Elevating the Edge to be a Peer of the Cloud

Abstract: The surge of cyber-physical systems around us has led to the emergence of novel use-cases like smart surveillance and smart cars. These use-cases either involve high amounts of machine-to-machine communication or are highly interactive, making low-latency response to events critically important. Traditional cloud computing paradigm is unsuitable for such applications due to high network latency to datacenters, leading to the emergence of the edge computing paradigm.