US 10,440,096 B2Granted

Application computation offloading for mobile edge computing

AssigneeIntel IP Corporation

InventorsDario Sabella, Miltiadis Filippou, Kilian Roth, Ingolf Karls, Yang Yang, Jing Zhu

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Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for offloading computationally intensive tasks from one computer device to another computer device taking into account, inter alia, energy consumption and latency budgets for both computation and communication. Embodiments may also exploit multiple radio access technologies (RATs) in order to find opportunities to offload computational tasks by taking into account, for example, network/RAT functionalities, processing, offloading coding/encoding mechanisms, and/or differentiating traffic between different RATs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A computer system to be employed as a mobile edge orchestrator (MEC-O) in a mobile edge computing (MEC) system, the computer system comprising:

network interface circuitry to communicate with a plurality of mobile edge hosts (MEHs) in the MEC system, wherein individual MEHs of the plurality of MEHs are located at or near a corresponding access node (AN) of a plurality of ANs;
and
processor circuitry coupled with the network interface circuitry, the processor circuitry to:
identify network characteristics of the individual ANs;
identify MEH parameters of the individual MEHs, wherein the HEM parameters are to indicate available resources of each MEH;
identify application requirements of individual application tasks of one or more applications for computational offloading;
and
select an MEH of the plurality of MEHs for the computational offloading based on the network characteristics, the MEH parameters, and the application requirements, wherein the computational offloading includes transfer of the individual application tasks to the selected MEH for execution.

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A user equipment (UE) comprising:

one or more UE applications to interact with a mobile edge computing (MEC) system comprising a plurality of mobile edge hosts (MEHs);
and
an application offloader to:
identify network characteristics of individual access nodes (ANs) of a plurality of ANs, wherein the individual ANs are co-located with a corresponding MEH of the plurality of MEHs;
identify MEH parameters of individual MEHs of the plurality of MEHs, wherein the MEH parameters are to indicate available resources of the individuals MEHs;
identify application requirements of various application tasks of the one or more UE applications for computational offloading at one of the plurality of MEHs;
select an MEH of the plurality of MEHs for computational offloading of the various application tasks based on the network characteristics, the MEH parameters, and the application requirements;
and
control transfer, during the computational offloading, of the various application tasks to the selected MEH for execution of the various application tasks.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (NTCRM) comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), is to cause the UE to:

identify network characteristics of individual access nodes (ANs) of a plurality of ANs, wherein the individual ANs are co-located with a corresponding mobile edge host (MEH) of a plurality of MEHs in a mobile edge computing (MEC) system, and wherein at least one AN of the plurality of ANs is associated with a radio access technology (RAT) that is different than other RATs of other ANs of the plurality of ANs;
identify MEH parameters of individual MEHs of the plurality of MEHs, wherein the MEH parameters are to indicate available resources of the individuals MEHs;
identify application requirements of various application tasks of one or more UE applications for computational offloading at one of the plurality of MEHs;
select an MEH of the plurality of MEHs for computational offloading of the various application tasks based on the network characteristics, the MEH parameters, and the application requirements;
and
control transfer, during the computational offloading, of the various application tasks to the selected MEH for execution of the various application tasks.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/855,652Filed 27 Dec 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 28 Dec 2016
Published: US 2018/0183855 A128 Jun 2018
Granted: 8 Oct 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04L 67/04
Protocols: specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
G06F 9/5027
To service a request: the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
G06F 9/505
The resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals: considering the load
G06F 9/5072
Partitioning or combining of resources: grid computing