METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING EDGE-SERVER OR EDGE-SERVICE THROUGH DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS) RESOLUTION

    公开(公告)号:US20200329109A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16846995

    申请日:2020-04-13

    Abstract: A method of discovering edge-servers and services through domain name server (DNS) resolution in a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform based network is provided. The method includes communicating a DNS-query from a user-equipment to a DNS server, wherein DNS query pertains to a user-request for accessing one or more web-based services. The user equipment (UE) receives, from the DNS server, a response comprising details with respect to a plurality of available-servers configured for rendering the web-based services. The details comprises at-least one of, an indication of the server being edge server associated with the MEC platform or a remote-server, a location of the server, and one or more services associated with the server. Each of the available servers are evaluated by the UE based on the response at-least based on the plurality of associated services and a distance of the server with respect to the UE. The UE selects the nearby edge-server and/or remote server out of the available servers for accessing the one or more requested web-based services at-least based on the evaluation.

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