Enabling high-bandwidth, responsive mobile applications in LTE networks

A system for standards compatible Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), comprising:

• a splitter for splitting Serving gateways (SGWs) and Packet Data Network gateways (PDN-GWs) to provision sufficient resources to deploy data-plane entity instances locally at a Radio Access Network (RAN) edge with one or more cloudlets;
• and
• a processor coupled to a computer-readable storage medium, the processor being configured to:
• deploy one or more local controller nodes in one or more operator clouds;
• leverage a dedicated bearer to route traffic, using one or more of the local controller nodes, from the one or more cloudlets through the split SGs and PDNs;
• configure the dedicated bearer with a traffic flow template (TFT) including an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the one or more cloudlets;
• and
• provide one or more user devices efficient access to one or more MEC applications at the RAN edge using the dedicated bearer.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including a computer-readable program for standards compatible Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), wherein the computer-readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:

• splitting Serving gateways (SGWs) and Packet Data Network gateways (PDN-GWs) to provision sufficient resources to deploy data-plane entity instances locally at a Radio Access Network (RAN) edge with one or more cloudlets;
• deploying one or more local controller nodes in one or more operator clouds;
• leveraging a dedicated bearer to route traffic, using one or more of the local controller nodes, from the one or more cloudlets through the split SGs and PDNs;
• configuring the dedicated bearer with a traffic flow template (TFT) including an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the one or more cloudlets;
• and
• providing one or more user devices efficient access to one or more MEC applications at the RAN edge using the dedicated bearer.