A Survey on Virtualized Platform for Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Technology
AUTHORS
SeungMin Oh,School of Electronic and Computer Engineering,Chonnam National University,Yongbo-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
Akm Ashiquzzaman,School of Electronic and Computer Engineering,Chonnam National University,Yongbo-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
DongSu Lee,School of Electronic and Computer Engineering,Chonnam National University,Yongbo-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
ABSTRACT
Traditional centralized clouds have the benefits of convenience, scalability, efficiency, and so on. However, if it is difficult to provide ultra-low delay services in traditional settings. The main limitation of centralized server is the single point of failure can lead up to whole system shutdown. This also leads to the computation bottleneck in the main server as the center server handles all the requests and basic computations. Multi-access Edge computing (MEC) server placed near the user to provide distributed computing. This process also handled the intelligent services such as data collection and analysis and artificial intelligence processing. The provision of MEC technology requires Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined network (SDN), and virtualization platform technologies. This paper provides descriptions of these MEC, NFV, SDN, and virtualization platforms, as well as some technologies for virtualization platforms. In this research, we have made a detailed survey of currently existing all the MEC based technology and their implementation in the industry and academia. We have gathered comprehensive and detailed technology for each platform. This will provide a detailed manual for further research for MEC application and implementation in future research.
KEYWORDS
MEC, Multi-access Edge Computing, NFV, SDN, Virtualized Platform, OpenBaton, ONAP, EdgeX
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