Title: An overview of compute first networking

Authors: Liang Tian; Mingzhe Yang; Shangguang Wang

Addresses: Institute of Computer and Information Engineering, Xinxiang University, Henan, China ' Institute of Network Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China ' Institute of Network Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China; Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China

Abstract: Edge computing has become an important innovative business model in the 5G era, especially its low latency feature, which is considered to be not available in traditional solutions. Therefore, edge computing can provide more service capabilities and has a wider range of application scenarios. However, the collaboration of computing power between edge computing and cloud computing in the central position has become a new technical problem. That is, it is necessary to achieve cloud-to-network collaboration, cloud-to-edge collaboration, or even edge-to-edge collaboration among edge computing, cloud computing, and network to achieve the optimisation of resource utilisation. On the basis of studying the compute distribution and scheduling requirements of edge computing, this paper introduces a compute network scheme based on the deep fusion of cloud, edge and network, called compute first networking (CFN). Firstly, we introduce the basic concept and related work of CFN. Then, we mainly discuss the framework and key technology of CFN. After that, we present some applications with respect to CFN. Finally, we discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area of compute first networking.

Keywords: compute first networking; CFN; mobile edge computing; cloud computing; 5G.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2021.114566

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2021 Vol.17 No.2, pp.81 - 97

Received: 02 Jun 2020
Accepted: 18 Jun 2020

Published online: 27 Apr 2021 *

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