Grzegorz Panek
supervisor: Halina Tarasiuk, DSc, PhD
The 5G network promise is to provide connectivity to end users with high throughput and low latency services. We can expect in the near future many applications that will require very low latency and high throughput. With such an exceptional evolution of demands, the network infrastructure struggles to accommodate the exponentially increasing load. In this context the concepts of cloud-native infrastructure and Multi-access Edge Computing are gaining momentum and providing new innovative techniques and approaches to tackle those challenges. In particular, Multi-access Edge Computing aims to bring computation workloads and network intelligence as close as possible to the end user, i.e. to the Edge, while ensuring resource efficiency and maintaining service high performance and low latencies. The Application Function (AF), one of the main MEC concepts, can be viewed as the backend that will process the heavy workloads of the end user at the edge. Since the UE (user equipment/end user) mobility supported by the underlying network can result in UE moving to a network entity associated with a different MEC host from the current serving MEC host. Computation of user workload in a new MEC Host carries needs of offloading application deployed in MEC to a new MEC instance in order to maintain handling users’ requests. The meaning of the application/service offloading is to migrate applications across multiple edges hosts to guarantee target QoS parameters.