Publication: Latency and Availability Driven VNF Placement in a MEC-NFV Environment
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ISSN: 2576-6813
ISBN: 978-1-5386-4727-1 (Electronic)
ISBN: 978-1-5386-6976-1 (USB)
ISBN: 978-1-5386-4728-8 (PoD)
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2019-02-21
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Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is gaining momentum as it is considered as one of the enablers of 5G ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (uRLLC) services. MEC deploys computation resources close to the end user, enabling to reduce drastically the end-to-end latency. ETSI has recently leveraged the MEC architecture to run all MEC entities, including MEC applications, as Virtual Network Functions (VNF) in a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environment. This evolution allows taking advantage of the mature architecture and the enabling tools of NFV, including the potential to apply a variety of service-tailored function placement algorithms. However, the latter need to be carefully designed in case of MEC applications such as uRLLC, where service access latency is critical. In this paper, we propose a novel placement scheme applicable to a MEC in NFV environment. In particular, we propose a formulation of the problem of VNF placement tailored to uRLLC as an optimization problem of two conflicting objectives, namely minimizing access latency and maximizing service availability. To deal with the complexity of the problem, we propose a Genetic Algorithm to solve it, which we compare with a CPLEX implementation of our model. Our numerical results show that our heuristic algorithm runs efficiently and produces solutions that approximate well the optimal, reducing latency and providing a highly-available service.
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Cloud computing, Computer architecture, Reliability, 5G mobile communication, Network function virtualization, Servers, Edge computing
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Yala, L., Frangoudis, P.A. y Ksentini, A. (2018). Latency and Availability Driven VNF Placement in a MEC-NFV Environment. In: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-7.