Toward enabled industrial verticals in 5G: A survey on MEC-based approaches to provisioning and flexibility

F Spinelli, V Mancuso - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing number of heterogeneous devices connected to the Internet, together with
tight 5G requirements have generated new challenges for designing network infrastructures …

Dynamic service placement in multi-access edge computing: A systematic literature review

HT Malazi, SR Chaudhry, A Kazmi, A Palade… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of new cloud-based applications such as mixed reality, online gaming,
autonomous driving, and healthcare has introduced infrastructure management challenges …

Multi-access edge computing: A survey

A Filali, A Abouaomar, S Cherkaoui, A Kobbane… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key solution that enables operators to open their
networks to new services and IT ecosystems to leverage edge-cloud benefits in their …

A survey on mobile edge computing infrastructure: Design, resource management, and optimization approaches

LA Haibeh, MCE Yagoub, A Jarray - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging 5G cellular networks are expected to face a dramatic increase in the volume of
mobile traffic and IoT user requests due to the massive growth in mobile devices and the …

Reducing the service function chain backup cost over the edge and cloud by a self-adapting scheme

X Shang, Y Huang, Z Liu, Y Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging virtual network functions (VNFs) bring new opportunities to network services on
the edge within customers' premises. Network services are realized by chained up VNFs …

Toward slicing-enabled multi-access edge computing in 5G

A Ksentini, PA Frangoudis - IEEE Network, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Slicing are two key enablers for 5G,
particularly to empower low-latency services, known as Ultra-Reliable Low Latency …

A survey on the placement of virtual network functions

J Sun, Y Zhang, F Liu, H Wang, X Xu, Y Li - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dependence of traditional network functions (NFs) on special hardware results in high
capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX). Network Function …

Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

Service-oriented MEC applications placement in a federated edge cloud architecture

B Brik, PA Frangoudis, A Ksentini - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is one of the key enablers in 5G, where the objective is
to bring computation very close to the end users. MEC, as defined by ETSI, introduces …

NFV resource allocation: A systematic review and taxonomy of VNF forwarding graph embedding

F Schardong, I Nunes, A Schaeffer-Filho - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The emergence of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is drastically reshaping
the arrangement of network functions. Instead of being built on dedicated hardware (network …