Design and evaluation of TCP congestion control mechanisms assisted by MEC Services

This thesis will investigate the possibility offered by MEC to create novel ser- vices. In particular, it will investigate the possibility to use MEC to assist congestion control in TCP. It is in fact likely that TCP run-time support could benefit from knowing context information, made available via MEC services, to discriminate among possible causes of congestion events for connections travers- ing a radio access network. The thesis will propose a service architecture that allows TCP run time to use MEC services on behalf of an application, and investigate TCP congestion control algorithms that leverage MEC information