Enhancing the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) poses a significant research challenge in the context of connected mobility and a plethora of technological opportunities trying to balance efficiency and widespread applicability. This paper presents a demo focused on applying 5G Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to address this challenge through the combination of commercial mobile devices, public cellular networks, and data fusion between vehicle positioning and city camera infrastructure. The demo showcases the designed system and its experimental evaluation in the Modena Automotive Smart Area (MASA) through the 5G MEC infrastructure of Telecom Italia (TIM) with the aim to build a secure and efficient connected mobility environment.

While servers in traditional data centers can be specialized to run either CPU-intensive or network-intensive workloads, edge data centers need to consolidate both on the same machine(s) due to the reduced number of servers. This paper presents some preliminary experiments to determine how to improve the overall throughput of the above servers, being XDP and AF_XDP the two main technologies into play.