Abstract: A novel architecture of cooperated deployment for multi-access edge computing (MEC) was proposed to integrate the radio access networks and core networks. It makes full use of container technology and micro-service to implement the agile deployment scheme. MEC traffic flow is recognized and forwarded efficiently with a modified the protocol stack of data plane in base stations. Moreover, the intelligent domain name system was introduced to handle cooperated task allocation of MEC among multiple network elements. According to the results of practical experiments, the proposed architecture may allocate appropriate MEC processing nodes to specific tasks in line with their characteristics to reduce the delay and enhance the scalability. It provides better performance for low-latency scenarios in the fifth generation of mobile communications system(5G) compared with standalone deployment and traditional task allocation approaches.

Key words: multi-access edge computing, the fifth generation of mobile communications system(5G), network architecture, task allocation