An analytical framework for URLLC in hybrid MEC environments

Autor: Kelvin Lopes Dias, Andson Balieiro, Marcos Falcao, Caio Bruno Souza
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The Journal of Supercomputing. 78:2245-2264
ISSN: 1573-0484
0920-8542
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-021-03945-8
Popis: The conventional mobile architecture is unlikely to cope with Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) constraints, being a major cause for its fundamentals to remain elusive. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) emerge as complementary solutions, offering fine-grained on-demand distributed resources closer to the User Equipment (UE). This work proposes a multipurpose analytical framework that evaluates a hybrid virtual MEC environment that combines VMs and Containers strengths to concomitantly meet URLLC constraints and cloud-like Virtual Network Functions (VNF) elasticity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE