Achieving advanced Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) services such as dynamic resource assignment and slicing, maintaining Quality of Service (QoS), and enabling heterogeneous virtual functions are some of the technical challenges associated with edge-cloud enhanced 5G architectures now under consideration. This paper proposes a named-object based virtual network (NOVN) architecture to support low-latency applications in the MEC. Software router implementation running on the ORBIT testbed validates the named-object approach, showing low VN processing and control overhead, and making it possible to achieve low latency. A latency performance improvement of 30% is achieved as compared to the baseline implementation without NOVN. The results also validate feasibility of using the advanced MEC services for an example latency constrained edge cloud scenario.

实现诸如动态资源分配和切片之类的高级移动边缘计算（MEC）服务，维护服务质量（QoS）并启用异构虚拟功能是与正在考虑的边缘云增强型5G架构相关的一些技术挑战。本文提出了一种基于命名对象的虚拟网络（NOVN）体系结构，以支持MEC中的低延迟应用程序。在ORBIT测试平台上运行的软件路由器实现可验证命名对象方法，显示出较低的VN处理和控制开销，并有可能实现低延迟。与没有NOVN的基准实施相比，延迟性能提高了30％。结果还验证了在示例延迟受限边缘云方案中使用高级MEC服务的可行性。