Ranaweera, PasikaPasikaRanaweeraDe Alwis, ChamithaChamithaDe AlwisJurcut, Anca DeliaAnca DeliaJurcutLiyanage, MadhusankaMadhusankaLiyanage2024-05-102024-05-102022 The A2022-12ICT Express2405-9595http://hdl.handle.net/10197/25915The entire world progression has ceased with the unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and urges the requirement for contact-less and autonomous services and applications. Realizing these predominantly Internet of Things (IoT) based applications demands a holistic pervasive computing infrastructure. In this paper, we conduct a survey to determine the possible pervasive approaches for utilizing the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) infrastructure in realizing the requirements of emerging IoT applications. We have formalized specific architectural layouts for the considered IoT applications, while specifying network-level requirements to realize such approaches; and conducted a simulation to test the feasibility of proposed MEC approaches.enContact-lessCOVID-19MECIoTIoMTLow-latencyReview8457558710.1016/j.icte.2022.03.0012022-08-03318927https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ie/