[oe-sync] Latency + need for edge computing

[Padmanabhan Pillai]

In the last sync meeting, the question of latency and showing the need 
for edge computing (as opposed to cloud computing) came up. The CMU team 
has done extensive work already on demonstrating the need for edge 
computing, and have a published paper on this topic (see attached).  The 
work looks at a few interactive, compute-intensive applications, and 
compares mobile-only execution, offload to several different Amazon 
datacenters, and offload to a local edge server.  In short, the paper 
shows that generally, edge computing comes out ahead in these 
interactive application scenarios.  I hope you can use this work as 
supporting evidence when encountering naysayers questioning the need for 
edge computing.

The paper was presented at the International Conference on Cloud 
Engineering (IC2E), 2013.

Regards,

- Babu

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