Tusa, F;
Clayman, S;
(2021)
The Impact of Encoding and Transport for Massive Real-time IoT Data on Edge Resource Consumption.
Journal of Grid Computing
, 19
, Article 32. 10.1007/s10723-021-09577-9.
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Abstract
Edge microservice applications are becoming a viable solution for the execution of real-time IoT analytics, due to their rapid response and reduced latency. With Edge Computing, unlike the central Cloud, the amount of available resource is constrained and the computation that can be undertaken is also limited. Microservices are not standalone, they are devised as a set of cooperating tasks that are fed data over the network through specific APIs. The cost of processing these feeds of data in real-time, especially for massive IoT configurations, is however generally overlooked. In this work we evaluate the cost of dealing with thousands of sensors sending data to the edge with the commonly used encoding of JSON over REST interfaces, and compare this to other mechanisms that use binary encodings as well as streaming interfaces. The choice has a big impact on the microservice implementation, as a wrong selection can lead to excessive resource consumption, because using a less efficient encoding and transport mechanism results in much higher resource requirements, even to do an identical job.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Impact of Encoding and Transport for Massive Real-time IoT Data on Edge Resource Consumption |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10723-021-09577-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-021-09577-9 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131912 |
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