A Co-Simulation Framework to Evaluate Edge Deployment Options and Performance

Evaluating edge deployments from a user perspective requires modeling, in a unified framework, the communication part, i.e., the cellular access network, and the computation part, i.e., the Mobile-edge server. This paper presents a framework that enables this, by joining the SimuLTE 4G network simulator and the Intel CoFluent edge-computing simulator. We show how the two tools are integrated and discuss some preliminary validation of the framework.