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2021 | Book

Principles of Edge Computing, Fog and Cloud Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

Multi-access Edge Computing: Software Development at the Network Edge

Author: Dario Sabella

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Book Series : Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

The textbook covers the main aspects of Edge Computing, from a thorough look at the technology to the standards and industry associations working in the field. The book is conceived as a textbook for graduate students but also functions as a working guide for developers, engineers, and researchers. The book aims not only at providing a comprehensive technology and standard reference overview for students, but also useful research insights and practical exercises for edge software developers and investigators in the area (and for students looking to apply their skills). A particular emphasis is given Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) as defined in European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), in relationship with other standard organizations like 3GPP, thus in alignment with the recent industry efforts to produce harmonized standards for edge computing leveraging both ETSI ISG MEC and 3GPP specifications. Practical examples of Edge Computing implementation from industry groups, associations, companies and edge developers, complete the book and make it useful for students entering the field. The book includes exercises, examples, and quizzes throughout.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Edge Computing Overview

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Principles of Edge Computing, Fog and Cloud Computing
Abstract
In this chapter, we will describe the principles of edge computing.
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Chapter 2. MEC: Standards and Industry Associations Around Edge Computing
Abstract
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Edge Computing Standards

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Chapter 3. MEC Standards on Edge Platforms
Abstract
The present chapter describes the work done in European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI).
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Chapter 4. MEC Standards on Edge Services
Abstract
In the previous chapter, we have described the MEC platform, and the procedures related to the communication with MEC applications. It was also explained (as anticipated already in Chap. 1) that a MEC application can both consume services available in the MEC system and also produce services, which are made available by the MEC platform to other applications.
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Chapter 5. MEC Service APIs in Action
Abstract
This chapter will describe more in detail few selected MEC services. The specific APIs usage will be coupled also with concrete use cases of interest for MEC (e.g. from automotive market segment), and in some case also with practical examples and APIs implementations.
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Edge Computing Deployments

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Chapter 6. MEC in Virtualized Environments
Abstract
The present chapter will describe some principles of virtualization, with particular reference to the work done by ETSI in the ISG NFV (Network Function Virtualization), as the basis for the MEC deployment in virtualized environments.
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Chapter 7. Edge Computing in 5G Networks
Abstract
We have already acknowledged multiple times in this book that a great advantage of MEC technology is to access agnostic, as the multi-access edge computing architecture (and the related ETSI MEC standard) doesn’t depend on the specific underlying network access technology.
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Chapter 8. MEC Federation and Mobility Aspects
Abstract
In the previous chapters, we discussed MEC in virtualized environments (Chap. 6) and in 5G systems (Chap. 7). In order to complete this third part of the book, it’s now worth talking about MEC Federation.
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Edge Computing Software Development

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Chapter 9. Software Development for Edge Computing
Abstract
In Part 2 of this book we have described the MEC standard, introducing an edge architecture between client and server applications.
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Chapter 10. MEC in Action: Performance, Testing and Ecosystem Activities
Abstract
We finally arrived at the end of this book. This last chapter is very important as it provides an overview of the many ongoing activities devoted to put MEC in the actual market, e.g. from performance assessment, to conformance testing, proof-of-concepts, hackathons and deployment trials.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Multi-access Edge Computing: Software Development at the Network Edge
Author
Dario Sabella
Copyright Year
2021
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-79618-1
Print ISBN
978-3-030-79617-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79618-1