ETSI MEC

Oleg Berzin, Akraino TSC Co-Chair and PCEI PTL, is selected as Akraino Contact Person for ETSI MEC at the Akraino TSC meeting on June 3rd 2021.

Invited @Dario Sabella  and @Walter ETSI MEC DECODE WG Chair to add content.

ETSI MEC is developing APIs for the Edge in a number of spaces, including Run-time Edge Application Services.   A public web site for ETSI MEC is found here:  https://www.etsi.org/technologies/multi-access-edge-computing.   Among other useful information, the site links to a public overview deck that provides a summary of all the group's activities.  The deck is here: Deck Link.  The group's portal with full work detail is here ETSI MEC Portal (not all information is publicly accessible on the portal).  

All completed APIs - including a number of key Run-time API's are available on the group's OpenAPI hub hosted on ETSI's Forge site https://forge.etsi.org, best accessed via gitlab https://forge.etsi.org/gitlab/mec.  

The currently available APIs (as of July 4, 2019) are: 

• MEC Edge Platform Application Enablement API - GS 011

• Radio Network Information API - GS 012

• Location API - GS 013

• UE Identity API - GS 014

• Bandwidth Management API - GS 015

• UE Application Interface API - GS 016

A partial list of relevant Akraino blueprints and projects (accurate as of July 4, 2019)

• AI/ML and AR/VR applications at Edge

• IEC Type 4: AR/VR oriented Edge Stack for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family

• Micro-MEC

• 5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming, HD Video and Live Broadcasting Blueprint

• API Gateway

• MEC API Framework

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MeoW3m9k5TWUrhyt9S3zs3FZwFuy9MT07DLSJre__Lk/edit#heading=h.1588m29bsfuo

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XrFJ9rebgftKSgEZCatrRxqvf0_1GsepyYFcL74w8xA/edit

Note: this is a working document and will be updated based on the work of the Hackathon Organazing Committee (HOC)

Hackathon Overview:

Call for Developers document

https://europe.edgecomputingworld.com/call-for-edge-developers/

As part of the ETSI MEC - Akraino Collaboration Plan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MeoW3m9k5TWUrhyt9S3zs3FZwFuy9MT07DLSJre__Lk/edit#heading=h.1588m29bsfuo Akraino speakers are invited to paticipate in the ETSI MEC Tech Series podcasts. The podcasts episodes are published by ETSI MEC ISG on a monthly basis.

The series is available from ETSI’s YouTube site – the Tech Series itself can be accessed directly from : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlNY888NYhGA_qOP_-dflG12xo37xEw7h

The Episode #7 was posted in April 2022 and featured a talk by Akraino's @Oleg Berzin on "DevOps MEC Infrastructure Orchestration" showcasing the Akraino PCEI Blueprint and its relation to MEC Infrastructure deployment, MEC Federation as well as the orchestration of MEC Services.