Third Party Session Control at the Network Edge

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) brings the cloud services at the network edge. It is efficient solution for use cases requiring low latency such as mission-critical communications and real-time Internet of Things applications. Furthermore, third-party session control is essential for many of these use cases. The paper presents an approach to design a new mobile edge service which enables third-party applications to place a session with required quality of service, to manipulate session participants and to terminate the session. The service design follows Representational State Transfer architectural style. The proposed service is described by service data model, application programming interfaces and state models. Service latency is evaluated by emulation.

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