Unveiling the Potential of the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A Deep Dive into...

Over the past few years, our society has witnessed a growing digitalization trend, with its procedures undergoing a progressive shift into digital manifestations. As an essential technology for digital society, graphs provide a universal abstraction to represent concepts and objects and the relationships between them. On the other hand, the advancement of networking paradigms and steadily increasing numbers of users who prefer to watch video content over the Internet rather than using classical TV have made video the predominant traffic on the Internet. Fog and edge computing expand the capabilities of high-performance cloud data centers by incorporating nodes in close proximity to the data sources located at the network’s edge. The edge-cloud continuum enables the creation of a new type of services spanning across distributed infrastructures. However, processing massive data in a representation of Graph or video sequences on the edge-cloud continuum raises numerous challenges concerning resource management, Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Service (QoS), performance, and sustainability metrics. This talk first presents the key concepts of two widely recognized applications, namely, video streaming and graph processing. It also outlines multiple critical challenges for processing these applications within the edge-cloud continuum. It finally introduces two innovative frameworks applied within each use case to address these concerns.