Through understanding the application scenarios in the industry, it is not difficult to find that after end devices are endowed with edge computing capability, their business and computing processes gradually tend to be complicated, and the communication and collaboration processes are gradually cumbersome. Therefore, a reliable edge computing gateway platform is needed to further coordinate and manage its own business as well as the terminal devices under it, and further manage and control its own computing and storage capacity.
Characteristics of edge computing gateway platform
1. Persistance du service de base
Les services de base de la plate-forme de passerelle informatique périphérique doivent être conservés dans l'espace de stockage et démarrer automatiquement lorsque la passerelle est mise sous tension. Étant donné que la passerelle est toujours un appareil final de l'opérateur, ses services de réseau nécessaires, ses services de tunneling, ses services vocaux, ses services sans fil et d'autres services doivent être contrôlés par l'opérateur, et ces services ne doivent pas changer en fonction des modifications apportées à l'application de l'utilisateur.
2. Platform Architecture Microservices
Edge computing gateway platform subsystems, plug-ins, applications, etc. are divided into service granularity, and the micro-services formed by the division are strictly decoupled by service, and the services, as well as third-party cloud applications, are allowed to interact with each other only through the open API, and are not permitted to directly share data or interact with each other through the private API; and the services can be independently developed, independently released and independently upgraded; The services are visible, manageable, controllable, measurable, maintainable and self-healing.
3. Conteneurisation universelle des applications
La passerelle Edge Computing implique un grand nombre d'applications, différentes applications nécessitant des ressources et des environnements très différents. Avec l'essor de l'informatique en nuage, l'ordonnancement, l'orchestration et la gestion unifiés deviennent progressivement indispensables. De bonnes capacités d'ordonnancement et de gestion des conteneurs déterminent souvent directement le pouvoir d'attraction de la passerelle Edge computing. passerelle périphérique de la plateforme. Il convient toutefois de noter que les services de base ne doivent pas être conteneurisés.
4. Services de communication légers
Les plates-formes passerelles d'informatique périphérique doivent communiquer en permanence avec l'informatique en nuage parce qu'elles se trouvent à l'extrémité, et les services de communication lourds ont tendance à aggraver la charge de calcul des dispositifs à l'extrémité, tout en consommant davantage de ressources. Par conséquent, les protocoles de communication légers permettent non seulement à la plateforme de passerelle informatique périphérique de communiquer rapidement avec la plateforme d'informatique en nuage pour une collaboration fiable avec cette dernière, mais aussi de gérer avec souplesse les données de communication avec la plateforme d'informatique en nuage.
5. Applications personnalisées intelligentes
The applications running on the edge computing gateway platform should be as intelligent as possible. On the one hand, further use of the edge computing power of the edge gateway can avoid unnecessary waste of computing resources; at the same time, providing intelligent applications for the terminals or end users under the gateway can greatly facilitate the operation of the user, and bring a good experience for the user or device.
6. Timing des données déconnectées
When the edge computing gateway is in the state of disconnection or weak network, in order to ensure that the user’s data is not lost or to ensure that the service is available as much as possible, the data at this time should be time-sequenced. When the gateway recovers the network connection, the data will be further interacted according to the time sequence, thus effectively avoiding the loss of data retransmission and ensuring the availability of services.
7. Invocation flexible des ressources
sSince the computing and storage resources on the edge computing gateway are still limited compared to the server, its computing or storage resources should have the characteristics of elasticity, scalability and flexible use. Thus, the use of resources on the gateway device can be maximised.
With the gradual emergence of 5G and WIFI6 technology, more and more gateway devices join 5G and WIFI6. 5G can ensure that the edge gateway has high bandwidth and low latency, and with the continuous improvement of the 5G standard, with the 5G slice of the edge gateway will be in the field of edge computing to make a big difference.
WIFI6 provides a good wireless environment on the user side, which makes the high-definition video, game acceleration, AR/VR gradually rise in the user side, more and more users will embrace these applications, and edge computing gateway platform combined with its own hardware computing power, will provide users with rich applications while providing a good user experience.