Programmable Chip Based High Performance MEC Router for Ultra-Low Latency and High Bandwidth Services in Distributed Computing Environment

SeokHwan KONG  Saikia DIPJYOTI  JaiYong LEE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E103-D    No.12    pp.2525-2527
Publication Date: 2020/12/01
Publicized: 2020/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2020PAL0001
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Parallel, Distributed, and Reconfigurable Computing, and Networking)
Category: Computer System
Keyword: 
MEC,  ULL,  VNF,  SDN,  

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Summary: 
With the spread of smart cities through 5G and the development of IoT devices, the number of services requiring firm assurance of high capacity and ultra-low delay quality in various forms is increasing. However, continuous growth of large data makes it difficult for a centralized cloud to ensure quality of service. For this, a variety of distributed application architecture researches, such as MEC (Mobile|Mutli-access Edge Computing), are in progress. However, vendor-dependent MEC technology based on VNF (Virtual Network Function) has performance and scalability issues when deploying a variety of 5G-based services. This paper proposes PRISM-MECR, an SDN (Software Defined Network) based hardware accelerated MEC router using P4[3] programmable chip, to improve forwarding performance while minimizing load of host CPU cores in charge of forwarding among MEC technologies.