A survey on virtualization techniques in Mobile edge computing

Abstract

In the present scenario, the field of Information Technology(IT) is moving from physical storage to cloud storage as "cloud" providers deliver on-demand resources over the Internet. MEC's key idea is to provide an IT infrastructure system and cloud computing services at the mobile network's edge, within the RAN and close to mobile users. MEC expands the idea of cloud computing by taking the benefits of the cloud closer to consumers in the form of a network edge, resulting in less latency from end to end. It is a decentralized computing infrastructure where some applications use signal processing, storage, control and computing are distributed between the data source and the cloud in the most effective and logical way. Virtualization is the main cloud infrastructure technology used in MEC. Virtualization is accomplished by virtualizing the software or hardware resource layer. Virtualization in MEC can be done by the hypervisor, Virtual machine, Docker Container or by Kubernetes. Hypervisors and VMs are the technologies used earlier. Docker is the technology we use nowadays, and Kubernetes is the future of Virtualization. In the face of large-scale and highly scalable needs, the cloud computing infrastructure is hard to fulfil in a short time, and the conventional virtual machine-based cloud host absorbs a lot of device resources on its own hence in this paper, we will address Docker as new container technology and introduce you to how this technology has solved previous problems in Virtualization, including the creation and deployment of large applications. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed survey of related MEC research and technological developments where specifically relevant research and future directions are illustrated.