Fig. 4

5G and MEC Converged Architecture. On the left side is the 5G network, which includes a series of control plane elements such as AMF , SMF , PCF , and user plane elements UPF, access network RAN and terminal UE. On the right side is the MEC, which includes the MEC platform, management orchestration domain, and multiple service providing APPs. All data must be forwarded through the UPF before it can flow to the external network