Set-top box virtualization as a personal cloud server for 5G users
Gabriele Baldoni, Christian Grasso, Alfio Lombardo, Corrado Rametta, Andrea Scala, Silvia Sottile · 2018
In the immediate future, the new networking paradigms SDN, NFV and MEC, together with the incoming 5G mobile network generation, will allow users to receive very- interactive high-quality services from the Telco Operators, thanks to the characteristic of virtualizing network and application functions, and running them very close to the users. In this context, this paper proposes a prototype of a virtual Set-Top Box (STB), the virtualization of a smart device (SD) that is running on the edge of the network, and is able to follow the user when he is in mobility.