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Hauptverfasser: Bolettieri, Simone, Bui, Dinh Thai, Bruno, Raffaele
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10860
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author Bolettieri, Simone
Bui, Dinh Thai
Bruno, Raffaele
author_facet Bolettieri, Simone
Bui, Dinh Thai
Bruno, Raffaele
contents Network slicing is one of the most critical 5G pillars. It allows for sharing a 5G infrastructure among different tenants leading to improved service customisation and increased operators' revenues. Concurrently, introducing the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) into 5G to support time-critical applications raises the need to integrate this distributed computing infrastructure to the 5G network slicing framework. Indeed, end-to-end latency guarantees require the end-to-end management of slice resources. For this purpose, after discussing the main gaps in the state-of-the-art with regards to such an objective, we propose a novel slicing architecture that enables the management and orchestration of slice segments that span over all the domains of an end-to-end application service, including the MEC. We also show how this general management architecture can be instantiated into a multi-tenant MEC infrastructure. A preliminary implementation of the proposed architecture focusing on the MEC domain is also provided, together with performance tests to validate the feasibility and efficacy of our design approach.
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spellingShingle Towards End-to-End Application Slicing in Multi-access Edge Computing systems: Architecture Discussion and Proof-of-Concept
Bolettieri, Simone
Bui, Dinh Thai
Bruno, Raffaele
Networking and Internet Architecture
Network slicing is one of the most critical 5G pillars. It allows for sharing a 5G infrastructure among different tenants leading to improved service customisation and increased operators' revenues. Concurrently, introducing the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) into 5G to support time-critical applications raises the need to integrate this distributed computing infrastructure to the 5G network slicing framework. Indeed, end-to-end latency guarantees require the end-to-end management of slice resources. For this purpose, after discussing the main gaps in the state-of-the-art with regards to such an objective, we propose a novel slicing architecture that enables the management and orchestration of slice segments that span over all the domains of an end-to-end application service, including the MEC. We also show how this general management architecture can be instantiated into a multi-tenant MEC infrastructure. A preliminary implementation of the proposed architecture focusing on the MEC domain is also provided, together with performance tests to validate the feasibility and efficacy of our design approach.
title Towards End-to-End Application Slicing in Multi-access Edge Computing systems: Architecture Discussion and Proof-of-Concept
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10860