TY - JOUR AU - Reale, A. AU - Kiss, P. AU - Ferrari, C. AU - Kovacs, B. AU - Szilagyi, L. AU - Toth, M. PY - 2018/06/19 TI - Application Functions Placement Optimization in a Mobile Distributed Cloud Environment JF - Studia Universitatis BabeČ™-Bolyai Informatica; Vol 63 No 2 (2018)DO - 10.24193/subbi.2018.2.03 KW - N2 -  Distributed Computing in 5G Mobile Networks is a potential requirement for certain applications that depends on low latency and information sharing through or with data information sources. Such applications may be observed as a distributed application. We present a tool and method to optimize the deployment of distributed applications, dividing it into Modules, in a 5G Mobile Network environment. To do so we apply an approximation algorithm for the Path Computation and Function Placement Problem described in [1]. We show that under certain circumstances it is beneficial to deploy parts of such applications in a Cloud Computing environment with Distributed Cloud resources at the Mobile Network Edge. We verify our findings with an example, an Augmented Reality application. UR - https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/article/view/27