QoE-Oriented Mobile Edge Service Management Leveraging SDN and NFV

Shuping Peng, Jose Oscar Fajardo, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Begoña Blanco, Fidel Liberal, Cristina Ruiz, Charles Turyagyenda, Mick Wilson, Sunil Vadgama
2017 Mobile Information Systems  
5G envisages a "hyperconnected society" where trillions of diverse entities could communicate with each other anywhere and at any time, some of which will demand extremely challenging performance requirements such as submillisecond low latency. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) concept where application computing resources are deployed at the edge of the mobile network in proximity of an end user is a promising solution to improve quality of online experience. To make MEC more flexible and
more » ... ive Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies are widely adopted. It leads to significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction with the help of a joint radio-cloud management and orchestration logic. In this paper we discuss and develop a reference architecture for the orchestration and management of the MEC ecosystem. Along with the lifecycle management flows of MEC services, indicating the interactions among the functional modules inside the Orchestrator and with external elements, QoS management with a focus on the channel state information technique is presented.
doi:10.1155/2017/3961689 fatcat:e3guxsz2uzhpdniigm5uxfr7km