Abstract
Modern applications such as augmented reality, connected vehicles, video streaming and gaming have stringent requirements on latency, bandwidth and computation resources. The explosion in data generation by mobile devices has further exacerbated the situation. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a recent addition to the edge computing paradigm that amalgamates the cloud computing capabilities with cellular communications. The concept of MEC is to relocate the cloud capabilities to the edge of the network for yielding ultra-low latency, high computation, high bandwidth, low burden on the core network, enhanced quality of experience (QoE), and efficient resource utilization. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview on different traits of MEC including its use cases, architecture, computation offloading, security, economic aspects, research challenges, and potential future directions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4849-4864 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Oct 2019 |
Keywords
- 5G wireless networks
- Cloud computing
- Computation offloading
- Edge computing
- Fog computing and cloudlet computing
- Mobile edge computing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Computer Networks and Communications