External assisted application mobility in edge computing
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsFengpei Zhang, Jing Su
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Abstract
The present disclosure is related to method and network elements for external assisted application mobility for edge computing. A method at a first network element for assisting a user equipment (UE) in mobile edge host switching comprises: setting up one or more geofences, one for each of one or more mobile edge hosts, based on topology information of a network comprising the one or more mobile edge hosts; detecting whether the UE moves across the boundary of a first geofence of the geofences; and transmitting, to a second network element, a message comprising a first indicator indicating a first host switching event for the UE in response to detecting that the UE moves across the boundary of the first geofence.
Claims10
A method at a first network element for assisting a user equipment (UE) in mobile edge host switching, the method comprising:
- setting up one or more geofences, one for each of one or more mobile edge hosts, based on topology information of a network comprising the one or more mobile edge hosts, setting up one or more geofences comprising:
- transmitting, to a database, a request for querying geographic information associated with the topology information, the geographic information comprising, for each cell associated with each of the one or more mobile edge hosts, the longitude and latitude of the center of the cell and the radius of the cell;
- receiving, from the database, the geographic information;
- and
- setting up the one or more geofences based on the received geographic information;
- detecting whether the UE moves across the boundary of a first geofence of the geofences;
- and
- transmitting, to a second network element, a message comprising a first indicator indicating a first host switching event for the UE in response to detecting that the UE moves across the boundary of the first geofence.
A first network element, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- set up one or more geofences, one for each of one or more mobile edge hosts, based on topology information of a network comprising the one or more mobile edge hosts, setting up one or more geofences comprising:
- transmitting, to a database, a request for querying geographic information associated with the topology information, the geographic information comprising, for each cell associated with each of the one or more mobile edge hosts, the longitude and latitude of the center of the cell and the radius of the cell;
- receiving, from the database, the geographic information;
- and
- setting up the one or more geofences based on the received geographic information;
- detect whether the UE moves across the boundary of a first geofence of the geofences;
- and
- transmit, to a second network element, a message comprising a first indicator indicating a first host switching event for the UE in response to detecting that the UE moves across the boundary of the first geofence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.