Methods, systems, and devices for provisioning an application on a network node according to movement patterns and application parameters for mobile devices

A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• identifying a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application;
• in response to the identifying of the plurality of mobile devices, identifying a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices;
• identifying a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application;
• in response to the identifying of the first MEC node, identifying a second MEC node at a second location that includes the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold;
• in response to the identifying of the second MEC node, determining a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node, wherein the first communications are associated with the application, wherein the first NRP metric comprises available bandwidth on a network associated with the first communication between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node;
• determining that the first NRP metric satisfies an NRP threshold;
• in response to the determining of the first NRP satisfying the NRP threshold, identifying an application parameter (AP) according to the second location of the second MEC node;
• determining that the AP does not satisfy an AP threshold;
• and
• in response to determining that the AP does not satisfy the AP threshold, provisioning the MEC agent for the application to the first MEC node.

A method, comprising:

• identifying, by a processing system including a processor, a plurality of mobile devices implementing an application;
• in response to the identifying of the plurality of mobile devices, identifying, by the processing system, a group of mobile devices from among the plurality of mobile devices according to a first movement pattern of the group of mobile devices;
• identifying, by the processing system, a first mobile edge compute (MEC) node at a first location according to a proximity threshold that does not include a MEC agent for the application;
• in response to the identifying of the first MEC node, identifying, by the processing system, a second MEC node at a second location that include the MEC agent for the application according to the proximity threshold;
• in response to the identifying of the second MEC node, determining, by the processing system, a first network relative performance (NRP) metric associated with a first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node, wherein the first communications are associated with the application, wherein the first NRP metric comprises available bandwidth on a network associated with the first communications between the group of mobile devices and the second MEC node;
• determining, by the processing system, that the first NRP metric satisfies an NRP threshold;
• in response to the determining of the first NRP satisfying the NRP threshold, identifying, by the processing system, a second movement pattern for the group of mobile devices implementing the application;
• determining, by the processing system, a second NRP metric associated with a second communications between the group of mobile devices and the first MEC node, wherein the second communications are associated with the application, wherein the second NRP metric comprises memory capacity on the network associated with the second communications between the group of mobile devices and the first MEC node;
• determining, by the processing system, that the second NRP metric does not satisfy the NRP threshold;
• and
• in response to determining that the second NRP metric does not satisfy the NRP threshold, provisioning, by the processing system, the MEC agent to the first MEC node.