Towards an autonomic approach for edge computing

Abstract

Abstract Nowadays, one of the biggest challenges for companies is to cope with the high cost of their information technologies infrastructure. Edge computing is a new computing paradigm designed to allocate on‐demand computing and storage resources. Those resources are Web cache servers scattered over the ISP backbones. We argue that this paradigm could be applied for on‐demand full application hosting, helping to reduce costs. In this paper, we present a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) dynamic server able to deploy/host J2EE applications on demand and its autonomic manager. For this, we reengineer and experiment with JOnAS, an open‐source J2EE static server. Two management policies of the autonomic manager were stressed by a simulation of a worldwide ISP network. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.