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
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.
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.
Edge computing confines data processing of IoT/big data applications to local servers on the network edge so as to reduce network bandwidth consumption. In the process, it reduces latency by offloading some of the computation-intensive work that was supposed to be done entirely on the cloud
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.
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.
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.
Within the past 10 years our societies technological advantages have been somewhat space age like, even alien like characteristics. Technologies, which ten years ago only existed in our dreams but yet, have become reality. Things like, the revolutionary iPhone and its almost seamless touch-screen tech; as well as the new advancements in our cultures most prized possession, The Internet. In this subject-based paper, I will take a closer look into a fairly new emerging technology, which is simply referred to as…Cloud Technology. The synopsis will cover, what and how cloud technology works, its
Cloud computing is an emerging model where users can gain access to their applications from anywhere through their connected devices. A simplified user interface makes the infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively-scalable data centers where compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. A strong service management platform results in near-zero incremental management costs when more IT resources are added to the cloud. The proliferation of smart mobile devices, high speed wireless connectivity, and rich browser-based Web 2.0 interfaces has made the network-based cloud computing model not only practical but
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.
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.
Cloud computing is a topic of which much is assumed. The average person recognizes the term “cloud computing” as having to do with their storage from their iPad or iPhone on the online storage area which syncs their Apple devices to their computer. This common cloud is called the iCloud. That is where common knowledge ends about this topic. However, upon further exploration, a deeper understanding is gained with greater explanation, and it is realized that cloud computing is something that is used all of the time on many levels of everyday technology. While the terminology remains cryptic to the mind of most people, the concepts behind the practical uses of cloud computing become quite clear. It is relatable and understandable. Upon this revelation, the iCloud is recognized as the tip of the preverbal iceberg when speaking about cloud computing. It is important to discuss and further understand the many types of cloud computing as well as the various applications to life through technology. This affects how information is stored online, computers are protected, information is secured, emails are processed, and many other factors that are taken for granted in the world of technology. Cloud computing is a general term used to describe how information is stored, utilized, and accessed over the internet. There is no cloud, but the word cloud gives the connotation of an abstract place which is known to exist but is too vast to touch or contain (Griffith,
In this way, mobile computing has brought some major changes to the internet world; some of them include cloud computing, social media services and e-commerce. Cloud computing is a service through which users can compute data, use applications and save their data online on internet. This stored data and applications can be accessed anywhere anytime. For example, if a user saves some data online in cloud from home desktop and then finds a need to access while being on a trip, it can be easily accessed through mobile phone or laptop just by connecting to internet. Similarly, applications can be used while being mobile.
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
Energy efficiency: Wireless/mobile broadband infrastructures account for more than 50% of the energy consumption of telecommunication operator networks, while the amount of global energy consumption of ICT approaches 4.5% with a rising trend4. It is important that future 5G networks meet requirements