LoCoCa: Location-Context-Capacity Aware Cost Economizing in Edge-Cloud Systems

Nowadays, real-time interactive content services have been the most dazzling sector of next-generation Internet. The high-quality perceptions of virtual scenes have given rise to the strict requirements of high bandwidth and low latency, where the edge-cloud system promises several benefits. However, there still remain prominent challenges, when taking the economical efficiency into consideration, including location-heterogeneity, context-directability, and capacity-exploitation. In this paper, we propose a location-context-capacity aware bandwidth cost economizing strategy in the edge-cloud system, i.e., LoCoCa. LoCoCa adopts server pools partition mechanism, then achieving the optimal burstable billing in each pool. Here, a location-aware graph construction and partition algorithm is designed to solve the server pools partition problem. Then an improved burstable billing optimization mechanism, with a context index and an adaptive bandwidth capacity, is also proposed to economize bandwidth costs. Finally, the realistic edge-cloud company's trace-based experimental results verify LoCoCa reduces bandwidth costs by 81.83%, compared with the baselines.