TY - GEN
T1 - A credible service level agreement enforcement framework for 5G edge
AU - Ramneek,
AU - Pack, Sangheon
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (No. 2020R1I1A1A01066031 and 2020R1A2C3006786).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/5/10
Y1 - 2021/5/10
N2 - Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a keystone for enabling wide range of vertical applications with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements over 5G network. With the roll-out of 5G networks across the globe, the mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking forward to generating business-to-business (B2B) revenue by provisioning edge cloud on their networks and hosting the applications of the 3rd party application service providers (ASPs). However, in order to accelerate the adoption of MEC, it is essential to adopt open and standardized service platform as well as a flexible and trustworthy framework for service level agreement (SLA) enforcement. Edge service provisioning will involve strict QoS guarantees for offered edge services based on heterogeneous QoS requirements of different applications, thereby requiring robust, flexible and credible SLA verification and charging as a part of business support system (BSS) of the MNO. Conventional cloud SLAs are not suitable due to lack of the flexibility and credibility required for automatic enforcement in a dynamic and heterogeneous environment. To address this challenge, we propose a blockchain-based framework for credible SLA enforcement. The proposed framework leverages smart contracts to provide an immutable solution, and ensures credibility by introducing an auditing mechanism for verifying the SLA violations.
AB - Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a keystone for enabling wide range of vertical applications with diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements over 5G network. With the roll-out of 5G networks across the globe, the mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking forward to generating business-to-business (B2B) revenue by provisioning edge cloud on their networks and hosting the applications of the 3rd party application service providers (ASPs). However, in order to accelerate the adoption of MEC, it is essential to adopt open and standardized service platform as well as a flexible and trustworthy framework for service level agreement (SLA) enforcement. Edge service provisioning will involve strict QoS guarantees for offered edge services based on heterogeneous QoS requirements of different applications, thereby requiring robust, flexible and credible SLA verification and charging as a part of business support system (BSS) of the MNO. Conventional cloud SLAs are not suitable due to lack of the flexibility and credibility required for automatic enforcement in a dynamic and heterogeneous environment. To address this challenge, we propose a blockchain-based framework for credible SLA enforcement. The proposed framework leverages smart contracts to provide an immutable solution, and ensures credibility by introducing an auditing mechanism for verifying the SLA violations.
KW - 5G
KW - Blockchain
KW - MEC
KW - QoS
KW - SLA
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U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484429
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484429
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85113317618
T3 - IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021
BT - IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021
Y2 - 9 May 2021 through 12 May 2021
ER -