EDGE COMPUTING

AUTHORS:

ALI RAZA [email protected]

HAMZA BUTT [email protected]

NOORULAIN [email protected]

Abstract Energy

Edge technology is another processing worldview in which Data centers need a lot of electricity. According to
significant register and capacity assets are set at the edge of Sverdlik's research [2, total data center energy demand in
the Internet, in nearness to cell phones, sensors, end clients, the United States will rise by 4% by 2020, hitting 73 billion
and Internet of Things gadgets. This actual closeness kilowatt-hours. Energy demand will become a bottleneck as
improves inactivity, transmission capacity, trust, and the volume of processing and delivery increases, limiting
survivability. the growth of cloud computing centers.
The amount of edge devices and data produced from the
Privacy
edge has been increasingly rising in recent years, due to the
emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wide The data in the interconnection of thousands of households
availability of wireless networks. By 2025, the is intimately connected to the lives of the consumers. For
International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that data will example Indoor cameras that relay video data from the
exceed 180 zettabytes (ZB), with 70% of data produced by house to the cloud raise the chance of users' personal
Internet being processed at the network's edge. information being leaked. Data security and privacy
International Data Corporation also estimates that by 2025, considerations have become more relevant for cloud
more than 150 billion devices will be connected globally. computing firms since the implementation of the EU
The centralized processing mode based on cloud computing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [18].
is insufficient to manage the data provided by the edge in
this situation. The unified processing model moves all data
through the network to the cloud data center, and then uses
Definition
its supercomputing capacity to solve computing and storage
issues, allowing cloud providers to achieve benefits. Edge computing is a modern concept in which an edge
server's capabilities are located at the Internet's edge, next
Availability
to mobile devices, cameras, end users, and the evolving
The use of these services has become an important part of Internet of Things.
everyday life as more and more Internet services are
Words like "cloudlets," "mini data centers," and "fog" have
deployed on the cloud. Smartphone consumers who have
been used to describe these types of lightweight, edge-
become familiar to voice-based applications, such as Siri,
located computing hardware.
would be disappointed if the app is unavailable for an
extended period of time. As a result, keeping the 24/7 Edge computing was described as follows by Shi et al. 
guarantee is a major obstacle for cloud service providers. Edge computing refers to the technologies that allow
computation to take place at the network's edge, on
BANDWIDTH
downstream data in the case of cloud services and upstream
The real-time transmission of massive volumes of data data in the case of IoT services.
provided by edge devices to the cloud would put a lot of
Any computing and network capabilities along the route
strain on network bandwidth.
between data sources and cloud data centers are referred to
Latency as "edge," and edge is a continuous concept.

Applications transfer data to the data center and wait for an Functions
answer in the conventional cloud computing model, which
There are two processing streams of edge computing: one
improves device latency.
from computers to the cloud (upstream) and the other from
the cloud to devices (downstream). End machines in the
edge computing model are not only data users, but also data
manufacturers. Stuff at the edge can not only request situated in a wireless access network and close to
resources and content from the cloud, but they can also use smartphone devices. MEC stresses the development of edge
the cloud to run computations. Computing offloading, data servers between the cloud server and edge computers to
collection, routing, and rendering will all be done at the perform computation, which is analogous to the
edge, as well as distributing requests and delivering configuration and hierarchy of an edge computing server,
resources from the cloud to the customer. For certain tasks so MEC is considered an integral aspect of edge
along the data path, the edge itself must be well-designed to computing. Fog computing was first launched by Cisco in
fulfill the requirements, such as reliability, stability, and 2012, and it is described as a strongly virtualized
privacy protection, efficiently. computing framework for migrating cloud computing
center tasks to network edge devices [8]. By decrease the
Evolution quantity of communications between cloud hosting centers
Edge computing went through a growth phase of and smartphone users, it relieves the bandwidth demand
dormancy, presentation, classification, and generalization and energy usage burden on main links. Fog computing and
during the technology planning time. The origins of edge edge computing are somewhat similar, but fog computing
computing can be traced back to Akamai's content focuses mainly on grid connectivity optimization, while
distribution network (CDN) proposal in 1998. CDN is an edge computing considers computing requirements and
Internet-based caching network that relies on caching network demand of both end devices and infrastructure, as
servers located throughout the world and directs users' well as coordination between end devices, edges, and
access to the closest caching server through load balancing, clouds. The Chinese Academy of Sciences initiated the
content delivery, scheduling, and other central platform Next Generation Information and Communication
functional modules. As a result, a CDN will minimize Technology (NICT) program, a ten-year strategic focus
network latency while still increasing the speed and research initiative, in 2012. Its primary goal is to conduct
precision of user access responses. The CDN focuses on research for the "Cloud-Sea Computing System Project".
data backup and caching, while the central concept of edge Its aim is to enhance cloud computing through
computing is feature caching. Ravi et al. were the first to collaboration and convergence of the "cloud computing"
suggest the idea of feature cache, which they used to and "sea computing" systems. The word "sea" refers to a
conserve latency and bandwidth in personalized mailbox client side that comprises both human-facing and physical-
management services. Satyanarayanan et al proposed the world-facing devices and subsystems. Edge computing
Cloudlet model, which is a trusted and resource-rich host focuses on the data route between "water" and "cloud,"
installed on the network's edge, linked to the Internet, and while cloud-sea computing focuses on the two ends "sea"
accessible via mobile devices to provide services. Edge and "cloud" .In 2013, Ryan LaMothe of the Pacific
computing at this stage concentrated on the downstream, or Northwest National Laboratory suggested the word "edge
transferring functions from cloud servers to edge servers, in computing," which was the first time modern "edge
order to minimize latency and delay. Edge computing is computing" was coined. Edge computing now encompasses
based on the premise that computing can take place close to both the upstream and downstream of cloud services, as
the data source, with the "edge" relating to all computing well as the upstream of IoT.
and network capabilities found along the path between data Edge computing has seen steady rise since 2015, drawing a
sources and the cloud. Edge computing is based on the lot of interest from academia and business. The National
premise that computing can take place close to the data Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States designated
source, with the "edge" relating to all computing and edge computing as one of the highlighted fields of
network capabilities found along the path between data computer system research in May 2016. NSF and Intel
sources and the cloud. Sensory data is translated from raw established a collaboration in August 2016 to collaborate
signals to contextually meaningful information in the on information center networks in wireless edge networks
location of the data source in this contex. Researchers (ICN-WEN). The NSF Workshop on Big Challenges in
started looking at ways to improve data processing capacity Edge Computing was held in October 2016. The workshop
close the data producer to overcome the problems of discussed three topics: the roadmap for edge computing in
computing offload and data delivery. Mobile edge the next five to ten years, the grand obstacles to realizing
computing (MEC), fog computing, and cloud-sea the vision, and the best mechanisms for academia, business,
computing are three representative computing models. and government to collaborate together to overcome these
Within the wireless access network near smartphone challenges. This means that the government is paying close
devices, MEC is a network structure that delivers attention to the advancement of edge computing. In the
information services and cloud computing capability. MEC paper “Edge computing: Vision and Challenges,” Shi et al.
can achieve reduced latency and higher bandwidth to boost [15] presented a systematic description of edge computing.
the level of service and customer interface when it is
Edge computing is characterized as specifications. Linux EdgeX
enabling technologies that enable Foundry, a vendor-neutral open-
computation to be done at the source project hosted by The Linux
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