Enhancements for Wireless Devices Moving from Edge to Cloud Data Networks

A method for operating an edge configuration server (ECS), the method comprising:

• establishing communication with a user equipment (UE);
• receiving, from the UE, a message indicating a mobility event of the UE, wherein the mobility event corresponds to the UE moving from a first service area which supports one or more edge application servers (EAS) to a second service area which supports one or more cloud application servers (CAS);
• transmitting, to the UE, a response comprising at least one of an indication that a suitable EDN could not be found and information corresponding to one or more suitable CAS,
• wherein the information corresponding to the one or more suitable CAS is useable by the UE in performing an application context transfer (ACT) from the EAS to the CAS.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, perform operations comprising:
• detecting a mobility event of a user equipment (UE), wherein the mobility event corresponds to the UE moving from a first service area which supports one or more edge application servers (EAS) to a second service area which supports one or more cloud application servers (CAS);
• performing communications with an edge configuration server (ECS) regarding the second service area;
• receiving, from the ECS, a response comprising an indication that one or more suitable edge data networks (EDNs) could not be found;
• discovering, a suitable CAS of the one or more CAS corresponding to the second service area;
• and
• performing, an application context transfer (ACT) from the EAS to the CAS.