A Novel Genetic Service Function Deployment Management Platform for Edge Computing

Table 1

Comparison between cloud and edge computing.

Attributes	Cloud computing	Edge computing
Latency	Relatively high (50 ms ∼ 55 ms)	Relatively low (1 ms∼6 ms)
Security control	Nonlocally controllable	Locally controllable
Access type	Wide area network (WAN)	Local area network (LAN)
Servers locations	Mainly in the data centres	Mainly in the microdata centre
Architecture	Centralized	Decentralized
Suitable applications	High computing capacity	Lower latency
Services management	Cloud service providers	Edge applications managers
Computing resources	Relatively high (>100 origin servers)	Relatively low (1∼10 edge servers)