A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing Infrastructure: Design, Resource Management, and Optimization Approaches

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 emergence of new compute-intensive applications. Running high-intensive compute applications on resource-constrained mobile...

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Published in:IEEE access 2022, Vol.10, p.27591-27610
Main Authors: Haibeh, Lina A., Yagoub, Mustapha C. E., Jarray, Abdallah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
5G mobile communication
Cellular communication
Cloud computing
Constraints
Design optimization
Edge computing
Electronic devices
Infrastructure
MEC infrastructure design and dimensioning
Mobile computing
Mobile edge computing
mobile network operator
NFV
optimization approaches
proactive
Quality of service
Real-time systems
Resource management
Scientific papers
Servers
Virtualization
VNF autoscaling
VNF placement
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Summary: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 emergence of new compute-intensive applications. Running high-intensive compute applications on resource-constrained mobile devices has recently become a major concern, given the constraints of finite computation and limited storage capacities. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently become the key technology to overcome these issues by providing cloud computing capabilities and placing IT infrastructures at the mobile network edge. In this survey, we present a list of relevant research papers for the MEC infrastructure implementation phases, including (1) MEC infrastructure designing and dimensioning, (2) MEC infrastructure virtualization using Network Function Virtualization (NFV) concept, and the use of virtualized service placement and auto-scaling methods to deploy an agile system framework, (3) MEC resource management frameworks, and (4) approaches used to optimize the MEC resources on the physical infrastructure. The main focus of this survey is to determine the required aspects to implement an auto-scaled and proactive MEC-NFV infrastructure to support a dynamic and heterogenous mobile users' demand at mobile network operators.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3152787