US 12,720,365 B2 · Cloud EAS lifecycle management

Abstract

An apparatus and system are provided to provide the progress and result of lifecycle management (LCM) processes of an edge application server (EAS) virtual network function (VNF) in a cloud. The lifecycle management process information is included in the Network Resource Models (NRMs). An identifier to identify the management service (MnS) consumer initiating the LCM process is included in an EASFunction Information Object Class (IOC), which represents properties of the EAS VNF, and another IOC, which represents requirements to deploy the EAS VNF. The IOC containing the LCM process information permits the consumer to correlate the LCM result with the LCM request. LCM solutions are presented to deploy and terminate EAS VNFs in the cloud using the LCM process information to report the progress and result of the LCM process.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus configured to operate as an edge computing service provider (ECSP) producer of provisioning management service (MnS), the apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to configure the ECSP producer of provisioning MnS to:
receive, from a consumer, a request to deploy at least one edge application server (EAS) virtual network function (VNF) in a cloud, the request including EAS requirements for deployment of the at least one EAS VNF;
send, to a European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) network function virtualization (NFV) management and orchestration (MANO), a request to instantiate the at least one EAS VNF;
receive, from the ETSI NFV MANO, an indication of success of instantiation of the at least one EAS VNF;
and
send, to the consumer, the indication of success of instantiation of the at least one EAS VNF;
and
a memory configured to store the request.

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Cloud EAS lifecycle management

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