%0 Journal Article
%A Huedo Cuesta, Eduardo
%A Moreno Vozmediano, Rafael Aurelio
%A Santiago Montero, Rubén Manuel
%A Martín Llorente, Ignacio
%T Opportunistic Deployment of Distributed Edge Clouds for Latency-critical Applications
%D 2021
%@ 1570-7873
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7168
%X The growing number of latency-critical applications are posing novel challenges for network operators, cloud/hosting companies, and application providers. Edge Computing is the strongest candidate for providing low-latency responses, but it is not yet clear what edge infrastructures will be like. This paper introduces a new platform for enabling an edge infrastructure according to a disaggregated distributed cloud architecture and an opportunistic model based on bare-metal providers. Results from a multi-server online gaming application deployed in a real geo-distributed edge infrastructure show the feasibility, performance and cost efficiency of the solution.
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