A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: Focusing on Service Adoption and Provision

Table 2

Summary of literatures on different modes.

Item	Related work	Key points
MEC	Definition [22–24]	[22] The difference between EC and MEC; [23] The main use cases and reference scenarios standardization; [24] MEC on 5G
	Architecture [25]	[25] MEC architecture
	Different network types [26]	[26] Potential service scenarios
Comparison of several modes	[27, 28]	[27] A set of parameters, decision tree; [28] The basic problems of the distribution and active caching computing tasks
MCC	[29–35]	[29, 30] MCC definition; [31] Review of MCC; [32] Public cloud; [33] Cloudlet; [34] Ad hoc mobile cloud; [35] MCC Integrating cloudlets and MEC
FC	[41, 42]	[41] The definition and similar concepts; [42] A more comprehensive definition
Cloudlet	[46, 47]	[46] Cloudlet's computer cluster as a complement to computing offloading for cloud; [47] Cloudlet can only be used for wireless access environments