Follow-Me Cloud: When Cloud Services Follow Mobile Users

doi:10.1109/TCC.2016.2525987

Follow-Me Cloud: When Cloud Services Follow Mobile Users

2019-04-01

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Pantelis A. Frangoudis

DOI：10.1109/TCC.2016.2525987

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The trend towards the cloudification of the 3GPP LTE mobile network architecture and the emergence of federated cloud infrastructures call for alternative service delivery strategies for improved user experience and efficient resource utilization. We propose Follow-Me Cloud (FMC), a design tailored to this environment, but with a broader applicability, which allows mobile users to always be connected via the optimal data anchor and mobility gateways, while cloud-based services follow them and are delivered via the optimal service point inside the cloud infrastructure. Follow-Me Cloud applies a Markov-decision-process-based algorithm for cost-effective performance-optimized service migration decisions, while two alternative schemes to ensure service continuity and disruption-free operation are proposed, based on either software defined networking technologies or the locator/identifier separation protocol. Numerical results from our analytic model for follow-me cloud, as well as testbed experiments with the two alternative follow-me cloud implementations we have developed, demonstrate quantitatively and qualitatively the advantages it can bring about.

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Cloud computing

cellular mobile networks

3GPP LTE

Markov decision process

software-defined networking

network function virtualization

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