The amount of data generated by sensors, actuators, and other devices in the Internet Things (IoT) has substantially increased last few years. IoT are currently processed cloud, mostly through computing resources located distant centers. As a consequence, network bandwidth communication latency become serious bottlenecks. This paper advocates edge for emerging applications that leverage sensor streams to augment interactive applications. First, we classify survey current architectures...

Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments demand long-range wireless communications, especially in urban and metropolitan areas. LoRa is one the most promising technologies this context due to its simplicity flexibility. Indeed, deploying networks dense IoT scenarios must achieve two main goals: efficient communications among a large number devices resilience against dynamic channel conditions demanding environmental settings (e.g., presence many buildings). This work investigates...

Recent advancements in virtualization and software architecture have led to the new paradigm of serverless computing, which allows developers deploy applications as stateless functions without worrying about underlying infrastructure. Accordingly, a platform handles lifecycle, execution scaling actual functions; these need run only when invoked or triggered by an event. Thus, major benefits computing are low operational concerns efficient resource management utilization. Serverless is...

Future wireless networks will provide high-bandwidth, low-latency, and ultra-reliable Internet connectivity to meet the requirements of different applications, ranging from virtual reality Things. To this aim, edge caching, computing, communication (edge-C3) have emerged bring network resources (i.e., bandwidth, storage, computing) closer end users. Edge-C3 improves resource utilization as well quality experience (QoE) Recently, several video-oriented mobile applications (e.g., live content...

Long range (LoRa) is a wireless communication standard specifically targeted for resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. LoRa promising solution smart city applications as it can provide long-range connectivity with low energy consumption. The number LoRa-based networks growing due to its operation in the unlicensed radio bands and ease network deployments. However, scalability such suffers deployed devices increases. In particular, performance drops increased contention...

The main drivers for the mobile core network evolution is to serve future challenges and set way 5G networks with need high capacity low latency. Different technologies such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Software Defined Networking (SDN) are being considered address needs of networks. However, applications Internet Things (IoT), video services others still unveiled will have different requirements, which emphasize dynamic scalability functionality. means efficient resource...

Vehicular applications in smart cities, including assisted and autonomous driving, require complex data processing low-latency communication. An effective approach to address these demands is leverage the edge computing paradigm, wherein storage resources are placed at access points of vehicular network, i.e., roadside units (RSUs). Deploying devices for urban scenarios presents two major challenges. First, it difficult ensure continuous wireless connectivity between vehicles RSUs,...

Edge computing is a promising solution to host artificial intelligence (AI) applications that enable real-time insights on user-generated and device-generated data. This requires edge resources (storage compute) be widely deployed close end devices. Such deployments require large amount of energy run as are typically overprovisioned flexibly meet the needs time-varying user demand with low latency. Moreover, AI rely deep neural network (DNN) models increasingly larger in size support high...

Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) demands realistic rendering of virtual content that seamlessly blends into the physical environment. For this reason, AR headsets and recent smartphones are increasingly equipped with Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras to acquire depth maps a scene in real-time. ToF cheap fast, however, they suffer from several issues affect quality data, ultimately hampering their use for mobile AR. Among them, scale errors objects - appearing much bigger or smaller than what should...

Long Range (LoRa) is a low-power wireless communication technology for long-range connectivity, extensively used in the Internet of Things. Several works literature have analytically characterized performance LoRa networks, with particular focus on scalability and reliability. However, most related models are limited, as they cannot account factors that occur practice, or make strong assumptions how devices deployed network. This article proposes an analytical model describes delivery ratio...

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) consists of implementing network functions as software applications that can run on general-purpose servers. This paper discusses the application NFV to Mobility Management Entity (MME), a control plane entity in Evolved Packet Core (EPC). With convergence cloud computing and mobile networks, conventional architectures elements need be re-designed order fully harness benefits such scalability elasticity. To this end, we design implement distributed MME...

Mobile augmented reality (AR) has the potential to enable immersive, natural interactions between humans and cyber-physical systems. In particular markerless AR, by not relying on fiducial markers or predefined images, provides great convenience flexibility for users. However, unwanted virtual object movement frequently occurs in smartphone AR due inaccurate scene understanding, resulting errors device pose tracking. We examine factors which may affect stability, design experiments measure...

Edge computing brings and storage resources close to end-users support new applications services that require low network latency. It is currently used in a wide range of industries, from industrial automation augmented reality, smart cities connected vehicles, where latency, data privacy, real-time processing are critical requirements. The latency accessing edge must be consistently below threshold few tens milliseconds maintain an acceptable experience for end-users. However, the between...

The energy consumption of mobile networks is already substantial nowadays, and only expected to further increase with the roll-out 5G. Base stations are key elements in this context: reducing their paramount importance for network operators, not lower operating costs, but also meet sustainable development goals. Today's base typically over-provisioned, i.e., they comprise multiple cells peak load a region. Therefore, savings possible by switching off that under-utilized. This article...

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Edge computing brings and storage resources close to end-users support new applications services that require low network latency. Examples of such include augmented reality, connected cars, gaming video analytics. The latency accessing must be consistently below a threshold few tens milliseconds maintain an acceptable experience for end users. However, the between users can vary considerably depending on load mode wireless access. An application provider able guarantee requests are served...

Mobile devices are expected to be always connected, and this implies that the mobile network is able quickly identify address faults impact service (for example, due power outages). In article, we present our approach for automatically detecting mass outages. Our solution decreases number of created trouble tickets in two networks by 4.7% 9.3%.