, Vasilis Sourlas, Emmanouel Varvarigos · 2020
The number and size of megacities and their respective networking and computing infrastructures constantly increases, while a large part of the network traffic originates and terminates locally. In such a dense and heterogeneous environment, network slices are formed, utilizing various optical networking infrastructures that carry data from end users to distributed, intra-city edge computing units, in which applications' workload is appropriately offloaded. In our work, we examine mechanisms for the joint resource allocation and the applications' workload placement in the access and metro network segments.