Efficient Load Balancing Method using Multi-Hop Network in Edge Computing Environment

Load balancing in the edge computing has recently emerged as an important research topic due to manage the computing burden among edge nodes. However, there was no implementation and study at the hardware level yet. Rather system-level methodologies are studied. This paper aims to design and implement a multi-hop system for the efficient load balancing. Due to its multi-hop nature, this system can be applied to a variety of edge computing scenarios. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed load balancing system, we implemented FPGA based multi-hop system and compare the proposed load balancing system with conventional one. Validation results show that the communication success rate by the proposed method is higher up to 33%.