Method for edge computing
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsJinguo Zhu, Lijuan Chen, Qiang Huang, Qiang Zhang
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Abstract
Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A method includes: transmitting, by an application function to a first application server, a tunnel ready notification to allow the first application server to transfer an application layer traffic to a second application server via a tunnel between a first local user plane function for the first application server and a second local user plane function for the second application server.
Claims15
A wireless communication method, applied to an application function in a wireless communication system, wherein the system further comprises a session management function, a first local user plane function, a second local user plane function, a first application server, a second application server, and a user equipment, wherein the method comprises:
- receiving, by the application function from the session management function, a message indicating that a tunnel between the first local user plane function for the first application server and the second local user plane function for the second application server is established;
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- transmitting, by the application function to the first application server, a tunnel ready notification to allow the first application server to transfer an application layer traffic to the second application server via the tunnel;
- wherein the first local user plane function is connected to the first application server via a first N6 interface, and the second local user plane function is connected to the second application server via a second N6 interface;
- wherein the application function is configured to transmit a tunnel creation request to the session management function to create the tunnel, wherein the tunnel refers to an Nx tunnel established by the session management function through an N4 session modification procedure towards the first local user plane function and the second local user plane function;
- wherein the tunnel creation request comprises a traffic description that is used by the first local user plane function for detecting the application layer traffic;
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- wherein the first application server and the second application server are edge application servers and provide local service to the user equipment.
A wireless communication server, comprising:
- a communication unit;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive, from a session management function, a message indicating that a tunnel between a first local user plane function for a first application server and a second local user plane function for a second application server is established;
- and
- transmit, to the first application server, a tunnel ready notification to allow the first application server to transfer an application layer traffic to the second application server via the tunnel;
- wherein the first local user plane function is connected to the first application server via a first N6 interface, and the second local user plane function is connected to the second application server via a second N6 interface;
- wherein the processor is configured to transmit a tunnel creation request to the session management function to create the tunnel, wherein the tunnel refers to an Nx tunnel established by the session management function through an N4 session modification procedure towards the first local user plane function and the second local user plane function;
- wherein the tunnel creation request comprises a traffic description that is used by the first local user plane function for detecting the application layer traffic;
- and
- wherein the first application server and the second application server are edge application servers and provide local service to a user equipment.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which is configured to store a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a wireless communication method, where the method comprises:
- controlling an application function to receive a message from a session management function, the message indicating that a tunnel between a first local user plane function for a first application server and a second local user plane function for a second application server is established;
- and
- controlling the application function to transmit a tunnel ready notification to the first application server, to allow the first application server to transfer an application layer traffic to the second application server via the tunnel;
- wherein the first local user plane function is connected to the first application server via a first N6 interface, and the second local user plane function is connected to the second application server via a second N6 interface;
- wherein the application function is configured to transmit a tunnel creation request to the session management function to create the tunnel, wherein the tunnel refers to an Nx tunnel established by the session management function through an N4 session modification procedure towards the first local user plane function and the second local user plane function;
- wherein the tunnel creation request comprises a traffic description that is used by the first local user plane function for detecting the application layer traffic;
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- wherein the first application server and the second application server are edge application servers and provide local service to a user equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.