Results of the MECinFire experiment in Fed4FIRE+ EU project

Edge resources are planned to be extensively used in the 5G network deployments, as they are able to meet stiff latency demands required from services being developed around this ecosystem (e.g. AR/VR, e-Health, Industry 4.0, etc.), by providing computational capabilities where such services can be executed close to the network edge.

At the same time, 5G networks redefine the operation of traditional base station units, by disaggregating them and operating part of them in the Cloud, thus creating Cloud-RANs. These Cloud-RANs can also be heterogeneous, allowing users to access the network through multiple wireless technologies (e.g. dual access through 5G-NR and LTE). In this project, we blend the novel disaggregated and heterogeneous base station architecture with the MEC concept, and develop and experiment with the deployment of the edge computing services even closer to the network edge.