Implementation and Evaluation of Mobile-Edge Computing Cooperative Caching

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Perustieteiden korkeakoulu | Master's thesis
Date
2015
Department
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Mcode
SCI3100
Degree programme
Master's Programme in ICT Innovation
Language
en
Pages
54
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Abstract
Recent expanding rise of mobile device users for cloud services leads to resource challenges in Mobile Network Operator's (MNO) network. This poses significant additional costs to MNOs and also results in poor user experience. Studies illustrate that large amount of traffic consumption in MNO's network is originated from the similar requests of users for the same popular contents over Internet. Therefore such networks suffer from delivering the same content multiple times through their connected gateways to the Internet backhaul. On the other hand, in content delivery networks (CDN), the delay caused by network latency is one of the biggest issues which impedes the efficient delivery and desirable user experience. Cooperative caching is one of the ways to handle the extra posed traffic by requesting popular contents repeatedly in MNO's network. Furthermore Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) offers a resource rich environment and data locality to cloud applications. This helps to reduce the network latency time in CDN services. Thus in this Thesis an aggregation between Cooperative Caching and MEC concept has been considered. This Thesis demonstrates a design, implementation and evaluation for a Mobile-Edge computing Cooperative Caching system to deliver content to mobile users. A design is presented in a failure resilient and scalable practice using a light-weight synchronizing method. The system is implemented and deployed on Nokia Networks Radio Application Cloud Servers(Nokia Networks RACS) as intelligent MEC base-stations and finally the outcome of the system and the effect on bandwidth saving, CDN delay and user experience are evaluated.
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Supervisor
Ylä-Jääski , Antti
Thesis advisor
Kämäräinen, Teemu
Keywords
mobile edge computing, cooperative caching, content delivery networks, Nokia Networks RACS, MEC
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