Introducing mobile edge computing capabilities through distributed 5G Cloud Enabled Small Cells
| Autor: | Roberto Riggio, Vincenzo Pii, Claudio Meani, Ioannis Giannoulakis, Fidel Liberal, Leonardo Goratti, Javier Garcia Lloreda, Pavel Bliznakov, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Maria Belesioti, Irena Trajkovska, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Jordi Pérez-Romero, Michele Paolino, Thomas Michael Bohnert, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas |
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| Přispěvatelé: | European Commission, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GRCM - Grup de Recerca en Comunicacions Mòbils |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Small cells
Computer science Air interface Distributed computing Mobile computing Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology SOFTWARE small cells INFORMATION SYSTEMS Comunicacions mòbils Sistemes de Centralised mobile networks 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering centralised mobile networks HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE Light data centre Mobile edge computing Access network COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS business.industry 020206 networking & telecommunications 621.3 - Enginyeria elèctrica. Electrotècnia. Telecomunicacions Cellular network Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Comunicacions mòbils [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Data center mobile edge computing Mobile communication systems business 5G Computer network |
| Zdroj: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname Mobile Networks and Applications Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| Popis: | Current trends in broadband mobile networks are addressed towards the placement of different capabilities at the edge of the mobile network in a centralised way. On one hand, the split of the eNB between baseband processing units and remote radio headers makes it possible to process some of the protocols in centralised premises, likely with virtualised resources. On the other hand, mobile edge computing makes use of processing and storage capabilities close to the air interface in order to deploy optimised services with minimum delay. The confluence of both trends is a hot topic in the definition of future 5G networks. The full centralisation of both technologies in cloud data centres imposes stringent requirements to the fronthaul connections in terms of throughput and latency. Therefore, all those cells with limited network access would not be able to offer these types of services. This paper proposes a solution for these cases, based on the placement of processing and storage capabilities close to the remote units, which is especially well suited for the deployment of clusters of small cells. The proposed cloud-enabled small cells include a highly efficient microserver with a limited set of virtualised resources offered to the cluster of small cells. As a result, a light data centre is created and commonly used for deploying centralised eNB and mobile edge computing functionalities. The paper covers the proposed architecture, with special focus on the integration of both aspects, and possible scenarios of application. European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 671596 |
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