Multi-Access Edge Computing in Action

This book provides a complete and strategic overview of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC). It covers network and technology aspects, describes the market scenarios from the different stakeholders' point of view, and analyzes deployment aspects and actions to engage the ecosystem. MEC exists in and supports a highly complex "5G world" in which technologists and non-technology decision makers must act in concert and do so within a large interconnected ecosystem of which MEC is just one, albeit an important, part. Divided into three sections, with several chapters in each, the book addresses these three key aspects: technology, markets, and ecosystems.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 MEC AND THE NETWORK; CHAPTER 1 FROM CLOUD COMPUTING TO MULTI -ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING; 1.1 To Edge or Not to Edge; 1.2 The Cloud Part of MEC; 1.3 The Edge Part of MEC; 1.4 The Access Part of MEC; 1.4.1 Real-Time Data Processing; 1.4.2 SLAs and Regulatory Requirements and Critical Infrastructure; 1.4.3 Network Function Virtualization; 1.4.4 Not Your Brother's IT Cloud; 1.5 Who Needs Standards Anyway?; 1.6 All We Need Is Open Source?; 1.7 Looking Ahead ... in More Ways than One; Notes

CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCING MEC : EDGE COMPUTING IN THE NETWORK2.1 The ME Host: Where the Magic Happens; 2.2 The Magician's Toolbox: MEC Management; 2.3 ETSI MEC and ETSI NFV; 2.4 MEC Use Cases and Service Scenarios; 2.4.1 Intelligent Video Acceleration; 2.4.2 Video Stream Analysis; 2.4.3 Augmented Reality; 2.4.4 Assistance for Intensive Computation; 2.4.5 MEC in the Enterprise Setting; 2.4.6 Connected Vehicles; 2.4.7 IoT Gateway; 2.4.7.1 Public Edge Clouds; 2.4.7.2 Support of Operator Services; CHAPTER 3 THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF MEC; 3.1 The Infrastructure Dimension

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