Computing Power Network: A Testbed and Applications with Edge Intelligence

Abstract

Computing Power Network (CPN) is a novel evolution of multi-access edge computing, which is expected to apply ubiquitous computing resources with intelligence and flexibility. In this paper, we implement the prototype testbed of CPN based on Kubernetes with microservice architecture, realizing key enabling technologies of CPN including computing modelling, computing awareness, computing announcement and computing offloading. We evaluate the performance of the testbed with typical Internet services with intelligent inferences, which are delay-sensitive and compute-intensive. Experimental results reveal that our CPN testbed can realize shorter response latency and better load balancing performance in comparison with traditional edge computing paradigm.