Strategic Deployment of Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cloudlets for Low-latency Human-to-Machine Applications

Abstract

The genesis of mobile cloud computing technology is one of the most significant technical advents of the last decade which can be seen as a marriage between cloud computing and mobile computing technologies. This technical paradigm brings mobile users, telecommunication network operators, and cloud service providers to a common playground, thus providing business opportunities for network operators and cloud service providers. The extension of this facility towards access networks by aggregation of edge-intelligence nodes like cloudlets is one more step forward. A cloudlet is a ``data centre in a box" with enhanced mobility support to bring the cloud closer to mobile users and uses virtual m..