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ITU-T Focus Group IMT-2020 Deliverables 3

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Mobile edge system level management Mobile edge
3rd system level
Party

Mobile Mobile
edge app edge app
Mobile
Mobile Mobile edge
edge app edge app platform Mobile edge
Platform API host level Mobile edge server level

Mobile edge applications management

Virtualisation infrastructure
(e.g. NFVI)

Mobile edge host

3GPP Local External
network network network Networks

Figure 6.1.3-1 – Mobile Edge Computing Framework

The mobile edge system consists of the mobile edge host and the mobile edge management necessary to
run mobile edge applications within an operator network or a subset of an operator network.
The mobile edge host including the following:

– Virtualisation infrastructure that provides compute, storage, and network resources for the
purpose of running mobile edge platform and mobile edge applications.

– Mobile edge platform is the collection of essential functionality required to run mobile edge
applications on a particular virtualisation infrastructure and enable them to provide and consume
mobile edge services. The mobile edge platform can also provide services.
– Mobile edge applications are instantiated on the mobile edge server based on configuration or
requests validated by the mobile edge management.
The mobile edge management comprises the mobile edge system level management and the mobile edge
host level management.
– The mobile edge system level management includes the mobile edge orchestrator as its core
component, which has an overview of the complete mobile edge system.
– The mobile edge host level management comprises the mobile edge platform manager and the
virtualisation infrastructure manager, and handles the management of a particular mobile edge
platform and the applications running on it.

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