Abstract

SOARES, Micael; PINTO, Pedro  and  MAMEDE, Jorge. MEC vs MCC: performance analysis of interactive and real-time applications. RISTI [online]. 2020, n.37, pp.116-131. ISSN 1646-9895.  https://doi.org/10.17013/risti.37.116-131.

Telecommunication networks evolution is driving the development of new applications for mobile devices. Some of these applications are resource-intensive and push computational and energy demands of mobile devices beyond the mobile hardware capabilities. In this context, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) architecture emerges as a solution for offloading mobile devices that allows to execute these applications in cloud datacenters thus reducing the processing demand in mobile devices. However, more demanding applications, e.g. interactive and real-time applications, are sensitive to processing and communications delay. For these applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) can be used as an intermediary technology, providing computing and storage resources in the network edge. This paper presents a study carried out to evaluate the performance of MEC and MCC architectures when executing two applications, Fluid and FaceSwap, representative of real time and computing intensive applications. A set of scenarios were designed to quantify the performance of these architectures in different settings.

Keywords : Mobile; Edge; Cloud; Computing.

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