ENTS: An Edge-native Task Scheduling System for Collaborative Edge Computing
Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Yang, Liang Zhang, Yuvraj Sahni, Shan, Jiang

TL;DR
ENTS is a novel edge-native task scheduling system that extends Kubernetes to optimize resource management and performance for collaborative edge computing applications, significantly improving throughput.
Contribution
The paper introduces ENTS, the first edge-native task scheduling system that considers computation, networking, and data locality for edge computing, extending Kubernetes.
Findings
ENTS achieves 43-220% higher throughput than existing methods.
The system effectively manages distributed edge resources for better application performance.
Novel online algorithms optimize task and flow scheduling in edge environments.
Abstract
Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm enabling sharing of the coupled data, computation, and networking resources among heterogeneous geo-distributed edge nodes. Recently, there has been a trend to orchestrate and schedule containerized application workloads in CEC, while Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard broadly adopted by the industry and academia. However, Kubernetes is not preferable for CEC because its design is not dedicated to edge computing and neglects the unique features of edge nativeness. More specifically, Kubernetes primarily ensures resource provision of workloads while neglecting the performance requirements of edge-native applications, such as throughput and latency. Furthermore, Kubernetes neglects the inner dependencies of edge-native applications and fails to consider data locality and networking resources, leading to inferior…
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