Cresco: A distributed agent-based edge computing framework

The Cresco distributed agent-based framework is designed to address the challenges of edge computing. We present an actor-model implementation for the management of large numbers of geographically distributed services, comprised from heterogeneous resources and communication protocols, in support of low-latency realtime streaming applications. We present the purpose of our work, the basic methodology, the initial results already obtained, the relationship to the existing software, and the potential of the presently implemented framework to a number of potential further projects that could be developed on the basis of the existing implementation.