Service continuity for edge application server bundle

A method implemented in a user equipment, UE, the UE comprising an edge enabler client, ECC, the method comprising:

• determining that an application context relocation, ACR, is to be performed in a bundle for bundled edge application servers, EASs, each EAS of the bundled EASs having at least one session with an application client, AC in the UE;
• discovering target EASs in the bundle for the bundled EASs, the target EASs being within same edge data network, EDN, or different EDNs based on an EAS affinity;
• and
• transmitting to an edge enabling server, EES, an ACR request comprising at least one of one or more identifiers and endpoints of selected target EASs in the bundle.

A method implemented in a second network node comprising an edge enabling server, EES, the method comprising:

• determining, based on one or both of a service area and a data network access identifier, DNAI, of all edge application servers, EASs, in bundled EASs, that an application context relocation, ACR, is to be performed in a bundle for the bundled EASs, each EAS of the bundled EASs having at least one session with an application client, AC, in a user equipment, UE;
• discovering target EASs in the bundle for the bundled EASs, the target EASs being within same edge data network, EDN, or different EDNs based on an EAS affinity;
• and
• one of:
• transmitting to an edge enabling client, EEC, in the UE a notification message comprising one or more identifiers and endpoints of selected target EASs in the bundle and initiating, and triggering initiation of an application context transfer, ACT, procedure between the EASs in the bundled EASs and the selected target EASs in the bundle;
• and
• transmitting to the EEC in the UE and to a source EAS, S-EAS, behaving as a main S-EAS for the bundled EASs the one or more identifiers and endpoints of the selected target EASs in the bundle and initiating, and triggering initiation of the ACT procedure between the EASs in the bundled EASs and the selected target EASs in the bundle.