RescureService: A Benchmark Microservice System for the Research of Mobile Edge and Cloud Computing

Abstract: The dramatic development of cloud and edge computing allows for better Quality of Service (QoS) in many scenarios by deploying services on cloud and edge servers. Microservice technology is also adopted in these scenarios to decompose complex business logic into many small independent services. Meanwhile, as microservice systems continue to grow, providing stable QoS in these systems becomes a challenge, and many different approaches have been proposed for stable QoS. However, the microservice systems used in the experiments of these work have problems such as the low number of services and a single type of service. Therefore, we developed the open-source benchmark microservice system RescureService with 20+ services, including database, front-end, business logic, data processing, and artificial intelligence services in the disaster relief scenario. Measuring tools are provided to measure the service properties to help researchers prepare experimental data, and the service properties pre-measured are also presented. Meanwhile, the fulfillment of benchmark requirements is detailed, and the results show that our RescureService meets the requirements of a benchmark system in research. Moreover, instructions are given to describe adopting our system in service computing as examples.