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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2019.10.002

An Overview of Mobile Edge Computing: Architecture, Technology and Direction  

Rasheed, Arslan (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology)
Chong, Peter Han Joo (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology)
Ho, Ivan Wang-Hei (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Li, Xue Jun (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology)
Liu, William (Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.13, no.10, 2019 , pp. 4849-4864 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Edge computing; mobile edge computing; cloud computing; 5G wireless networks; fog computing and cloudlet computing; computation offloading;
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