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An analytical framework for URLLC in hybrid MEC environments

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The conventional mobile architecture is unlikely to cope with Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) constraints, being a major cause for its fundamentals to remain elusive. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) emerge as complementary solutions, offering fine-grained on-demand distributed resources closer to the User Equipment (UE). This work proposes a multipurpose analytical framework that evaluates a hybrid virtual MEC environment that combines VMs and Containers strengths to concomitantly meet URLLC constraints and cloud-like Virtual Network Functions (VNF) elasticity.

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This work was supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Project No. 433142/2018-9, the CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship (Grant No. 312831/2020-0) and the Pernambuco Research Foundation (FACEPE) (Grant No. IBPG-0096-1.03/16).

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    Marcos Falcao, Caio Bruno Souza, Andson Balieiro & Kelvin Dias

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Falcao, M., Souza, C.B., Balieiro, A. et al. An analytical framework for URLLC in hybrid MEC environments. J Supercomput 78, 2245–2264 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-021-03945-8

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