Location-Based Service Discovery for Mobile-Edge Computing Using DNS

Abstract

Service discovery combined with security usually plays a role in defining if an application shall be provided in EDGE/FOG or cloud. Most existing solutions focus on the ability of the infrastructure itself to distribute the clients, but it usually raises the question to identify a trustworthy server. We also want to explore the capabilities of mobile devices for service discovery, especially in terms of location awareness, which will aid us to identify the best suitable FOG/EDGE server. We shift the paradigm of searching an edge-instance to addressing an edge based on the location of the mobile device. To do so, we use DNS, and by using sub-domains, we address a location and an app and will use the identified instance for further user processing.