Applying Toroidal k-ary Grids for Optimizing Edge Data Centers

Abstract

IoT deployments are growing exponentially, leading to a huge increase in edge computing facilities. In order to cope with such a demand, data centers need to get customized for the specific requirements of edge computing, such as a small number of physical servers and the ability to scale and unscale according to the traffic flows running at a given time. In this context, artificial intelligence plays a key part as it may anticipate when traffic throughput will increase or otherwise by scrutinizing current traffic whilst considering other factors like historical data and network baselines. In this paper, a dynamic framework is outlined based on toroidal k-ary grids so as to organize and optimize small data centers, allowing them to increase or decrease according to the current and predicted capacity of IoT-generated traffic flows.