Johnson’s Sequencing for Load Balancing in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Abstract

Multi-access/mobile edge computing (MEC) is a structural design for enabling cloud computing platform at the edge of mobile network, so as to reduce network congestion, improves fast response, and optimization of mobile resources to compute complex applications. MEC provides a distributed computing environment for its applications. In MEC, all the computational reserves will be brought to the base location of the mobile networks. It has the ability to store and process the contents at physical proximity to the mobile subscribers to assist delay sensitivity and contextaware applications. Generally, the packet forwarding and filtering will be operated by the traditional edge network. At present, applications’ online computations and storage are done at remote servers, and those servers are placed far away from the users. New technologies are emerged to shift all the available resources to a edge from a cloud. Radio access network (RAN) could able to do the computational off-loading to the edge of the mobile network. So, it is mandatory to have a load balancer at the edge to distribute all the job to all the available processors without any congestion or delay. A routing specifies how to route the traffic between each origin-destination pair across a network. The traffic sharing is applied in a routing and allocating process to enhance the survivability of a network. The experimental results show the proposed algorithm works better than the existing dynamic load balancing algorithms.