Cloud-Edge-Client Continuum: Leveraging Browsers as Deployment Nodes with Virtual Pods
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Mario Colosi, Marco Garofalo, Antonino Galletta, Maria Fazio, Antonio Celesti, Massimo VillariAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
Nowadays, thanks to the ever-increasing hardware capacity of Edge computing, the achievement of Ubiquitous Computing is no longer a utopia, even though it presents still several challenges. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the Cloud-Edge-Client Continuum, by extending the well-known Cloud-Edge Continuum paradigm with the addition of Clients as deployment nodes. Specifically, we propose both a system architecture and a piece of middleware that allows a web browser to be used seamlessly as a deployment Client node, introducing the concept of a Virtual Point of Deployment (VPod). Our solution allows to: a) leverage the computational capacity of a huge number of ready-to-use devices that do not require the installation of any dependencies; b) optimize the use of resources with clear benefits for end users, who can take advantage of their computing capacity to process sensitive data; c) reduce infrastructure costs. In addition, our proposal opens toward a multitude of scenarios, as the logical division that exists in the common client-server architecture is overcome, enabling the creation of a Cloud-Edge-Client Continuum environment.
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DOI:10.1145/3632366
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- Massimo Villari,
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