Edge federation simulator for data stream analytics

The technological revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming our society by registering and analyzing users and infrastructures’ behavior in order to develop new services for improving life quality and resource management. IoT-based applications demand a vast amount of both localized and location-based information services. For these scenarios, current cloud-based services appear to be inefficient in terms of latency, throughput and power consumption. Edge computing proposes new infrastructures for effective real-time decision making. These facilities should be able to process a vast amount of data from multiple geographically distributed sources. To that end, new urban edge data centers are to be deployed, bringing computing resources closer to data sources while reducing both core network congestion and overall energy demand. This paper presents an Edge Federation simulator for data stream analytics in a 5G scenario that provides the necessary resource management for efficient service-oriented computing.