ETD

• 5G/6G networks
• etsi mec
• mobile mec host
• network mobility
• simu5G

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a framework standardized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that can run applications on behalf of end users in a cloud-like environment in proximity to them. Beyond-5G/6G applications requiring extremely low latency – such as the coordination of a swarm of drones or a platoon of vehicles – may experience performance degradation when end users move far away from their serving MEC host, triggering the migration of the MEC application to a different MEC host. Recent studies have begun to explore the potential for augmenting computational resources not only with stationary servers situated at the edge of the network but also with mobile devices. The present thesis addresses the question of mobility issues by investigating the deployment of an ETSI MEC-compliant mobile host and the application migration triggered when the mobile MEC host itself moves away. The study examines the architectural solutions to integrate this mobile node within a complete ETSI MEC environment and to assess its performance via system-level simulation.