Hours:
20 hours (5 credits)

Room:
Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa – Ground Floor

Short Abstract:
The course will cover the main aspects of Edge Computing, from the description of the technology to the standards and industry associations working in the field. 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. Short examples of “MEC in action” from Industry Groups, associations and involved companies will complete the course.

Course Contents in brief:

• Edge Computing, Fog computing, Cloud computing
• ETSI MEC Framework and Reference Architecture
• General principles for Mobile Edge Service APIs
• MEC APIs (Radio Network Information API, Location API, BW API, …)
• MEC Mobility aspects
• Performance Assessment, Metrics, Best Practices and Guidelines
• Mobile Edge Management
• Edge Computing and 5G
• MEC in action: examples and trials

Schedule:

Day 1 - Monday March 11th, 2019
14.00 – 15.45 Overview on Cloud computing, Edge Computing, Fog computing
15.45 – 16.00 break
16.00 – 17.00 MEC Framework and Reference Architecture
17.00 – 17.30 Presentation of the PhD Exercise work

Day 2 - Tuesday March 12th, 2019
9.15 – 9.30 Wrap-up of day1
9.30 – 10.00 MEC Framework and Reference Architecture (cntd)
10.00 – 10.30 General principles for Mobile Edge Service APIs
10.30 – 10.45 break
10.45 – 12.00 Mobile Edge Platform Application Enablement
12.00 – 13.00 Mobile Edge Management
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 16.00 Mobile Edge Management
16.00 – 16.15 break
16.15 – 17.30 MEC PoCs (case study: RAVEN PoC)

Day 3 - Wednesday March 13th, 2019
9.15 – 9.30 Wrap-up of day2
9.30 – 10.30 MEC in 5G, MEC in NFV
10.30 – 10.45 break
10.45 – 12.00 MEC in 5G, MEC in NFV (cntd)
12.00 – 13.00 MEC support for V2X use cases
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 16.00 MEC APIs (RNI, Location, BW mgmt, V2X, … )
16.00 – 16.15 break
16.15 – 17.30 MEC Hackathons, OpenAPI

Day 4 - Thursday March 14th, 2019
9.15 – 9.30 Wrap-up of day3
9.30 – 10.30 Metrics Best Practices and Guidelines, MEC Testing Framework
10.30 – 10.45 break
10.45 – 12.30 Exercise Class
12.30 – 13.00 Q&A