Testbed for Multi-access Edge Computing V2X applications prototyping and evaluation ("Regular paper")

Overview & Synopsis

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is one of the key enablers behind intelligent transportation systems (ITS) futuristic applications. To address and evaluate applications that aimed at offering a service in this context, researchers and developers need a prototyping tool to abstract this system aspects. However, currently available tools do not model this environment nor give the possibility of running under development MEC services for evaluation purposes. In this paper, we propose a MEC vehicular application testbed, combining virtual technologies and network emulation tools. The goal is to help through the process of evaluating proposed solutions and applications destined to offer MEC ITS services.