Experimental Evaluation of Handover Strategies in 5G-MEC Scenario by using AdvantEDGE

The 5G-MEC architecture increases the heterogene-ity and dynamicity of the available resources, presenting unique and competing challenges to researchers, network designers, and application developers. Recent studies indicate AdvantEDGE as an interesting emulation platform to investigate these challenges. The paper presents a particular example of AdvantEDGE usage. A testbed composed of the emulated 5G-MEC architecture and the VideoLAN application allows to analyse the performance of alternative handover strategies, developed by using a multi-objective approach. The study shows how AdvantEDGE allows a deep analysis of the behaviour of the different strategies during the emulated user mobility, giving the possibility of measuring performance parameters at different layers, i.e. IP, application, and end-user.