5G Mobile Core Network: Design, Deployment, Automation, and Testing Strategies

© Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty 2021

R. S. Shetty5G Mobile Core Network https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6473-7_2

2. Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G

Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty¹  

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is instrumental in meeting the challenging demands for 5G, especially for the 5QI needs from ultra-reliable low-latency communication (uRLLC).

The edge computing provides the possibility of hosting the application as well as the user plane for such applications that require low latency closer to the user at the edge from the traditional centralized data center.

MEC is an offering that can be leveraged not just by applications that have low latency requirements like autonomous vehicles, V2V, and V2X applications ...