IT in general

The document provides a glossary of terms relating to the conceptual, architectural and functional elements within the scope of work on Multi-access Edge Computing. The purpose of this glossary is to ensure that all terminology defined in the document is used in a consistent way by all ETSI MEC deliverables as well as in wider industry discussions on Multi-access Edge Computing.

The standard utilizes the advanced capabilities of the XMPP protocol, such as providing globally authenticated identities, authorization, presence, life cycle management, interoperable communication, IoT discovery and provisioning. Descriptive meta-data about devices and operations will provide sufficient information for infrastructural components, services and end-users to dynamically adapt to a changing environment. Key components and needs of a successful Smart City infrastructure will be identified and addressed. This standard does not develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for existing IoT or legacy protocols.

IEC/TR 62443-3-1:2009(E) provides a current assessment of various cybersecurity tools, mitigation counter-measures, and technologies that may effectively apply to the modern electronically based IACSs regulating and monitoring numerous industries and critical infrastructures. It describes several categories of control system-centric cybersecurity technologies, the types of products available in those categories, the pros and cons of using those products in the automated IACS environments, relative to the expected threats and known cyber vulnerabilities, and, most important, the preliminary recommendations and guidance for using these cybersecurity technology products and/or countermeasures.

In this draft, it is presented the cluster-based edge system architecture and multi-cluster edge network topology that consists of multi-cluster edge system and core cloud. Also, the network functions and network node to configurate and operate multi-cluster edge network collaboratively.

IPSO Smart Object Guidelines provide a common design pattern, an object model, that can effectively use the IETF CoAP protocol to provide high level interoperability between Smart Object devices and connected software applications on other devices and services.

The IPSO Smart Object Registry registry is intended for developers that are building products based on IPSO Objects, it is not intended to be used at runtime by applications.

SG20 develops international standards to enable the coordinated development of IoT technologies, including machine-to-machine communications and ubiquitous sensor networks. A central part of this study is the standardization of end-to-end architectures for IoT, and mechanisms for the interoperability of IoT applications and datasets employed by various vertically oriented industry sectors.

Recommendation ITU-T H.644.4 specifies a functional architecture for mobile/multi-access edge computing (MEC) enabled content delivery network (MEC-CDN). The functions and functional blocks within this functional architecture and the related reference points are specified in this Recommendation for matching the requirements in Recommendation ITU-T F.743.10. Particularly, this Recommendation also provides the deployment of virtualized content delivery network (CDN) service and the interworking between virtualized CDN functionalities and MEC management system, within a MEC-CDN ecosystem. In addition, a containerized solution of MEC-CDN is given in this Recommendation, followed by the basic information flows.

Recommendation ITU-T Q.5003 describes signalling requirements and architecture for federated multiaccess edge computing (MEC). This Recommendation specifies signalling requirements, signalling architecture with reference points and security considerations for federated MEC.

A huge volume of data has been generated from the various smart things. Lots of smart services have been working based on cloud systems. However, the network bottleneck between terminals and a cloud system has incurred various issues (e.g., data loss, network delay, etc.). An edge computing technology between user equipment and cloud server system is attracted to solve these problems. In addition, applying the intelligent data processing functions by providing AI technologies will provide enhanced networking capabilities for new emerging services and applications.

Architecture for edge computing platform supporting a video surveillance system

The purpose of this Recommendation is to guide operator to implement a uniformed security management for multi-vendor environment. This Recommendation analyses main security protection challenges, proposes the collaborative cloud-edge computing security architecture. In addition, this Recommendation describes key technologies and work procedures of the security architecture.