US 11,871,272 B2
Techniques for communication path selection in an edge environment
Walter Featherstone, Staines (GB); Hyesung Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Nishant Gupta, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/495,349.
Claims priority of application No. 202031043593 (IN), filed on Oct. 7, 2020; and application No. 2113991 (GB), filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110022 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 28/08 (2023.01); H04W 28/12 (2009.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 28/0942 (2020.05) [H04L 45/124 (2013.01); H04W 28/0958 (2020.05); H04W 28/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. A method of determining a communication path between a source edge application server (sEAS), and a target edge application server (tEAS) in an edge network, the method comprising:
receiving, by a source edge enabler server (sEES) from the sEAS, a request for a communication path assessment, wherein the request includes a path identifier, path gateway information, and path performance assessment information;
identifying, by the sEES, a plurality of possible communication paths between the sEAS and the tEAS based on the request;
selecting, by the sEES, one of the plurality of possible communication paths between the sEAS and the tEAS according to one or more predefined criteria; and
transmitting, by the sEES to the sEAS via a target edge enabler server (tEES), a response for the communication path assessment including information about the selected one,
wherein an application context from the sEAS to the tEAS is transferred via the selected one, and
wherein the plurality of possible communication paths between the sEAS and the tEAS comprise at least one of:
communication between the sEAS and the tEAS via the sEES and tEES, where the communication between the sEES and tEES is outside a public land mobile network (PLMN), but within a data network (DN),
communication between the sEAS and the tEAS via the sEES and tEES, where the communication between the sEES and tEES is outside the PLMN, via a cloud,
communication between the sEAS and the tEAS via the sEES and tEES, where the communication between the sEES and tEES is via the PLMN, or
communication between the sEAS and the tEAS via the sEES and tEES, where the communication between the sEES and tEES is via an edge enabler client (EEC).