Survey on Multi-Access Edge Computing for Internet of Things Realization

Pawani Porambage, Jude Okwuibe, Madhusanka Liyanage, Mika Ylianttila, Tarik Taleb

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    Abstract

    The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently advanced from an experimental technology to what will become the backbone of future customer value for both product and service sector businesses. This underscores the cardinal role of IoT on the journey towards the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems. IoT technologies augmented with intelligent and big data analytics are expected to rapidly change the landscape of myriads of application domains ranging from health care to smart cities and industrial automations. The emergence of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) technology aims at extending cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the radio access network, hence providing real-time, high-bandwidth, low-latency access to radio network resources. IoT is identified as a key use case of MEC, given MEC’s ability to provide cloud platform and gateway services at the network edge. MEC will inspire the development of myriads of applications and services with demand for ultra low latency and high Quality of Service (QoS) due to its dense geographical distribution and wide support for mobility. MEC is therefore an important enabler of IoT applications and services which require real-time operations. In this survey, we provide a holistic overview on the exploitation of MEC technology for the realization of IoT applications and their synergies. We further discuss the technical aspects of enabling MEC in IoT and provide some insight into various other integration technologies therein.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2961 - 2991
    Number of pages32
    JournalIEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
    Volume20
    Issue number4
    Early online date20 Jun 2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    MoE publication typeA2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review

    Keywords

    • 5G
    • edge computing
    • Internet of Things (IoT)
    • latency
    • Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)
    • network architecture
    • reliability.
    • virtualization

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