A method of operating a terminal (130), comprising: transmitting, to a master control node (290) of an edge computing architecture (299), a configuration request message (7001), the configuration request message (7001) being indicative of at least one of a connectivity status of the terminal (130) indicative of an access network and a location of the terminal (130), receiving, from the master control node (290), a configuration response message (7002) indicative of an edge computing system (260-267), and executing an edge computing application (4001, 4002) using the edge computing system (260-267).