Design and Research of Edge Layer Service Platform Based on Flexible Service Architecture

Abstract

With the advent of the future generation networks(5G), high-bandwidth, high-density, and low-latency will become the mainstream features of network services. If we continue to adopt single cloud computing mode, speed, delay, or stability cannot be guaranteed at all. The edge calculation proposed in recent years can properly solves this problem. Edge computing is a network architecture that provides users with the services and cloud computing functions on the wireless side. At the same time, the emergence of virtualization technology enables the traditional server resources to be more fully utilized. Platform and application virtualization now is rapidly moving to the edge of the cloud. An edge computing platform is built by integrating Docker technology and Kubernetes technology in this paper. In addition, network service experiments on the platform are performed. Through the comparison of experiment results on the edge layer and the cloud layer, conclusions are obtained that the edge computing layer can satisfy the low-latency and stable demand of service.