apmec

This project aims at building an automated provisioning framework for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) based on OpenStack platform.

Current features of APMEC are to:

• orchestrate the MEC services

• leverage MANO's API to allow the reuse of NF network services (currently use OpenStack Tacker - NFV Orchestration service) for MEC services

• support multi-MANO features that offer the scalability and improve resource utilization of MEC services.

• manage the life-cycle of MEC applications (creation, update, deletion)

• monitor MEC applications

• scale in/out MEC applications

On-going features:

• fast live migration in order to support mobility in MEC

• state management for the stateful MEC applications

• acceleration technologies like DPDK, VPP, FPGA,...

• container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes

Acronym:

MEP: MEC Platform

MESO: MEC Service Orchestrator

MES: MEC service

MEO: MEC Orchestrator

MEM: MEC Manager

MEA: MEC Application

MEAD: MEA Descriptor

Authors:

Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks,

Technical University of Dresden, Germany.