A Latency-Aware Container Scheduling in Edge Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

In an edge cloud environment where cloud computing technologies are applied to edge computing, it is necessary to make container orchestrators deal with problems caused by the heterogeneity of network connectivity. In this paper, we propose a communication latency-aware container scheduler for edge cloud environments. When an application is accessed from an end device, the access request is made to the appropriate computing node based on the communication latency. The scheduler deploys/reallocates application containers according to access to applications from end devices. An experimental result with our prototype implementation showed the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling system.