US 11,689,968 B2
Method and apparatus for executing virtualized network function
Seonjun Park, Suwon-si (KR); Youngsun Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Byonggon Chun, Suwon-si (KR); and Jihun Ha, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/184,060.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0023847 (KR), filed on Feb. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0266792 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 28/12 (2009.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 43/0882 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 28/12 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a server, of executing a virtualized network function in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
obtaining traffic processing information and mobile edge computing (MEC) service usage information regarding a plurality of user equipments (UEs) that have accessed to the server via a plurality of base stations, wherein the traffic processing information includes traffic information indicating an amount of traffic occurred on a virtualized random access network, vRAN, function and resource information indicating physical resources including hardware components used for processing the traffic;
identifying an amount of MEC service usage based on the traffic processing information and the MEC service usage information;
predicting an amount of traffic to occur and an amount of MEC service usage to occur based on the amount of the traffic occurred on the vRAN function and the amount of the MEC service usage; and
determining, based on the predicted amount of the traffic and the predicted amount of the MEC service usage, a type of the physical resource on which each of a software component for the vRAN function and an MEC function in the server is to be executed.