Hours:
20 hours (5 credits)

Room:

Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa - Ground Floor
Aula Riunioni del Piano 6 del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, Pisa
Aula Virtuale il 12/12/2022

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Short Abstract:

The course will cover the main aspects of Edge Computing, from a both system level and practical perspective and with the aim to provide useful tool for engineers, research scientists and application developers. An initial technology overview will provide the description of MEC and related standards and industry associations working in the field, together with various open-source frameworks available. A particular emphasis will be given to the ETSI MEC standard (Multi-access Edge Computing), by mentioning as well other SDOs and the relationship with 3GPP for the definition of 5G systems. In particular, this course will introduce also innovative concepts like MEC Federation, and heterogeneous environments in multi-MNO domains, that are critical in many vertical market domains. A special focus will be given to automotive segment, and related MEC relevance from 5GAA (5G Automotive Association). The federation requirements, defined by GSMA OPG, will be presented together with the latest findings from impacted SDOs (ETSI, 3GPP) and open-source projects (LF). Additionally, an introduction of 5G-Advanced and their impacts on future MEC systems will be provided. A classroom exercitation will complete the course, where students will be asked to build their own application example exploiting MEC and based on the open-source software introduced during the course.

Course Contents in brief:

1. Edge Computing, Fog computing, Cloud computing
2. ETSI MEC Framework and Reference Architecture
3. MEC in 4G, MEC in 5G, MEC in WiFi networks
4. GSMA OPG and OPAG; LF CNCF Camara
5. 5GAA MEC4AUTO and global MEC deployments
6. MEC Federation (aspects from ETSI, 3GPP, GSMA, LF)
7. MCE Phase 3 and 3GPP Release 18
8. MEC Services, MEC Management, MEC Mobility
9. MEC APIs (Radio Network Information API, Location API, BW API, …)
10. Open-Source frameworks: OpenNESS, OpenAPI MEC APIs representations, ETSI Forge, MEC Sandbox, tools and MEC Ecosystem
11. Classroom exercise

Schedule:

Day1

05/12/2022: 11.00-18.00, Aula Riunioni Piano Terra, via Caruso

Topics:

1. Edge Computing, Fog computing, Cloud computing
2. MEC Framework and Reference Architecture [MEC003]
3. General principles for Mobile Edge Service APIs [MEC 009]
4. MEC Platform Application Enablement [MEC011]
5. GSMA OPG and OPAG; LF CNCF Camara
6. Classroom exercise – part 1

Day2

06/12/2022: 9.00-17.00, Aula Riunioni Piano Terra, via Caruso

Topics:

1. MEC in 4G, MEC in 5G, MEC in WiFi networks
2. MEC in NFV environment (MEC-017)
3. MEC support for Network Slicing (MEC-024)
4. MEC Management [MEC010-1][MEC010-2]
5. MEC Application and E2E Mobility (MEC-018, MEC-021)
6. Inter-MEC systems and MEC-Cloud systems coordination (MEC-035)
7. 5GAA MEC4AUTO and global MEC deployments
8. Software Development for MEC
9. MEC-027 – MEC support for Containers
10. Open Network Edge Services Software (OpenNESS)
11. Classroom exercise – part 2

Day3

07/12/2022: 9.00-17.00, Aula Riunioni Piano 6, Largo Lucio Lazzarino

Topics:

1. OpenAPI MEC APIs representations, ETSI Forge
2. MEC Sandbox, tools and MEC Ecosystem
3. MEC-012 – RNI API, MEC-013 – Location API, MEC-028 – WLAN Information API
4. MEC-016 – UE Application Interface, MEC-014 – UE identity API
5. MEC architecture variant for MEC Federation, inter-MEC system communication
6. MEC Federation deployment options
7. MEC Phase 3 and 3GPP Release 18
8. MEC Testing Framework (MEC-025), MEC Conformance Test Suite
9. Performance Assessment, Metrics Best Practices and Guidelines (IEG006)
10. MEC-026 – MEC support for regulatory requirements
11. Application Deployment, Application Walkthrough
12. Classroom exercise – part 3

Day4

12/12/2022: 14:00-17:00, Lezione da remoto

Topics:

1. Vertical segments: focus on automotive (MEC-022 “MEC support for V2X use cases”, and MEC-030 “MEC V2X API”)
2. MEC-015 – Bandwidth management API
3. MEC Federation enablement APIs (MEC 040)
4. MEC toward 6G systems
5. MEC in action: examples and trials
6. OpenNESS and 5G: integration with SimuLTE/5G
7. Classroom exercise – presentation of results