Educational 5G Edge Computing: Framework and Experimental Study

Benefiting from the large-scale commercial use of 5G, smart campuses have attracted increasing research attention in recent years and are expected to revolutionize traditional campus activities. However, there some obstacles that hinder practical deployment MEC (multi-access edge computing). First, information infrastructures on cannot support latency-sensitive computing-intensive applications, such as AR/VR, live interactive lectures digital twin experiments. In addition, mixture old new isolated data islands heterogeneous equipment management introduce more challenges. Moreover, existing framework proposed by ETSI 3GPP meet specific requirements campuses, e.g., educational security, real-time connections, others. this paper, we propose a 5G-based architecture for education infrastructure; dedicated cloud eMEC (educational multi-access computing) is defined. It consists UGW (universal access gateway) an eMEP computing platform), making it possible satisfy education-specific long-term evolution. Furthermore, implement conduct real-world field tests university campus. Based tests, also measurement study unveil spatial-temporal characteristics mobile users discuss exploiting them better network performance. The experimental results show system achieves satisfactory performance terms both throughput latency.