A Lightweight Container Middleware for Edge Cloud Architectures

Because of the multi-user and multi-function characteristics of the Teaching Management System of universities, the application system is usually designed to be distributed architecture. This paper analyzes its complex functional demands through building a use case model, finds out the key factors from the aspect of the use case model, and finally meets the distributed needs with the application of lightweight container architecture. The analysis and design of the distributed teaching management system can reduce the risk of failure, and the functional demands of the application system can be realized gradually with the coherence of the architecture.

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Software-Defined Edge Cloud Framework for Resilient Multitenant Applications

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2019/3947286 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Kaikai Liu ◽

Nagthej Manangi Ravindrarao ◽

Abhishek Gurudutt ◽

Tejeshwar Kamaal ◽

Chinmayi Divakara ◽

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Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Single Point ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Wide Area Networks ◽

Software Framework ◽

Service Migration ◽

Cloud Framework ◽

Data Source ◽

Point Control ◽

Lightweight Container

Edge application’s distributed nature presents significant challenges for developers in orchestrating and managing the multitenant applications. In this paper, we propose a practical edge cloud software framework for deploying multitenant distributed smart applications. Here we exploit commodity, a low cost embedded board to form distributed edge clusters. The cluster of geo-distributed and wireless edge nodes not only power multitenant IoT applications that are closer to the data source and the user, but also enable developers to remotely deploy and orchestrate application containers over the cloud. Specifically, we propose building a software platform to manage the distributed edge nodes along with support services to deploy and launch isolated and multitenant user applications through a lightweight container. In particular, we propose an architectural solution to improve the resilience of edge cloud services through peer collaborated service migration when the failures happen or when resources are overburdened. We focus on giving the developers a single point control of the infrastructure over the intermittent and lossy wide area networks (WANs) and enabling the remote deployment of multitenant applications.

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Lightweight container-based OpenEPC deployment and its evaluation

2016 IEEE NetSoft Conference and Workshops (NetSoft) ◽

10.1109/netsoft.2016.7502481 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jorge Fontenla-Gonzalez ◽

Carlos Perez-Garrido ◽

Felipe Gil-Castineira ◽

Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano ◽

Carlos Giraldo-Rodriguez

Keyword(s):

Lightweight Container

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An Improved Container for Shipping Live Insects

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent93238-3 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 93 (3) ◽

pp. 238-240

Author(s):

C. F. Nicholls ◽

G. E. Maybee

Keyword(s):

Reliable Method ◽

Woolly Aphid ◽

Adelges Piceae ◽

Lightweight Container ◽

Heavy Mortality

Live insects have been shipped from the Belleville laboratory for many years by rail in wooden chests insulated with cork, lined with metal and cooled with natural ice. These chests were cumbersome and had to be re-iced en route or heavy mortality resulted. In 1959, a more reliable method was developed for shipping adult Aphidoletes thompsoni Moehn (Diptera: Cecidomyjidae), a predator of the balsam woolly aphid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.) (Homoptera: Aphididae) by air express. It incorporates the use of a lightweight container and a patented coolant in cans. Although it was developed specifically for A. thompsoni it was also used successfully for shipping other species.

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