Geofence-Based Service Discovery in the Computing Continuum

Service discovery is a vital process that enables low latency provisioning of Internet of Things applications across the computing continuum. Unfortunately, due to the high heterogeneity of the computing continuum, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify a proper service within strict time constraints. To address these issues, in the paper, we introduce a mobile edge service discovery approach named MESDD. The MESDD service discovery algorithm utilizes the notion of intermediate code to identify the best suitable instance of a service across the computing continuum. The core function of this approach is the selection of the most siutable location descriptor based on the naming scheme used to identify the users’ location. To aid this process, the MESDD approach utilizes geofences, which enable fine-grained resource discovery.