Dynamic quality of service in edge cloud architectures

At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processing circuitry of a service coordinating entity in a wireless network, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:

• monitoring quality of service (QOS) metrics for a plurality of network function virtualization (NFV) instances, each of the plurality of NFV instances instantiated on a virtualization infrastructure by a corresponding scheduler of a plurality of schedulers of the service coordinating entity;
• retrieving a plurality of threshold metrics, the plurality of threshold metrics associated with a network traffic type of a plurality of network traffic types processed by the plurality of NFV instances and indicating a minimum level for each of the QoS metrics, the plurality of network traffic types associated with a corresponding plurality of wireless communication technologies;
• detecting that at least one QoS metric of the QoS metrics for an NFV instance of the plurality of NFV instances is below a corresponding threshold metric of the plurality of threshold metrics;
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• adjusting a hardware resource used by the NFV instance to establish a communication session with at least a second computing node in the wireless network based on detecting that the at least one QoS metric is below the corresponding threshold metric and further based on a prediction for hardware resource utilization by the NFV instance.

An apparatus of a service coordinating entity in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising:

• means for monitoring quality of service (QOS) metrics for a plurality of network function virtualization (NFV) instances, each of the plurality of NFV instances instantiated on a virtualization infrastructure by a corresponding scheduler of a plurality of schedulers of the service coordinating entity;
• means for retrieving a plurality of threshold metrics, the plurality of threshold metrics associated with a network traffic type of a plurality of network traffic types processed by the plurality of NFV instances and indicating a minimum level for each of the QoS metrics, the plurality of network traffic types associated with a corresponding plurality of wireless communication technologies;
• means for detecting that at least one QoS metric of the QoS metrics for an NFV instance of the plurality of NFV instances is below a corresponding threshold metric of the plurality of threshold metrics;
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• means for adjusting a hardware resource used by the NFV instance to establish a communication session with at least a second computing node in the wireless network based on detecting that the at least one QoS metric is below the corresponding threshold metric and further based on a prediction for hardware resource utilization by the NFV instance.