Latency-Aware Optimisation Framework for Cloudlet Placement

Promising far-reaching benefits that will pervade healthcare, industrial automation, autonomous driving, smart grid, and edutainment, the Tactile Internet is envisaged to improve our everyday life. Described as a communications infrastructure that facilitates real-time human-machine interaction through visual, audio, and tactile feedback, anytime and anywhere, its realization hinges upon achieving ultra-low latency required for real-time haptic communication. To meet stringent latency requirements, the deployment of cloudlets (distributed cloud computing and storage at the very edge of the network) has been proposed. In this talk, we will motivate the drive for cloudlets in a Tactile Internet infrastructure and briefly discuss our on-going research in cloudlet placement and network planning.