Enhancing Edge Computing with Database Replication.
Y. Lin, B. Kemme, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris
Abstract:
As the use of the Internet continues to grow explosively, edge computing has emerged as an
important technique for delivering Web content over the Internet. Edge computing moves data
and computation closer to end-users for fast local access and better load distribution. Current
approaches use caching, which does not work wel l with highly dynamic data. In this paper, we
propose a different approach to enhance edge computing. Our approach lies in a wide area data
replication protocol that enables the delivery of dynamic content with full consistency guarantees
and with all the benfits of edge computing, such as low latency and high scalability. What is more,
the proposed solution is fully transparent to the applications that are brought to the edge. Our
extensive evaluations in a real wide area network using TPC-W show promising results.
IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2007.