Authors:
Tarciso Braz de Oliveira Filho
1
;
Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares
2
;
1
;
Thiago Fonseca Meneses
1
;
Adauto Ferreira de Barros
1
;
Aramis Sales Araujo
1
and
Danilo F. S. Santos
1
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of Campina Grande, VIRTUS - Research, Development and Innovation Center, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil
;
2
Federal Institute of Pernambuco, Caruaru, PE, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Message Formats, Edge Computing, Video Inference Applications.
Abstract:
The increasing integration of 5G, multi-access edge computing (MEC), and microservices, benefits the development of applications that demand low coupling, low communication latency, high scalability, and high availability. An usual scenario that deals with such requirements is a video application, either to process inference on video images or process video analytics. Given that video data are considered heavy to process and transmit, we should investigate the best way to handle such data. This work presents an experimental setup for the comparison between four data formats used to send video frames among distributed application components in a MEC server. We measured and analyzed the communication latency when sending video data between distributed parties, considering three scenarios.