FERRET: Fall-back to LTE Microservices for Low Latency Data Access

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FERRET keeps LTE control plane in the core and runs LTE user-plane as edge microservices, implements IMS media gateway at the edge, records and replays control-plane signaling during service establishment to enable local handling, copies shared functions such as PCRF/charging to the edge and uses a blocking mode to avoid races and deadlocks, and measures latency drop from about 110 ms to 25 ms, claiming up to 6x reduction in the implemented prototype.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:22LTE Background
3. 1:26IIMS
4. 1:53IIMS signaling
5. 2:23Hardware platforms
6. 3:05LTE Network Function Virtualizer
7. 3:46Existing Approaches
8. 4:36Mobile Compute
9. 5:36Data Charging
10. 6:30Design Considerations
11. 7:14Race Condition
12. 8:04deadlock
13. 11:45Conclusion

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