Addressing the Challenges in Federating Edge Resources

TL;DR

This chapter explores the technical, social, and legal challenges of creating a global federated Edge computing infrastructure across multiple regions, focusing on networking, management, and resource modeling issues.

Contribution

It identifies key challenges in networking, management, and resource modeling for federating Edge deployments across regions, highlighting areas needing further research.

Findings

Networking challenges in federated Edge deployments

Management complexities in decentralized Edge systems

Resource and modeling issues for scalable federated Edge

Abstract

This book chapter considers how Edge deployments can be brought to bear in a global context by federating them across multiple geographic regions to create a global Edge-based fabric that decentralizes data center computation. This is currently impractical, not only because of technical challenges, but is also shrouded by social, legal and geopolitical issues. In this chapter, we discuss two key challenges - networking and management in federating Edge deployments. Additionally, we consider resource and modeling challenges that will need to be addressed for a federated Edge.