Mobility and Dependence-aware QoS Monitoring in Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm that performs computing on the edge of a network. It provides services to users by deploying edge servers near mobile devices. Services may be unavailable or do not satisfy the needs of users due to changing edge environments. Quality of service (QoS) is commonly employed as a critical means to indicate qualitative status of services. It is particularly important to monitor QoS of services timely and effectively in the mobile edge environment. However, user mobility and dependencies among QoS values often cause the monitoring results to deviate from the real results in the mobile edge environment. Existing QoS monitoring approaches have not taken into account these problems. To address the problems, this paper proposes ghBSRM-MEC (Gaussian hidden BayeSian Runtime Monitoring for Mobile Edge Computing), a novel mobility and dependence-aware QoS monitoring approach for the mobile edge environment. This approach assumes that the QoS attribute values of edge servers obey Gaussian distribution. It constructs a parent property for each property, thus reducing the dependence between properties. During the training stage, a Gaussian Hidden Bayesian classifier is constructed for each edge server. During the monitoring stage, combining with a KNN algorithm, the classifier is changed dynamically based on user mobility to realize QoS monitoring in the mobile edge environment. The experimental results validate the feasibility, effectiveness, and efficiency of ghBSRM-MEC