Augmented Computing at the Edge Using Named Data Networking

Edge computing is considered vital to IoT evolution, enabling the timely execution of various computational tasks for constrained devices utilizing external resources. The conventional host-based network architectures become a bottleneck for further development of edge computing, primarily when serving latencysensitive applications. Further, existing approaches do not exploit complex data correlations in the network layer for optimization. This paper demonstrates that Named Data Networking (NDN) has the potential to enable efficient support for mobile users offloading their time-sensitive computing tasks to edge servers. For this purpose, the NDN protocol was enhanced with a server selection procedure, capable of adjusting for the varying resource availability on edge servers. The results of the experiments show clear support for using NDN in these scenarios, with individual gains coming not just from Interest aggregation and caching, which are NDN features, but also from dynamic server selection.