Slicing in locavore infrastructures

Abstract

A Locavore Infrastructure is one which has all of its elements in high-bandwidth and low-latency proximity. It typically combines edge computing elements with an adjacent access network. The growing number of communicating devices and things creates a large and often steady demand for collecting and integrating local information in a Locavore Infrastructure. Slices of this infrastructure can provide architectural advantages in security, meeting performance expectations, and billing. Dynamic slices can provide some of the same kinds of surge capabilities for which traditional cloud computing is prized. Slices can be implemented using a variety of orchestration techniques.