Mahadev Satyanarayanan, a computer science professor at
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) who wrote the article “The Case for VM-based
Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” says in an interview
by the Mobile Edge Computing Congress that 5G will be useless without edge
computing. This is because edge computing will be needed to transform the down to 1ms
first-hop latency that 5G access enables to a 1ms response time end-to-end.
Satyanarayanan continues that in order to encourage the
development of edge computing applications, the telecom industry needs to reach
out to developer communities and engage them in proof of concepts.
There is an immediate need for hands on experimentation of edge computing
through piloting schemes.
According to Satyanarayanan, one potential business model
for edge computing could be exemplified by an AR application – the user might pay for an
upgraded version of the app with premium services enabled by edge computing (e.g.,
facial recognition for an image obtained by a smartphone using a high end GPU
on a cloudlet located close by). The AR application provider then pays the
mobile network operator accordingly for the use of edge computing.
CMU, Intel, Huawei, and Vodafone have
together formed the Open Edge Computing
initiative.
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