Network and Service Providers are exploring different exploitation strategies for the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), mainly motivated by the opportunities for saving costs and generating new revenues (e.g., through new business models). On the other hand, the overall standardization picture is still very fragmented, delaying or even jeopardizing the real exploitation of MEC; furthermore, current standardization efforts are mainly envisioning a traditional monolithic architecture, with many technological partners but a single administrative domain. This paper argues that a clear separation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS levels for MEC, together with standardized interfaces, will help accelerating the development of new business roles (e.g., IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers) and models, possibly replacing the current competition-oriented practices in the telco domain with new forms of cooperation, which are already starting to appear in the IT sector. In this direction, this paper proposes a disaggregated MEC architecture and presents two use cases that show how different categories of resources and services could be provided by infrastructure, platform and software providers in an evolutionary scenario towards 5G.

A Disaggregated MEC Architecture Enabling Open Services and Novel Business Models / Castellano, Gabriele; Manzalini, Antonio; Risso, FULVIO GIOVANNI OTTAVIO. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 178-182. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019) tenutosi a Paris (France) nel June 2019) [10.1109/NETSOFT.2019.8806630].

A Disaggregated MEC Architecture Enabling Open Services and Novel Business Models

Gabriele Castellano;Fulvio Risso
2019

Abstract

Network and Service Providers are exploring different exploitation strategies for the Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), mainly motivated by the opportunities for saving costs and generating new revenues (e.g., through new business models). On the other hand, the overall standardization picture is still very fragmented, delaying or even jeopardizing the real exploitation of MEC; furthermore, current standardization efforts are mainly envisioning a traditional monolithic architecture, with many technological partners but a single administrative domain. This paper argues that a clear separation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS levels for MEC, together with standardized interfaces, will help accelerating the development of new business roles (e.g., IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers) and models, possibly replacing the current competition-oriented practices in the telco domain with new forms of cooperation, which are already starting to appear in the IT sector. In this direction, this paper proposes a disaggregated MEC architecture and presents two use cases that show how different categories of resources and services could be provided by infrastructure, platform and software providers in an evolutionary scenario towards 5G.
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