MigCEP: operator migration for mobility driven distributed complex event processing

  • Authors:
  • Beate Ottenwälder;Boris Koldehofe;Kurt Rothermel;Umakishore Ramachandran

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Distributed event-based systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A recent trend in communication networks --- sometimes referred to as fog computing --- offers to execute computational tasks close to the access points of the networks. This enables real-time applications, like mobile Complex Event Processing (CEP), to significantly reduce end-to-end latencies and bandwidth usage. Most work studying the placement of operators in such an environment completely disregards the migration costs. However, the mobility of users requires frequent migration of operators, together with possibly large state information, to meet latency restrictions and save bandwidth in the infrastructure. This paper presents a placement and migration method for providers of infrastructures that incorporate cloud and fog resources. It ensures application-defined end-to-end latency restrictions and reduces the network utilization by planning the migration ahead of time. Furthermore, we present how the application knowledge of the CEP system can be used to improve current live migration techniques for Virtual Machines to reduce the required bandwidth during the migration. Our evaluations show that we safe up to 49% of the network utilization with perfect knowledge about a users mobility pattern and up to 27% of the network utilization when considering the uncertainty of those patterns.