doi.org
October 2018 • Carlos Andrés Ramiro, Claudio Fiandrino, Alejandro Blanco, Pablo Jiménez Mateo, Norbert Ludant, Joerg Widmer
<p>To support next generation services, 5G mobile network architectures are increasingly adopting emerging technlogies like software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). Core and radio access functionalities are virtualized and executed in edge data centers, in accordance with the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) principle. While testbeds are an essential research tool for experimental evaluation in such environments, the landscape of data center and mobile network testbeds is…