Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Traversing Virtual Network Functions from the Edge to the Core: An
  End-to-End Performance Analysis   Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide
both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to
overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and
Multi-access edge computing (MEC). In this paper, we analyze an end-to-end
communication system that consists of both MEC servers and a server at the core
network hosting different types of virtual network functions. We develop a
queueing model for the performance analysis of the system consisting of both
processing and transmission flows. The system is decomposed into subsystems
which are independently analyzed in order to approximate the behaviour of the
original system. We provide closed-form expressions of the performance metrics
such as system drop rate and average number of tasks in the system. Simulation
results show that our approximation performs quite well. By evaluating the
system under different scenarios, we provide insights for the decision making
on traffic flow control and its impact on critical performance metrics.

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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg