System and method to support network slicing in an mec system providing automatic conflict resolution arising from multiple tenancy in the mec environment

An MEC system for deployment of applications are provided by MEC tenants, the MEC system comprising:

• a plurality of MEC hosts;
• and
• an MEC management server including one or more processors and memory, the one or more processors and memory collectively providing an MEC Orchestrator, an MEC platform manager, a user app LCM proxy;
• and an MEC broker, the MEC broker being configured to:
• assign privileges and priorities to the MEC tenants;
• initiate, via interaction with the MEC management entities, operations supported by the MEC management entities, the operations including one or more selected from the group consisting of:
• application package on-boarding,
• application instance installation on selected MEC hosts,
• application provisioning, through configuration of appropriate parameters, and
• application life-cycle management operations including bootstrapping, termination, migration, scaling;
• and
• pre-validate, using the privileges provided to the MEC tenants, operation requests issued by the MEC tenants to detect conflicts on the MEC hosts.