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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 exploring edge / fog deployment models and their impact on applications and services in short and agile iterations.

Motivation

• Accelerate Mobile Edge Computing adoption
• Help Discover new edge application use cases & services
• Help 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 interested learning how the Edge works

Concepts

Understanding AdvantEDGE core concepts is necessary to effectively use the platform.

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

How to Contribute

As of June 2020, we can accept contributions to the project.

If you like this project and would like to participate in its evolution, you can find information on contributing here

We welcome questions, feedback and improvement suggestions via Git Discussions and bugs reporting via Git Issues

Hope to hear from you...

Licensing

AdvantEDGE is licensed under under the Apache License, Version 2.0