Smart Edge Systems for 5G

Edge systems can be thought of as micro-cloud infrastructures that serve devices in proximity. Devices with insufficient computational capacities (AR/VR glasses, mobile gadgets, smartphones depending on the application) can augment their compute power using these edge servers. MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) is the official term in 5G standards for Edge Computing and it is a crucial component of the overall 5G communication systems.

In this project, contributions to the existing EdgeCloudSim simulator (https://github.com/CagataySonmez/EdgeCloudSim) will be done so that 5G features can be used in the simulation experiments which includes mobile devices, edge servers and cloud servers. EdgeCloudSim is developed in CMPE-NETLAB, therefore students working on this project will have the chance to be in close contact with EdgeCloudSim experts.

Project plan can be crudely be described in three phases:

Phase I: Get acquainted with the simulator environment, design & run simple experiments. Req. Engineering for 5G features.

Phase II: Adding 5G features to the simulator. Run test experiments.

Phase III: Adding Data Analytics and AI/ML functionality to certain components. Designing & running performance tests to show the effect of the new features.