The document discusses Intel's 5G infrastructure and its significance in enabling low-latency, high-throughput applications by leveraging Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC). It outlines various architecture components, performance evaluation, and the role of different technologies, such as network slicing and virtualization, in optimizing resource usage and user experience. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of third-party applications and provides guidance for developers utilizing Intel's Network Edge Virtualization SDK.

1. 5G Infrastructure Division
Intel Confidential

2. Network Platforms Group
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3. Intel Confidential – Internal Only
5Gextendsthecloudtothemulti-accessedge
3
Wireless Connectivity X86
Compute
Storage
Smart
Wireless
Smart City
Connected Car
Gaming
Healthcare
Caching
Positioning
Virtual Taps
…

5. 5
Intel5GEnd-to-EndStrategy
OneArchitectureAcrosstheNetwork
Smart
Devices
RadioAccess
Technology
AccessandEdge
Network
Core
Network
Cloud
MM WAVE / LTE / NB-IOT / WIFI
NFV / SDN
Enablingonecomputeplatformfromedgetocloud

6. DATACENTERATTHETELCOEDGE
Implementation
• Distributed network of data centers in the last mile (i.e at the
base of telecom towers, in Cloud Radio Network Sites,
fiber…)
Benefits
• User Experience Impact
• Real Estate provides locations/reduced latency
• 5G => capacity, new spectrums/frequencies, lower
latency
• Network Slicing to favor content, specific
bandwidths, thruput
• Real time workload decisions based on actual latency and
radio frequency congestion
• Secured gateway for operator and enterprises (1st stop into
the network)
Mapping workloads for edge computing
Round trip communication only (sub) use-cases – automated
driving, IoT, gaming interactions
Latency = <5 ms
Latency = <10ms Round trip computation for use cases – AR, IoT (Smart
grids), Medical apps, FaaS
Latency = <40ms Round trip computation + storage for use cases – AR (relaxed), IoT
(non-stringent), Video analytics, FaaS (latency non-bound), caching
and accelerated browsing
Clients Cloud / OTT
+ Flexibility / +Capacity / + Latency / - Locality
Wireless
Local CO Regional CO
- Flexibility / -Capacity / - Latency / + Locality
CORE
Latency
Fiber
Cable Last mile/
access

7. Core Cloud/DATACENTER
CENTRAL
OFFICES REGIONAL
CENTRAL
OFFICES &
DATA
CENTERS
MACRO CELLS
WIRELINE
CARRIER WIFI
SMALL CELLS
LICENSED &
UNLICENSED
Network EdgeFog
ACCESS/EDGE
WhereistheEdge? CSP’s view of
Edge
CoSP’s view
of Edge
Enterprises
view of Edge
Devices/things
HOME
ENTERPRISE/FACTORIES
Edge Computing
ON-PREMISE
EQUIPMENT
WIRELESS
Intel Confidential – Internal Use Only

8. 8BMG | INTEL CONFIDENTIAL, FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
Key Drivers for Edge Compute
 Low latency that can not be achieved by using centralized cloud
 Reduction of movement of the massive amount data generated by IOT
devices to reduce cost and enable efficient use of resource
 Data Privacy and Data Sovereignty
 Context Awareness
 Scenarios where connectivity is unreliable or limited
BMG | INTEL CONFIDENTIAL, FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

9. Network Platforms Group
NPG5GINFRASTRUCTUREBUILDINGBLOCKS
ACCESS Edge&CORE NFV/SDN
Cloud Ready Networks
Scalability&flexibilityfornetworkingworkloads
CapabilityENABLERS
VNFs
NFVi
MANO
IA
Linux
KVM
Optimized
Ingredients
Network Slicing
• 5GNR RAT @ 28GHz,
39Ghz and 3.5 GHz
• MIMO
• Custom Si for Baseband
and Radio
• FlexRAN Reference
Software
• vCCAP (Cable) Reference
Software
Intel® Xeon®
Processor
Intel® Ethernet
Controller
Altera®
FPGA
Intel®
3D XPoint
Intel® QuickAssist
Intel® Quick Sync
Video
Intel® AtomTM
Processor
Intel® Resource
Director
• FlexCore Reference
Software
• MEC Source Libraries
• Network Edge
Virtualization SDK for
developers
• Next Generation CO
Reference Architecture
• RSD
• Ciphering libraries
• CPRI over Ethernet FPGA
Reference
• Transport Interworking
software
• Visual Cloud (VCD)
Libraries
Intel® CORE®
Processor

11. MEC System Reference Architecture
11
MobileEdge
SystemLevelMobileEdgeServerLevel
Mobile edge platform
Mobile edge Host
Virtualization Infrastructure
Data plane
UE
app
VIM
Other
mobile
edge
platform
Mobile edge platform
element mgmt
Mobile edge application
orchestrator
Mm3
Mm1
Mx2
Mm8
Mm9
Mp2
Mp1
ME
app
ME
app
Service
Mm2
Mm5
Filtering
rules
control
ME
service
Service registry
DNS
handling
ME
platform
element
mgmt
CFS
portal
Mx1
Mp3
Other
mobile
edge Host
ME app
rules &
reqts
mgmt
ME
app
lifecycle
mgmt
Mm7
User
app
LCM
proxy
Operations Support System
Mm4
Mm6
Reference Point names:
Mp: ME platform functionality
Mm: management
Mx: connections to external entities
Reference: ETSI ISG MEC GS MEC-003 “Framework and Reference Architecture”
remote
app

12. MEC Opportunities
12
MobileEdge
SystemLevelMobileEdgeServerLevel
Mobile edge platform
Mobile edge Host
Virtualization Infrastructure
Data plane
UE
app
VIM
Other
mobile
edge
platform
Mobile edge platform
element mgmt
Mobile edge application
orchestrator
Mm3
Mm1
Mx2
Mm8
Mm9
Mp2
Mp1
ME
app
ME
app
Service
Mm2
Mm5
Filtering
rules
control
ME
service
Service registry
DNS
handling
ME
platform
element
mgmt
CFS
portal
Mx1
Mp3
Other
mobile
edge Host
ME app
rules &
reqts
mgmt
ME
app
lifecycle
mgmt
Mm7
User
app
LCM
proxy
Operations Support System
Mm4
Mm6
Application
Developers
with UX
Skills
Virtualization and platform SW skills
(Hypervisor, Container Virtualization)
Orchestration
and
Operations
Management
Skills
MEC utilizes the NFV infrastructure; opportunities for adjacent VNF providers
AdjacentVNFs
AdjacentVNFs

13. 13
3GPP View: MEC in 4G
SGi Interface
S1 Interface
SGieNodeB
MEC
Platform
S/P-GWS1-AP
Internet
SGiS1APS1
SGieNodeB
MEC
Platform
S/P-GWS1-AP S1-AP
Internet
S1 S1

14. UE (R)AN UPF
AFAMF SMF
PCF NEF
DNN6
NRFUDM
N3
N2 N4
AUSF
Nausf Namf Nsmf
NpcfNnrfNudm Nnef
Naf
NSSF
Nnssf
MEC in 5G
14
MEC HOST (COMPUTE)
Control-plane
Orchestration
MEC Control
U-Plane
Apps
U-Plane
Apps
FFS
Management

15. APIs: REST-HTTP style + Data model + JSON[&XML] formats + Message Bus Hooks
Richardson maturity model level 2..3
ETSI-defined Mobile Edge Services
ME Application Development
© ETSI 2016. All rights reserved
15
Mobile edge platform / Mp1
ME app
1
ME app
2
ME app
3
MEC012
Radio Network
Information API
MEC013
Location
API
MEC014 UE
Identity API
MEC015
Bandwidth
Manager API
MEC011
App Enablement
MEC009APIPrinciples
ME app
n
Service
MEC0nn
Developer community
MEC0nn = ETSI MEC API specification API0nn = Third party ME service API specification
…ME app
4
Service
APInnn
Platform APIs

16. MEC deployment in mobile networks
16
MEC deployment option on S1 interface
MEC data plane
eNB #1
UE1
MEC
App 1
S1
MEC platform
Mp2
Mp1
S1
User plane -
GTP
Control plane – S1-AP
SGW PGW
MME
MEC Host #1 Centralized CN site
MEC data plane
eNB #2
MEC platform
Mp2
S1
User plane -
GTP
Control plane – S1-AP
MEC Host #2
MEC orchestrator
Mm3
MEC platform manager
MEC
platform
element
mgmt
MEC app
rules &
reqts
mgmt
MEC
app
lifecycle
mgmt
Mp3Mm5
Application
Server
Web
Mp3 interface
Mm5 interface
Mm3 interface
LEGEND
Mx2/Mm9/Mm3
interface
non-MEC interfaces
MEC
App 2
Mp1

18. 18
Intel® Network Edge Virtualization (NEV) SDK
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Software Development Kit
 MEC Reference Libraries
 Intel® System Studio Suite
 Wind River HW optimized modules
with SW only NEV SDK option
 Open Stack components
 S1, SGi (EPC), WiFi traffic
 Test Suites
 Programming Guide
 User Guide
 App Notes
 VLAN Tags processing
MEC Reference Libraries provide S1 / IP
traffic information to VMs
Real Time Virtualization, accelerated
vSwitch out of the box
Open standards-based solution delivers
flexibility, scalability and interoperability
Look Inside® Intel Kit
Release 1:
Hypervisor Wind River Titanium Server
Components (on the Host Platform)
Virtual
Machine 1
…
Release 2:
Your
Application
Goes Here!
Release 3:
CentOS-7
NEW
NEW
NEW
NEW
NEW
Intel ®Atom™
Processor C2000
Platform
Intel® XEON®
Platform
Software Only
Option
And
Here!
NEW

19. Intel Confidential
Intel® NEV-SDK & Mobile Edge Computing
Edge Computing is key technology for 5G which will address low latency and high
throughput requirements in 5G Networks. It provides a platform for deploying
intelligent applications at the edge of the network. NEV SDK is a key enabler to this
transformation, by providing an easy to use MEC reference platform focused on
application development.
Intel® NEV-SDK Release 3.0
The NEV SDK enables ISVs develop platform services on a feature rich MEC ready sandbox. This enables
TEMs & Operators alike trial and model the advantages of MEC deployment using Intel’s MEC reference
platform. Release 3.0 of the NEV SDK comes loaded with following new features;
• Software only version
• S1, SGi(EPC) and WiFi Traffic deployment Support
• GTP-U based on IPv4 / IPv4 / VLAN tagged IPv4 / VLAN tagged GTP-u
• Reference MEC Manager and MM5 API support
• Reference Service registry and Policy Support
• Out of the box support for 4 Types of MEC Apps services
• Logical Port abstraction and Driver (DPDK) Abstraction
For more information please visit: https://networkbuilders.intel.com/network-technologies/nev
Copyright © 2017 Intel Corporation.
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MEC reference platform
Data Plane Development Kit
Network
Information
Services
Network Traffic Services
Wind River* Titanium Server
Advanced vSwitch
VM
MEC-like API
Mobile Edge Application
VM
MEC-like API
Mobile Edge Application
MEC server
Polaris
EPC
emulator
Polaris
LTE eNB
emulator
NEV SDK 3.0…
……A LOOK INSIDE
MEC Restful API
DNS Cache

20. Intel NEV SDK
20
ETSIGSMEC017

21. 21
NEV-SDK v3.0 Bundle Options
Hardware Optimized NEV-SDK Software only NEV-SDK

22. 22
NEV SDK Software Stack
Wind River Titanium Server with Accelerated Virtual Switch (AVS) (Control
Node and Compute Node)
CentOS Release 7.3.1611 (base environment)
Development and Creative Workstation
Development Tools Hardware
Monitor
Virtualization
Hypervisor
DPDK 16.07.2
Qemu 1.7.0
Redis 3.0.6+
Development libraries: Hiredis, Boost, JSON C++, OpenSSL, FastCGI)
Qemu 2.7.1
Nginx 1.9.9+ Nginx 1.10.3+Redis 3.2.8+NEV SDK 3.0.0 AVP 1.1.0 KLM
DPDK 16.07.2
NEV SDK 3.0.0
Additional tools (tcl, expect, Python 2.7.3 and
libraries, HTTPLIB2, websocket-client, lperf3)
Additional tools (tcl, expect, Python 2.7.3 and
libraries, HTTPLIB2, websocket-client, lperf3)
accelerated virtual
port (AVP)
corresponding to AVS
DPDK 1.7.1 (VM
acceleration
for AVS
acceleration in
VMs
Sample MEC Manager
Emulator
Sample MEC
Manager Emulator
Wind River Titanium OpenStack Shipped without virtualization environment, developers may
integrate (e.g., Community OpenStack)
HW Optimized WR Titanium 3.0 Bundle CentOS 7 (SW only) Bundle

23. Network Edge Services (NES)
REST API
Services Registry
Platform services
Network Traffic
Services (NTS)
23
Data Traffic Configurations
Virtualization
Management
Accelerated
vSwtich/
OVS
VM
NES API
MEC Apps
VM
NES API
MEC Apps
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) SDK
Windriver OVP(TIS)/CentOS 7.2 – RT Kernel
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
Hardware abstraction – Logical ports
ETSI MEC Mp1
Intel® Xeon™ Platform
IP Traffic
S1 Traffic S1 Traffic
vENB vEPC Internet
IP TrafficIP Traffic
S1
Traffic
vENB Internet
Distributed
vSGW/vPGW
vEPC
vMME, vHSS
Access Point
IP Traffic IP Traffic
InternetWiFi Gateway Local Breakout
IP Traffic/ S1 Traffic
Control Node
Windriver
Openstack
Mobile Edge platform
Manager
ETSI MEC
Mm5
L2
(vlan)
IP
UDP
GTP-U
L2
(vlan)
IP

24. 4 Types of ME Producer Applications
ME SERVICES
1. TYPE 1. Host-borne. Platform generates service
data, stores service data on the ME Platform, and
provides them as Platform-Specific Services.
2. TYPE 2. VM-borne. ME App Service generates and
stores service data but publishes it through the ME
Platform; the ME Platform validates the format of
published service data.
3. TYPE 3. VM-borne. ME App Service generates and
stores service data; ME App establishes service
subscription with ME App Service directly.
4. TYPE 4. VM-borne. ME App Service generates
service data but stores data on the ME Platform,
and provides them also as Platform-Specific
Services like ME SERVICE TYPE 1.

25. 25
Edge Cloud Reference Architecture
Intel® Architecture Ingredients
Xeon-Server QATNetworking FPGA/accelerators
VIM
OpenStack
vRAN
L2
L1
L3
vEdge
Core
vSGW
/PGW
vSeG
W
WiFi
VNF Managers
(Service Orchestration)
VNFMs
Orchestrators
3rd party
Domain
Orchestrators
Wireline
vOLT
vFixed
Edge
vCPE
vBNG
Hosted
Service
s
MNO1
Edge
Azure
Stack
Green
Grass
Non-
MEC
Apps
APPS
1
APPS
2
Core
PG
W
SG
W
Mobile Edge
platform
Manager
Interface through
Local Breakout(LBP)
Interface through LBP/Internet
Interface through EPC Port
ETSI MEC mm5
Mobile Edge Compute Node(s) MEC Connected Cloud and Network Nodes Telco Edge Cloud Orchestration
and Management
Uplink
Traffic
Source

26. Message Flows
26
NEV SDK API Model

27. RESTful (MEC-like) API Overview
R3.0 provides an updated MP1 API over the previous release, based on API definition provided by Applied
Computer Solutions, in addition to the inclusion of a new MM5 API.
• MP1 for communication between ME App and ME Platform. R3.0, for the most part, implements ME
App lifecycle management.
• MM5 for communication between ME Manager and ME Platform.
ME PlatformME Manager
ME App/
ME App service
MM5 MP1
NOTE: More detailed API definition and use may be found in NEV_SDK_API_Programmer_Guide

28. RESTful (MEC-like) API List
28
Procedure Name URL HTTP Verb Qualification
MM5 Application Configuration /appliance/v1/configuration POST Mandatory
MM5 Application Termination /appliance/v1/termination POST Mandatory
MM5 Manager Connection Establishment /appliance/v1/notifications/memanager GET Mandatory
MP1 Live Indicator /appliance/v1/live_apps POST Mandatory
MP1 Termination Indicator /appliance/v1/live_apps DELETE Mandatory
MP1 Connection Establishment /appliance/v1/notifications/{RefID} GET mandatory
MP1 Service Activation /appliance/v1/service POST mandatory
MP1 Service Deactivation /appliance/v1/service/{serviceId} DELETE optional
MP1 Service Discovery /appliance/v1/service GET mandatory
MP1 Service Subscription /appliance/v1/subscriptions/{serviceId} GET mandatory
MP1 Subscriptions Update /appliance/v1/subscriptions PUT mandatory
MP1 Service Unsubscription /appliance/v1/subscriptions/{serviceId} DELETE optional
MP1 Subscriptions Reset /appliance/v1/subscriptions DELETE optional
MP1 Service Data Update /appliance/v1/notifications POST mandatory
MP1 Traffic Rule Creation /appliance/v1/traffic POST mandatory
MP1 Traffic Rule Update /appliance/v1/traffic/{Traffic_Rule_ID} PUT mandatory
MP1 Traffic Rule Removal /appliance/v1/traffic/{Traffic_Rule_ID} DELETE mandatory

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Getting Access to Intel NEV-SDK
• 3 Step process
1. Request access here:
https://networkbuilders.intel.com/network-technologies/nev
(If already a member@networkbuilders add via “Quick Links”)
2. Respond to following Intel questions (via email):
i. Project scope (success criterion and timelines/commitments)
ii. Which hardware (CPU/NIC)
iii. Lab location (GEO account team/support coordination)
iv. Context (engagements, contribute to Intel collateral, support requirement)
3. Accept licence to download from Intel portal

32. 32
Intel NEV-SDK Enabling the MEC VNF Ecosystem
Network Operators/Enterprises:
- Demonstration and PoC
- Proposal and Evaluation
- Inter-Op Testing
Academic and Standards Bodies:
- PoC Demos
- Specs development/verification
- Plugfest and IoT
Independent Software Vendors:
- Develop MEC applications
- New Business models (XaaS)
- Edge / Hybrid Cloud platforms
Equipment Manufacturers:
- Reference SW for MEC product
- Demonstration and PoC
Creating Business Value
CreatingOpportunities