Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Combined network and computation slicing for latency critical edge computing applications
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Application No.: US17210306Application Date: 2021-03-23
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Publication No.: US11588751B2Publication Date: 2023-02-21
- Inventor: Mikhail Vilgelm , Babar Qaisrani , Biljana Badic , Christian Drewes , Krisztian Kiss , Matthias Sauer , Vijay Venkataraman , Ralph Hasholzner , Robert Zaus , Teck Yang Lee
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L47/80 ; H04L47/78 ; H04L47/762

Abstract:
Methods and devices for creating and operating a combined network and computational slice instance (NCSI) in a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) scenario. Communication and computational resources may be reserved by a NCSI controller for the NCSI. The communication resources may include network slices and the computational resources may include MEC computational resources of one or more MEC servers. The reserved resources may be selected based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of UEs that will utilize the NCSI. During operation, reserved resources for the NCSI may be dynamically renegotiated based on an aggregate load of the NCSI, the QoS of data traffic, and/or updated QoS requirements of the UEs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210306281A1 Combined Network and Computation Slicing for Latency Critical Edge Computing Applications Public/Granted day:2021-09-30
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