Apparatus and method for establishing connection and CLAT aware affinity (CAA)-based scheduling in multi-core processor

A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

• a transceiver;
• a memory;
• a connection and customer side translator (CLAT) aware affinity (CAA) scheduler;
• and
• at least one processor coupled with the transceiver, the memory, and the CAA Scheduler, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
• receive at the UE a packet for establishing a CAA-based scheduling;
• determine a path characteristic of the packet;
• determine at least one of an IPv4 connection and an IPv6 connection based on the path characteristic of the packet;
• establish a connection to at least one of an IPv4 server and an IPv6 server based on the determined at least one of the IPv4 connection and the IPv6 connection,
• determine whether an IP header of the packet comprises one of an IPv4 prefix IP address and an IPV6 prefix IP address;
• classify the packet into one category of:
• a Class A category in response to determining that the IP header of the packet comprises IPV4 prefix IP address,
• a Class B category in response to determining that the IP header of the packet comprises IPV6 prefix IP address, and
• a Class C category in response to determining that the IP header of the packet neither comprises IPv4 prefix IP address nor IPV6 prefix IP address;
• and
• schedule, by the CAA scheduler, the packet on at least one core of the at least one processor based on the one of the Class A category, the Class B category, and the Class C category.