Application Orchestration in Mobile Edge Cloud: Placing of IoT Applications to the Edge

Mobile edge computing offers distributed cloud-computing capabilities and IT service environment to application developers and content providers to take advantage the close proximity to the end user and their devices. It opens up a huge innovation potential also for new verticals among them Internet of Things type of applications. Application orchestration plays a key role to use of these new distributed resources. In this article we investigate what kind of benefits mobile edge computing can offer to Internet of Things deployments and what is the role of application life cycle management and application orchestration in the mobile edge computing. Particular focus is on how virtual network functions are to be orchestrated with mobile edge characteristics. Finally, we present a solution to an optimization problem encountered in the resource allocation across distributed resources.