Federated multi-access edge computing availability notifications

A method, comprising:

• notifying, by an Access Point (AP) of a wireless network of a federated service, a User Equipment (UE) that the wireless network supports Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC);
• in response to receiving an attach request from the UE for the wireless network, forwarding, from the AP to an independent identity provider in an identity federation, wherein the independent identity provider is external and independent from the wireless network, authentication credentials for the UE to authenticate an identity of the UE on behalf of the wireless network;
• in response to the independent identity provider authenticating the UE:
• transmitting, from the independent identity provider to the AP, an authentication success message for attachment to the wireless network;
• forwarding, from the AP to the UE, the authentication success message for attachment to the wireless network;
• and
• permitting the UE to access MEC resources in the wireless network based on the identity for the UE authenticated by the independent identity provider to the wireless network.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a data plane node of a cloud service provider of a federated service, uplink data traffic from a UE attached to a wireless network that supports Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC);
• forwarding the uplink data traffic from the data plane node to an individual service hosted by the cloud service provider associated with the uplink data traffic;
• receiving, at a cloud edge orchestrator of the cloud service provider, MEC details that identify MEC resources in the wireless network are available to the UE to handle the individual service locally to the wireless network;
• establishing an offload orchestration session between the cloud edge orchestrator and the MEC resources to transfer performance of the individual service from the cloud service provider to the wireless network;
• and
• forwarding, from individual service and the data plane node to the UE, downlink data traffic responsive to the uplink data traffic from the individual service hosted by the cloud service provider until the offload orchestration session is complete.