Gurushala

A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and
5G communications, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in
mobile computing, from the centralized Mobile Cloud Computing
towards Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). The main feature of
MEC is to push mobile computing, network control and storage
to the network edges (e.g., base stations and access points) so as
to enable computation-intensive and latency-critical applications
at the resource-limited mobile devices. MEC promises dramatic
reduction in latency and mobile energy consumption, tackling
the key challenges for materializing 5G vision. The promised
gains of MEC have motivated extensive efforts in both academia
and industry on developing the technology.