Fatias (Leves) como um Serviço: Uma Solução para Dispositivos Móveis na Borda da Rede

Abstract: Cloud Network Slicing (CNS) is the process of isolating end-to-end, on-demand, independently controlled, managed, and/or orchestrated cloud and network resources, which are called slices. In this context, one can consider devices with low computational power, such as mobile devices, to provide resources for slices, thus bringing services even closer to the end users. However, platforms that provide Slice as a Service (SlaaS) do not allocate mobile devices as part of the slice. In this sense, this paper presents a SlaaS platform that allocates mobile devices as part of the slice. For this, lightweight virtualization is used instead of full virtualization to do the slice instantiation. The results show it is possible to allocate mobile devices as part of the slice. The results obtained show that the solution is promising because of better performance in lightweight virtualization compared to full virtualization.