A Multi-Protocol MEC-based Approach to Deploy and Consume IoT Services
Davide Borsatti, Lorenzo Bassi, Walter Cerroni, Gianluca Davoli, Carla Raffaelli · 2022
Edge computing is becoming one of the key areas for both academia and industry, opening up new opportunities and posing new challenges. In particular, IoT is one of the fields that could greatly benefit from the adoption of this paradigm. Actually, different solutions and protocols can be adopted for IoT data retrieval and processing, thus creating complex heterogeneous environments. We propose a practical demonstration of how a flexible Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) approach could be used in multi-protocol scenarios to simplify the deployment and consumption of IoT services, by means of proper extensions to the service definition in the ETSI standard MEC interface.