Voice service in 5G network: Towards an edge-computing enhancement of voice over Wi-Fi

Nowadays, the voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) is attracting an impressive number of operators, willing to enjoy the various advantages provided with an efficiently invested cost. However, regulatory laws in many countries restrict enabling VoWiFi in a Telecom operator network, due to lack of user's location information. In the 5G technologies, still under standardization today, the edge computing technologies will be introduced to enhance the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and cloud computing concepts. Many studies addressed the edge computing technology, but we did not find any research study that uses this technology to solve the VoWiFi limitations. Our proposal consists of introducing an application on the edge computing platform allowing the retrieval of location information related to VoWiFi users.