Stéphane Delbruel-Metaview

Stéphane Delbruel and Laurent Réveillère from the Progress team (SeD department), along with Léo Mendiboure (University of Pau), have had an article accepted for the prestigious INFOCOM conference (A* ranking) which will be held from May 18 to 21 in Tokyo, to present their work entitled “FairMEC: Achieving Fair Resource Sharing in Multi-Access Edge Computing Federations.” 

With 5G and edge computing, operators are sharing their mini data centers to offer users ultra-fast services, wherever they are. Today, many of these sharing solutions focus on the user experience, overlooking the issues faced by operators themselves: their servers with varying capacities, their tight (or not so tight) budgets, and above all, the balance of exchanges between operators. The result? Some find themselves overwhelmed, playing the role of “good Samaritans” without anything in return. 
An approach inspired by game theory is proposed to remedy this: each operator “negotiates” the hosting of applications in real time, without revealing sensitive data, via a light auction system. The goal is to meet application deadlines, take into account available resources (processor, memory, storage), and ensure fairness to prevent any player from demanding more than they contribute. 
This is a step forward for more equitable and transparent MEC federations, with all tools published in open access to accelerate research and innovation.