A method, apparatus and computer program product for management of mobile entities

A method comprising:

• wirelessly communicating with a non-stationary mobile edge computing element capable of providing mobile edge application services to wireless communication equipment;
• querying whether the non-stationary mobile edge computing element is available for mobile edge computing;
• maintaining information of the availability of the non-stationary mobile edge computing element for mobile edge computing;
• and
• maintaining information on mobile edge application instances the available non-stationary mobile edge computing element is providing.

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least on memory comprising computer program code,
• the at least one memory and computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to:
• maintain information of at least one mobile edge computing management apparatus;
• maintain information of mobile edge computing instances provided by the at least one mobile edge computing management apparatus;
• maintain information of one or more cells of a wireless communication system which the mobile edge computing management apparatus uses for providing the mobile edge computing instances to wireless communication equipment;
• receive from a non-stationary computing element an indication of a cell of a wireless communication network;
• examine the indication to determine which mobile edge computing management apparatus uses the indicated cell for providing the mobile edge computing instances to wireless communication equipment;
• and
• perform a handover operation, if the examination indicates that the determined mobile edge computing management apparatus is different from a mobile edge computing management apparatus previously used for providing the mobile edge computing instance to the wireless communication equipment.

A method, comprising:

• maintaining information of at least one mobile edge computing management apparatus;
• maintaining information of mobile edge computing instances provided by the at least one mobile edge computing management apparatus;
• maintaining information of one or more cells of a wireless communication system which the mobile edge computing management apparatus uses for providing the mobile edge computing instances to wireless communication equipment;
• receiving from a non-stationary computing element an indication of a cell of a wireless communication network;
• examining the indication to determine which mobile edge computing management apparatus uses the indicated cell for providing the mobile edge computing instances to wireless communication equipment;
• and
• performing a handover operation, if the examination indicates that the determined mobile edge computing management apparatus is different from a mobile edge computing management apparatus previously used for providing the mobile edge computing instance to the wireless communication equipment.