On Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey of the Emerging 5G Network Edge Cloud Architecture and Orchestration

By Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis, Badr Eddine Mada, Hannu Flinck, Sunny Dutta, Dario Sabella. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2017

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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