Introduction:
This report will talk about Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) within the Radio Access Network (RAN). Although not a new concept, this report will explore why MEC is relevant for network applications and how it can be used to cope with the increasing demand of computing power from the cloud. It will also explore the potential application scenarios and the benefits it can bring in our everyday life.
Mobile Edge Computing Background Information:
The number of smart devices connected to the internet is expected to increase significantly over the next decade. Thus, data generated by these smart devices sent to the remote cloud will also increase significantly. The European Commission predicts that there will be 50 to 100 billion smart
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MEC is also relevant in the implementation of 5G networks. The benefits that MEC will bring into the evolution of 5G networks are listed below:
Compute-intensive applications executed at the network edge will help optimize mobile resources [3]
Large data can be processed at the edge before being sent to the clouds [3]
Context-aware services, such as real-time traffic updates, become available with the help of RAN information [3]
Networks operators are motivated to maintain quality of experience and generate revenue and therefore need to efficiently cope with the increasing mobile traffic. As mobile applications and content migrate to the cloud, the latency of the network to access the cloud becomes a major concern. For application and content providers to deliver more efficient, secure and low latency connections, deployment of such applications or content at the edge of the network becomes essential [4]. According to the European Standards Institute, the market drivers of MEC are:
Business transformation: Technology improvements and new revenue generating applications help innovate new business strategies
Industry collaboration: Collaboration between network operators and application and content providers is essential for optimal access
Cisco estimates that there are currently 25 billion connected devices worldwide, a number that could jump to 50 billion by 2020. These billions of devices generate data all the time, most of which is a waste hence it is neither sensible nor efficient to send all of this raw data to the cloud. This problem makes a strong case for putting the computing capabilities closer to where devices are located, rather than having all data sent over networks to central data centers. Edge analytics benefits here by providing a platform to filter and analyze the data generated by these devices close to the edge. This drastically reduces the traffic being sent to the cloud and makes information management more
The main tasks of this framework are to analyze and determine the smart activities of these intelligent devices through maintaining a dynamic interconnection among those devices. The proposed framework will help to standardize IoT infrastructure so that it can receive e-services based on context information leaving the current infrastructure unchanged. The active collaboration of these heterogeneous devices and protocols can lead to future ambient computing where the maximum utilization of cloud computing will be ensured.
Technology changes in 2010 made way for new opportunities and competition for eLoanDocs. Technology vendors like Amazon began to offer cloud computing. Cloud computing is a non-platform dependency network of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, grid computing, and utility computing that allows manipulating, configuring, and accessing applications online (Cain et al., p. 765). There is no evidence of trail to the host server.
This paper is organized as follows: Section II will discuss the evolution of mobile wireless networks, Section III will introduce objectives of the 5G mobile network, Section IV will talk about goals to be evaluated in 5G wireless network communications, and Section V will present some concluding remarks.
Nokia CloudBand features lean operations support and facilitates business agility for operators and service providers. CloudBand is ETSI NFV MANO compliant system with commercially proven reliability, automation, repeatability and security. Deployed for several combinations of Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) along with its Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM), multi-vendor VNFs including Nokia’s own VNFs as well, generic VNF Manager (GVNFM), and Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFO). This systems is also used for cloud management in Nokia’s Government Cloud Enablement Platform project.
As this demand for dynamic and unpredictable data grows, more and more devices have to be added to existing networks and configured accordingly. The need of the hour is to regulate networks centrally and as a whole rather than configure individual network devices and gain more control to achieve flexibility in existing networks.
Internetworks, or the Internet, allow for the remote supplying of IT resources to the people and are directly helpful in network access in far and wide. Cloud consumers can access the cloud using only private and dedicated network links in LANs, although most clouds are Internet-enabled. The Cloud platforms generally grows in parallel with improvement in Internet connectivity and service quality, which leads to its potentiality.
Today is the world of IOT (Internet of things) and so that data is producing at very high rate in the form of Big data. That is why it becomes very difficult for companies and organizations to invest too much upfront cost for the setup of infrastructure and platform to handle this big amount of data. Cloud computing has come in boom around the year 2007 with rapidly growing innovative social and business organizations. Cloud computing allows its users to use the on-demand resources from shared pool of configurable resources at a very nominal price.
Cloud Computing appears as a computational paradigm as well as a distribution architecture and its main objective is to provide secure, quick, convenient data storage and net computing service, with all computing resources visualized as services and delivered over the Internet [2,3]. The cloud enhances collaboration, agility, scalability, availability, ability to adapt to fluctuations according to demand, accelerate development work, and provides potential for cost reduction through optimized and efficient computing [4].As the data
Latency: provide service-level latency down to about 1ms (when needed) for tactile Internet, interactive and immersive experiences as well as standard Internet services.
The report list out the various tangible and intangible benefits of implementing cloud. It also looks at the risks of implementing the cloud and measures to mitigate these risks. An implementation roadmap to transition to the cloud is outlined. The timeline is estimated based on implementations done by other enterprises. To further reiterate the significance of the proposal, the case study of implementing cloud by Dish TV is presented. Dish TV has benefited immensely by this initiative. DEN Networks having the same line of business and similar organization
Current issues and further improvement identified areas- As we know; QoS-enabled traditional networks endeavor to guarantee:
Every few years the ever-changing business climate requires technology to transform to meet new market demands. One such change is creating a converged private cloud infrastructure, a culmination of several IT infrastructure trends, all of which provide value for today’s enterprise data center.
Data is more pervasive than ever. In the new Hyperconnected World underpinned by the Internet of Things (IoT), people and things are increasingly connected. By 2020, there will be 50 billion networked devices. As individuals – whether on a personal level or representing their organizations – communicate and socialize more online and on mobile, a whole new collection of data will become available. This level of connectivity will have profound social, political and economic consequences.