@inproceedings{36d99d22557345fd80639199fb5731a5,
title = "FADES: Fine-grained edge offloading with unikernels",
abstract = "FADES is an edge offloading architecture that empowers us to run compact, single purpose tasks at the edge of the network to support a variety of IoT and cloud services. The design principle behind FADES is to efficiently exploit the resources of constrained edge devices through fine-grained computation offloading. FADES takes advantage of MirageOS unikernels to isolate and embed application logic in concise Xen-bootable images.We have implemented FADES and evaluated the system performance under various hardware and network conditions. Our results show that FADES can effectively strike a balance between running complex applications in the cloud and simple operations at the edge. As a solid step to enable finegrained edge offloading, our experiments also reveal the limitation of existing IoT hardware and virtualization platforms, which shed light on future research to bring unikernel into IoT domain.",
keywords = "Edge computing, IoT, Virtualization",
author = "Vittorio Cozzolino and {Yi Ding}, Aaron and J{\"o}rg Ott",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.; 1st ACM SIGCOMM Hot Topics on Container Networking and Networked Systems Workshop, HotConNet 2017 ; Conference date: 25-08-2017",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1145/3094405.3094412",
language = "English",
series = "HotConNet 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Hot Topics in Container Networking and Networked Systems, Part of SIGCOMM 2017",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "36--41",
booktitle = "HotConNet 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Hot Topics in Container Networking and Networked Systems, Part of SIGCOMM 2017",
}