Title
Low latency MEC framework for SDN-based LTE/LTE-A networks
Abstract
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) consists of deploying computing resources (CPU, storage) at the edge of mobile networks; typically near or with eNodeBs. Besides easing the deployment of applications and services requiring low access to the remote server, such as Virtual Reality and Vehicular IoT, MEC will enable the development of context-aware and context-optimized applications, thanks to the Radio API (e.g. information on user channel quality) exposed by eNodeBs. Although ETSI is defining the architecture specifications, solutions to integrate MEC to the current 3GPP architecture are still open. In this paper, we fill this gap by proposing and implementing a Software Defined Networking (SDN)-based MEC framework, compliant with both ETSI and 3GPP architectures. It provides the required data-plane flexibility and programmability, which can on-the-fly improve the latency as a function of the network deployment and conditions. To illustrate the benefit of using SDN concept for the MEC framework, we present the details of software architecture as well as performance evaluations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICC.2017.7996359
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
MEC,SDN,LTE,OpenFlow,Programmability
Edge computing,Mobile computing,Software deployment,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Mobile edge computing,Software architecture,Latency (engineering),Software-defined networking,LTE Advanced
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-3607
978-1-4673-9000-2
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anta Huang1203.41
Navid Nikaein285878.83
Tore Stenbock370.60
Adlen Ksentini4108593.20
Christian Bonnet589968.13