Cost-Aware Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing Systems

One of the well-known challenges in Edge Computing is strategic placement of cloudlets. The fundamental goals of this challenge are to minimize the deployment cost and to guarantee minimum latency for the users of edge services. We address this challenge by designing a cost-aware cloudlet placement approach that fully maps user applications to appropriate cloudlets while ensuring their latency requirements. We investigate the effectiveness of our proposed approach by performing extensive experiments based on New York City OpenData. The results show that our approach obtains close to optimal cost solutions with significantly reduced execution time.