Enabling Real-Time Context-Aware Collaboration through 5G and Mobile Edge Computing

Nunna, Swaroop; Kousaridas, Apostolos; Ibrahim, Mohamed; Dillinger, Markus; Thuemmler, Christoph; Feussner, Hubertus; Schneider, Armin

Abstract

Creating context-aware ad hoc collaborative systems
remains to be one of the primary hurdles hampering the ubiquitous
deployment of IT and communication services. Especially
under mission-critical scenarios, these services must often adhere
to strict timing deadlines. We believe empowering such realtime
collaboration systems requires context-aware application
platforms working in conjunction with ultra-low latency data
transmissions. In this paper, we make a strong case that this
could be accomplished by combining the novel communication
architectures being proposed for 5G with the principles of Mobile
Edge Computing (MEC). We show that combining 5G with MEC
would enable inter- and intra-domain use cases that are otherwise
not feasible.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations
• Start Date: Apr 13, 2015
• End Date: Apr 15, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jul 8, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Deposit Date: May 12, 2017
• Journal: IEEE
• Print ISSN: 0018-9219
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations.
• ISBN: 9781479988280
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2015.155
• Keywords: 5G, mobile edge computing, real time systems,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/835364