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PON Virtualisation with EAST-WEST Communications for Low-Latency Converged Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)

Networking and Internet Architecture 2020-04-15 v1
Authors: Sandip Das , Marco Ruffini
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Abstract

We propose a virtual-PON based Mobile Fronthaul (MFH) architecture that allows direct communications between edge points (enabling EAST-WEST communication). Dynamic slicing improves service multiplexing while supporting ultra-low latency under 100μ\mus between cells and MEC nodes.

Keywords

network protocol

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.06138,
  title  = {PON Virtualisation with EAST-WEST Communications for Low-Latency Converged Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)},
  author = {Sandip Das and Marco Ruffini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06138},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

OFC 2020, 3 pages, 5 Figures

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