Design and Implementation of a Slice as a Service Architecture on the Edge Cloud with Resource Constraints

Cloud Network Slicing (CNS) is a concept that describes a mechanism to provide computing, networking, and storage as a virtual slice entity, enabling new approaches to applications and structuring resources at the edge of the network. In this paper, the architecture defined in the NECOS Project is adopted, and the functions for creating CNS in resource-constrained edge devices were designed and implemented. The implementation was evaluated on Single Board Computers (SBCs), using lightweight virtualization solutions (microservices) and the results achieved show that it is possible to instantiate CNSs on that hardware, however, also show some limitations of multiple slice support on resource-constrained devices.