Subject: [icnrg] Mobile Edge Computing and ICN

From: Dirk Kutscher <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:11:21 +0000

Dear all,

In the industry panel at the ACM SIGCOMM ICN conference 2014 this year, we briefly discussed about operators' in future content delivery and value chains. One of the topics that we mentioned in that context was "Mobile Edge Computing" (MEC) -- a new ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG).

It is probably fair to say that the ETSI MEC ISG is picking up ICN-related concepts that ICN folks have been working on for a while, i.e., optimized local content distribution and data caching. How much "ICN" will actually be in the final specifications will obviously depend on contributions from the involved companies.

If you have not heard about MEC before, there is a web page with links to presentations and white papers:

http://www.etsi.org/technologies-clusters/technologies/mobile-edge-computing

Best regards,
Dirk