Develop a Lightweight MEC Platform Simulator

This paper reviews the use of Minikube in multi-node mode to work with the ETSI MEC Sandbox as a lightweight multi-access edge computing platform simulator (LWMECPS). The work included a comparative analysis of MEC platforms in terms of functionality, cost of deployment, and complexity of adoption. An experiment was also conducted to test LWMECPS as a MEC platform using a Python3 test application. The experiment confirmed the feasibility of using LWMECPS as a MEC platform by deploying a Kubernetes deployment based on the number of users on the simulated 4g-macro network service zones from the ETSI MEC Sandbox. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of existing scientific literature on the use of multi-access edge computing platforms in various use cases.