ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the scenario of fifth generation (5G) networks to support Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services. It presents the architecture, challenges and key technologies of complementarily integrating mobile edge computing with 5G-enabled IoT services. Mobile edge computing (MEC), which originated from a computing service platform, is a new network architecture designed to reduce the distance between the end users and computing resources, enabling unprecedented benefits for data processing, service provisioning and resource optimization. The resources in MEC could be dynamically changed and optimized based on the associated services and applications. The system-level management is mainly responsible for policy design, upper-level service analysis and guiding the mobile edge host to provide MEC services. Host-level management software is in charge of the management and operation of mobile edge platform and virtualized infrastructure, including the MEC platform manager and the virtualization infrastructure manager.
