Evaluation of Docker as Edge computing platform

摘要

High latency, network congestion and network bottleneck are some of problems in cloud computing. Moving from centralized to decentralized paradigm, Edge computing could offload the processing to the edge which indirectly reduces application response time and improves overall user experience. This paper evaluate Docker, a container based technology as a platform for Edge Computing. 4 fundamental criteria were evaluated 1) deployment and termination, 2) resource & service management, 3) fault tolerance and 4) caching. Based on our evaluation and experiment Docker provides fast deployment, small footprint and good performance which make it potentially a viable Edge Computing platform.