Monday 09 May 2016, InterContinental O2 Hotel, London
SWCS 2016 Focus Day: Mobile Edge Computing
Harnessing MEC’s potential for reduced OpEx, improved QoE and new revenue streams
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:10
Chair’s Opening Remarks
09:10 – 09:30
Opening Keynote Address
Nurit Sprecher, Chair, ETSI MEC ISG
09:30 – 10:10
Panel Discussion: Re-evaluating the strategic significance of MEC
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Assessing the impact of early trialled use-cases on the industry ecosystem
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Gauging developer appetite for MEC as a platform for new applications
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The potential for new market segments and end-users – establishing evidence of demand to justify
the investment
Mansoor Hanif, Director of Radio Access, EE
Exploring the technical benefits of early Proofs of Concepts
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Evaluating different architectural options and current limitations in implementing video optimisation
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Quantifying “a more guaranteed user experience” when prioritising video from designated content
providers
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The valuable and measureable additional MEC metrics from accelerating delivery of IP-based content
and streaming media
10:10 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:05
Assessing and prioritising MEC’s key enablers
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Addressing the ‘elephant in the room’, means to make MEC attractive to developers
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Creating and disseminating developer-friendly SDKs
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Gateways and aggregation points – MEC’s ramifications for RAN architecture
Speaker to be confirmed, Vodafone
Networking Break
Panel Discussion: Defining MEC as an offering to the enterprise
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Highlighting the benefits from improved integration between enterprises’ IT and communications
infrastructure
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Outlining the potential for small businesses to obtain access to advanced services with superb QoE
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Marrying function and form – where delivery of media, voice and data services meets diverse
scenarios such as commercial developments and shopping centres
Chris Michaels, Head of Digital, British Museum
MEC as a tool for putting the network on the path to 5G
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Moving the thinking around MEC from the user plane to implementing core network functions
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Splitting the user and control planes and network slicing architectures
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Defining a ‘5G-aligned’ system in the context of pure user-plane MEC strategies
12:05 – 12:25
Securing data at the edge of the network
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The practicalities of site selection and physical security – the cost implications of moving security
architecture closer to the edge
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Means to minimise the potential impact of a compromised server on the overall system
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Matching market segment requirements with MEC security architecture
12:25 – 12:45
Current impediments to MEC deployment and means to overcome them
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Considerations above and beyond verifying physical layer connectivity
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Addressing the well-known challenges associated with caching at the edge
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Comparative analysis of MEC deployment in wide-area and indoor networks
12:45 – 13:45
Networking Lunch
13:45 – 14:25
Panel Discussion: Overcoming technical challenges of small cell MEC deployment
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Addressing the small cell’s relatively limited computing capability and storage
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Balancing concerns regarding the small node’s security and access to core network information
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Solutions to limitations of backhaul that connect small cells both to the Mobile Network Core and the
public Internet
14:25 – 14:45
Balancing service provider provision of MEC-enabled services with real-time requirements and CapEx
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Defining ‘cost-effective’ MEC hardware in relation to multiple deployments in the operator’s edge
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Progress in off-the-shelf hardware that meets all requirements and optimal leverage of NFV and
virtualisation
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The optimal relationships between operator and independent Internet app providers
14:45 – 15:05
The interaction between NFV and MEC
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Identifying existing ‘Edge’ NFV use cases with the most potential for MEC
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Integrating MEC as a software component within existing virtualisation and hardware NFV underlying
technologies
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Resolving potential terminology issues between network functions and applications
15:05 – 15:45
Panel Discussion: MEC’s impact on:
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RAN architecture
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3GPP standards
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Fronthaul techniques
15:45 – 16:00
Chair’s closing remarks, followed by networking reception