An analysis of multicast inefficiencies in multi-tenant MEC infrastructures for 5G networks

Steve Eager; Antonio Matencio-Escolar; Jose M. Alcaraz Calero

doi:10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145140

An analysis of multicast inefficiencies in multi-tenant MEC infrastructures for 5G networks

Steve Eager
, Antonio Matencio-Escolar
, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero

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Communication and data networks require the efficient and timely delivery of packets with little or negligible latency in the transmission. This is especially important of 5G mobile networks where mission critical communications and applications are reliant on fast and efficient communications. It has long been understood that using multicasting, as a method of sending multiple packets simultaneously, over a medium will improve the efficiency of a communication. This is achieved by only transmitting multicast packets once to multiple recipients who will then receive the (multicast) packets. This paper identifies the inherent inefficiencies of multicasting when having to encapsulate packets in overlay networks such as those in the Multi-Access/Mobile-Edge to Core 5G infrastructure networks and demonstrate such inefficiencies empirically.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728174402
ISBN (Print)	9781728174419
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145140
Publication status	Published - 21 Jul 2020

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Name	IEEE Conference Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2474-9133
ISSN (Electronic)	2474-9133

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unicast
encapsulation
cloud
multi-tenant
core
5G

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An analysis of multicast inefficiencies in multi-tenant MEC infrastructures for 5G networks. / Eager, Steve; Matencio-Escolar, Antonio; Alcaraz Calero, Jose M.
2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2020. (IEEE Conference Proceedings).

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