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AdvantEDGE is a Mobile Edge Emulation Platform (MEEP) that runs on Docker & Kubernetes.

AdvantEDGE provides an emulation environment, enabling experimentation with Edge Computing Technologies, Applications, and Services. The platform facilitates users to explore edge / fog deployment models and their impact to applications and services in short and agile iterations.

Motivation

• Accelerate Mobile Edge Computing adoption
• Discover new edge application use cases & services
• Help to answer questions such as:
  • Where should my application components be located in the edge network?
  • How do network characteristics (such as latency, jitter, and packet loss) impact my application or service?
  • How will my application behave when the user moves within and across access networks?

Intended Users

• Edge Application Developers
• Edge Network and Service Designers
• Edge Researchers
• Technologists that are simply interestied learning how the Edge works

Concepts

An understanding of some AdvantEDGE concepts is helpful towards effectively using the platform and understanding how it works.

Before getting started we recommend familiarity with key AdvantEDGE platform concepts

Getting started

• Setup runtime environment (Ubuntu/Dockers/Kubernetes/Helm)

• Clone the AdvantEDGE repo

  git clone https://github.com/InterDigitalInc/AdvantEDGE.git
  

  Note: Assumes local gitdir = ~/AdvantEDGE

• Obtain AdvantEDGE binaries

  • Build from source
  • Optionally use pre-built binaries (from GitHub release)

    # Get bin folder tarball from desired release
    cd ~/AdvantEDGE
    tar -zxvf advantedge.<version>.linux-amd64.tar.gz
    

• Setup meepctl tool

  • Copy to an executable path

    sudo cp ~/AdvantEDGE/bin/meepctl/meepctl /usr/local/bin/
    

  • Configure

    meepctl config ip <your-node-ip>
    meepctl config gitdir /home/<user>/AdvantEDGE
    

• Deploy AdvantEDGE

• Use AdvantEDGE

  • Configure, deploy & monitor scenarios as defined in wiki USE section
  • Start with basic operations

Building

• Setup development environment (Ubuntu/Go/Node.js/NPM/Linters)

• Clone the AdvantEDGE repo
  git clone https://github.com/<your-fork>/AdvantEDGE.git
  (assuming local gitdir = ~/AdvantEDGE)

• Build AdvantEDGE

Testing

The AdvantEDGE platform test procedures are described here

Upstream communication

We use GitHub issues.

So just open an issue in the repo to provide user feedback, report software bugs or request enhancements.

Licensing

Currently licensed under the Apache 2.0 License

How to Contribute

We welcome feedback and improvement suggestions. Please open a Git issue in the repo to report bugs or request enhancements.

At this time, we are not ready to accept pull requests. However, we plan to do so in the future.

In the meantime, if you have interest in becoming an AdvantEDGE contributor, we would like to hear from you.

We can be reached at [email protected]