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23.05.2018 Boosting innovation at the edge of the network, with OpenStack based small scale MEC hosts OpenStack Summit, Vancouver GERGELY CSATARI, PEKKA KUURE NOKIA

What is Cloud Edge Computing? (from [1]) Consistent operating paradigm across diverse infrastructures ▪ The ability to perform in a massively distributed environment ▪ The need to deliver network services to customers located at globally ▪ distributed remote locations Application integration, orchestration and service delivery ▪ requirements Hardware limitations and cost constraints ▪ Limited or intermittent network connections ▪ Methods to address applications with strict low latency requirements ▪ Geofencing and requirements for keeping sensitive private data local ▪

Edge cloud use cases Distributed computing for intense, local tasks Real-time delivery of live and on-demand content Apps with unmatched interactivity IoT analytics at the point of capture Robust low latency for critical voice and data

Edge cloud deployments CPE / access point Centralized Distributed data Access Aggregation point host data center center Clusters of base stations and small cells at hotspots AIR Aggregation sites Aggregation sites Radio Cloud Telco Cloud RRHs

Edge cloud deployments CPE / access point Metro Centralized Centralized Distributed data Distributed data Access Access Aggregation point aggregation host data center data center center center Mid, 10-s of servers. Big, 100-s of servers. Mid, 10-s of servers. 1 server Small, 1 – 5 servers. Size of deployment Clusters of base stations and small cells at Mid Low, accessible in Low, accessible in public space Physical High, secured labs Mid hotspots security public space Connectivity Mid quality (eg.: ADSL) High quality Variable (wireless High quality High quality link) Aggregation sites Less than 1 per Radio Cloud Telco Cloud 1 per year 1 per month 1 per day Frequency 1 per week of manned year maintenan ce 10 6 -s 1000s 10s 10s Number of 1 - 5 RRHs instances

What is missing on top of the infrastructure? A single framework to manage applications running in the edge ▪ clouds What exposes the services via standardized API-s ▪ What allows hosting and managing applications at the right location ▪ at the right time What provides an API framework to register, discover and advertise ▪ the applications in local and remote locations

What is missing on top of the infrastructure? Mobile Edge Orchestrator: Overall view of the system, on-boards application packages, triggers application instantiation, relocation and termination. Mobile Edge Platform: Service discovery, traffic steering. Runs internal services, like radio network information service or location information service. Mobile Edge Platform Manager: LCM of the applications. Edge cloud infrastructure.

ETSI MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) 80 members Architecture is Aligned Focuses on what is Designed to be with NFV principles unique about the compliant with Mobile Edge regulatory and legal requirements Designed to enable Exposes real-time Designed for Ultra-low Stimulates innovation the Intelligent and network and context latency flexible deployment of information third-party applications on different MEC platforms

MEC use cases - edge video orchestration

MEC use cases - augmented reality

MEC use cases - local IoT Networks

The first public showcase of safety applications took place at the "Digital A9 Motorway Test Bed“ (November 2015) MEC use cases - connected cars See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPH3OGO2F4&feature=youtu.be

Boosting innovation MEC infrastructure of an operator can be opened to other parties ▪ Management of the applications is possible with standardized API-s ▪ Provides opportunity to change the applications on several locations ▪ in a fast way

Okay, but what about Something is needed to keep the configuration data of the VIM-s in synch. This could be an OpenStack component what is very similar to Kingbird. (?) Edge cloud infrastructure, this can be a set of OpenStack and/or Kubernetes instances.

References [1]: Cloud Edge Computing: Beyond the Data Center

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