Edge computing relocation
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsLinh Trang, Svante Alnås
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Abstract
A method of operating a terminal (130), comprising: transmitting, to a master control node (290) of an edge computing architecture (299), a configuration request message (7001), the configuration request message (7001) being indicative of at least one of a connectivity status of the terminal (130) indicative of an access network and a location of the terminal (130), receiving, from the master control node (290), a configuration response message (7002) indicative of an edge computing system (260-267), and executing an edge computing application (4001, 4002) using the edge computing system (260-267).
Claims17
A method of operating a terminal, comprising:
- executing an edge computing application using a source edge computing system;
- transmitting, to a master control node of an edge computing architecture, a configuration request message, the configuration request message being indicative of (1) a predicted future connectivity status of the terminal that is indicative of an access network not yet in range to become in range of the terminal and (2) a predicted future location of the terminal;
- receiving, from the master control node, a configuration response message indicative of a selected edge computing system selected by the master control node from a plurality of candidate edge computing systems based at least partially on the access network to become in range as indicated in the configuration request message, and
- wherein the configuration response message enables the terminal to request an inter-edge system relocation of the edge computing application from the source edge computing system to the selected edge computing system associated with the access network to become in range.
A method of operating a master control node of an edge computing architecture, comprising:
- receiving, from a terminal, a configuration request message, the configuration request message being indicative of (1) a predicted future connectivity status of the terminal that is indicative of an access network not yet in range to become in range of the terminal and (2) a predicted future location of the terminal;
- based on the configuration request message:
- selecting an edge computing system from a plurality of candidate edge computing systems based on the access network indicated in the configuration request message, and
- transmitting, to the terminal, a configuration response message indicative of the selected edge computing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.