A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: Efficient Energy Management System

Abstract

With a sharp and steady growth of handheld devices, Internet of Things (IoT) and their related sectors, the need for more demanding, computation-intensive at subsequently lower latency has arisen. To curb the growing need while moving along the ever-increasing pace of resource-hungry and intensive mobile and handheld applications like the better quality of graphics and animation in the mobile gaming industry, there is an ardent need for powerful computational hardware. By bringing cloud computing resources to the end-users (mobile devices in this context), otherwise known as MEC (mobile edge computing) and thus it proves to be efficient energy management of resources like lower offloading computation and less time taken for computation. The need for capable hardware is solved by using existing cloud services. MEC holds the potential to give a platform to the numerous content marketers and services towards the handheld and mobile industry. The improvement in networking and newer and efficient technological advancements make MEC a highly potent possibility. A brief overview of MEC, its related research and advances have been discussed in the paper.