A Measurement Study on Evaluating Container Network Performance for Edge Computing

Abstract

With the development of cloud technology, people are focusing on lightweight container technology. Container networking is a core technology in providing high-level cloud services, and there are various implementation models such as Container Network Model (CNM) and Container Network Interface (CNI). Among them, CNI is a de-facto standard adopted by various container platforms. There are many plugins that implement the CNI networking model, and the implementation method differs, showing a great difference in a view of performance. MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing) is a technology that provides services by locating the server closest to the user who wants to use mobile communication services. In this paper, the performance was measured by applying various CNI network plugins to the CoV architecture. Through this measurement, we analyzed the factors of network performance degradation. The result of the analysis is expected to be used as a good reference in constructing the CoV architecture for low latency in the future.