Multi-access edge computing service for mobile user equipment method and apparatus
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsRajesh Poornachandran, Karthik Veeramani, Rajneesh Chowdhury, Ned M. Smith
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for providing connectivity-based and/or connectivity-considered routing with supplemental wireless connections in driving assistance-related activities. Embodiments may be relevant to multi-access edge computing (MEC) and Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) technologies. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Claims25
A computing system to assist vehicle driving assistance (DA) service in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) service, the computing system comprising:
- a proxy entity arranged to register one or more wireless local access networks (LANs) to provide the vehicle DA service;
- and
- a MEC DA application operated by the MEC node, to determine a connectivity-considered route to route a user equipment (UE) with selected one or more subscribed wireless LANs and a cellular network (CN) from a first geographic location to a second geographic location;
- and wherein,
- the proxy entity is to be communicatively coupled to, associated with, or a part of an MEC node of the CN,
- each wireless LAN of the one or more wireless LANs corresponds to a wireless LAN service provider, and
- the one or more subscribed wireless LANs are subscribed by the UE to corresponding one or more wireless LAN service providers.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (NTCRM) comprising instructions to, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of an apparatus, cause the apparatus to:
- acquire a plurality of access nodes (ANs) of wireless local access networks (LANs) associated with respective wireless LAN service providers;
- determine that a mobile device or system is subscribed to one or more of the wireless LANs, the mobile device or system being also subscribed to service of a cellular network;
- and
- determine a connectivity-considered route along a geographic route for a travel from a first geographic location to a second geographic location where the service of the cellular network or lack thereof along a portion or portions of the geographic route can be supplemented by one or more of the subscribed wireless LANs, the connectivity-considered route includes one or more ANs of the one or more of the subscribed wireless LANs.
A user equipment (UE) with communication capability, comprising:
- communication circuitry arranged to communicatively couple to an access node (AN) of a cellular network;
- and
- application circuitry communicatively coupled with the communication circuitry, the application circuitry arranged to:
- select a wireless local access network (LAN) to provide wireless LAN coverage in a remote location from a current location of the UE, based on a plurality of available wireless LANs in the remote location,
- request for subscription of the wireless LAN, via the cellular network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.