6G • Core Network

EHE

Edge Hosting Environment / Ephemeral Micro-VM Platform

The virtualization infrastructure running at base stations and central offices that hosts third-party enterprise containers and serverless microservices.

Technical Explanation

The Edge Hosting Environment (EHE) is the physical and virtual cloud infrastructure deployed across 6G radio sites, central offices, and roadside cabinets. Featuring ultra-fast PCIe Gen 5 buses, hardware GPUs/NPUs, and lightweight micro-VM hypervisors (like Firecracker and WebAssembly), the EHE spins up ephemeral application instances in milliseconds to execute real-time video processing, industrial robotics control, and local AI inference.

Key Functions

  • Sub-millisecond spin-up of micro-virtual machines and containerized edge workloads
  • Hardware acceleration via shared GPU, NPU, and FPGA hardware virtualization
  • Multi-tenant cryptographic memory isolation ensuring enterprise workload confidentiality
  • Dynamic live workload migration keeping computing proximate to moving mobile users
  • Standardized integration with Kubernetes and CNCF cloud-native orchestration engines
Specifications
ETSI GS MEC 003 / GS MEC 011, 3GPP TS 23.558
Interfaces
EDGE-2 (EAS-EHE)Virtual-Host-API

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