5G Deployment Considerations to Enable Consumer Innovation
Jeffrey Collins, Suku Nair, Krish Prabhu · 2021
To realize the benefits of low latency with 5G, edge data centers will need to be deployed on a large scale which will in turn increase deployment and operational cost. Network Functions (NF)s and new applications such as those under development for automotive, healthcare or Internet of Things (IoT) must execute as close to the end users as possible to achieve the optimal low latency goals required by different use cases. This paper will describe the challenges, define the metrics, and capabilities with 5G and will propose mechanisms to optimize resource pooling and site selection for collection of distributed datacenters.