infrastructure setup

We need to setup an experimental evaluation testbed. We have 4 Intel Xeon servers (256GB memory, with Optane SSDs) which are connected with 100 Gbps InfiniBand links.

The idea is

• Deploy container service on them (Kubernetes, or KubeEdge)
• Pack 100s of containers on them and connect them
• Configure the containers (CPU, memory, storage) based on the edge node configuration
  • slow, fast CPUs, limited memory and storage capacities
• Some containers will be mobile clients with a GPS-based connectivity to edge node containers
• Do traffic shaping between the containers using any underlying link technology characteristics: 100 Gbps, 10 Gbps, Wifi, Bluetooth, 4/5G network links
  • Key properties: latency, bandwidth, burstiness, packet losses, etc. (keeping it at the packet level, no low-level physical properties emulation)
• Automate the whole deployment

We need to get started on building this.

Papers

• https://ucy-linc-lab.github.io/fogify/ (SEC 2020)
  • Fogify: A Fog Computing Emulation Framework, pp. 42-54, SEC 2020
• Experiences with Modeling Network Topologies at Multiple Levels of Abstraction, NSDI 2020 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-mogul.pdf