Federation-Aware MEC Architecture for Dynamic Service Migration
Magalhães, D. M.
; Matos, J. M.
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Escaleira, P.
; Santos, D.
;
Corujo, D.
;
Gomes, D.Gomes
;
Aguiar, R.
Federation-Aware MEC Architecture for Dynamic Service Migration, Proc IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks NFV-SDN, Athens, Greece, Vol. , pp. - , November, 2025.
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Abstract
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) enhances 5G services by enabling low-latency edge-based processing. However, isolated deployments limit its scalability and resource efficiency. To address this, we propose a federation-aware MEC architecture that supports cross-domain service migration through the introduction of a MEC Federator and a Metrics Forwarder with fine-grained, policy-driven orchestration mechanisms. We implemented and validated this solution by extending an existing open-source MEC-NFV platform with the proposed architecture, enabling the management of heterogeneous administrative domains. Evaluation shows that, despite added orchestration overhead, the system maintains service continuity across federated domains.
