Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks

With the widespread use of smart mobile devices, the exponential growth of mobile Internet traffic and newly emerging services, such as Internet of Things, virtual reality/augmented reality, and serious games, the network performance requirements for delay and bandwidth are increasing. The inherent...

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Main Authors: Jing Liu, Guochu Shou, Yaqiong Liu, Yihong Hu, Zhigang Guo
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8355486/
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Guochu Shou
Yaqiong Liu
Yihong Hu
Zhigang Guo
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Guochu Shou
Yaqiong Liu
Yihong Hu
Zhigang Guo
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description With the widespread use of smart mobile devices, the exponential growth of mobile Internet traffic and newly emerging services, such as Internet of Things, virtual reality/augmented reality, and serious games, the network performance requirements for delay and bandwidth are increasing. The inherent long-distance propagation and possible network congestion of mobile cloud computing may lead to excessive latency, which cannot satisfy the new delay-sensitive mobile applications. The proximity of edge computing provides the possibility of low-latency access and raises increasing interest from non-mobile operators; therefore, edge computing faces a variety of access network technologies, including wired (fixed) and wireless (mobile) access. In this paper, we propose an integrated heterogeneous networking scheme for multi-access edge computing and fiber-wireless access networks that uses network virtualization to achieve the dynamic orchestration of the network, storage, and computing resources to meet diverse application demands. The global view and centralized control of the entire network and the unified scheduling of the resources in the scheme anticipate the convergence of various types of access networks and the edge cloud. The multipath transmission of the service flows is further combined as an instance of integrated edge cloud networking. An experimental testbed is established in the laboratory, and the performance of the multi-access edge computing and networking is evaluated to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the scheme. The results demonstrate that the scheme can effectively improve the network performance.
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spelling doaj.art-241722feb29744ad9fff1f4810182c782022-12-21T22:24:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016302693027910.1109/ACCESS.2018.28336198355486Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access NetworksJing Liu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9802-6318Guochu Shou1Yaqiong Liu2Yihong Hu3Zhigang Guo4Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaWith the widespread use of smart mobile devices, the exponential growth of mobile Internet traffic and newly emerging services, such as Internet of Things, virtual reality/augmented reality, and serious games, the network performance requirements for delay and bandwidth are increasing. The inherent long-distance propagation and possible network congestion of mobile cloud computing may lead to excessive latency, which cannot satisfy the new delay-sensitive mobile applications. The proximity of edge computing provides the possibility of low-latency access and raises increasing interest from non-mobile operators; therefore, edge computing faces a variety of access network technologies, including wired (fixed) and wireless (mobile) access. In this paper, we propose an integrated heterogeneous networking scheme for multi-access edge computing and fiber-wireless access networks that uses network virtualization to achieve the dynamic orchestration of the network, storage, and computing resources to meet diverse application demands. The global view and centralized control of the entire network and the unified scheduling of the resources in the scheme anticipate the convergence of various types of access networks and the edge cloud. The multipath transmission of the service flows is further combined as an instance of integrated edge cloud networking. An experimental testbed is established in the laboratory, and the performance of the multi-access edge computing and networking is evaluated to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the scheme. The results demonstrate that the scheme can effectively improve the network performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8355486/Fiber-wireless access networksmulti-access edge computingnetwork convergenceNFVSDN
spellingShingle Jing Liu
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Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
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Fiber-wireless access networks
multi-access edge computing
network convergence
NFV
SDN
title Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
title_full Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
title_fullStr Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
title_full_unstemmed Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
title_short Performance Evaluation of Integrated Multi-Access Edge Computing and Fiber-Wireless Access Networks
title_sort performance evaluation of integrated multi access edge computing and fiber wireless access networks
topic Fiber-wireless access networks
multi-access edge computing
network convergence
NFV
SDN
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8355486/
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