US 11,689,980 B2
Elastic transfer and adaptation of mobile client-controlled processes in an edge cloud computing layer
Andreas Andrae, Frankfurt am Main (DE); David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Frankfurt am Main (DE); and Osvaldo Gonsa, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies, GmbH
Appl. No. 17/911,267
Filed by Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/059317
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/209340, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 204 864.9 (DE), filed on Apr. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102852 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 36/12 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 36/12 (2013.01) [H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of initiating a transfer of an active first-type slave process executed in a first processing entity of an edge cloud computing layer to a second processing entity of the edge cloud computing layer, wherein the active first-type slave process receives data and/or control information from an associated active first-type master process executed in a first mobile entity and returns processing results obtained based on the received data and/or the control information to the active first-type master process, wherein a plurality of processing entities is communicatively connected through a network layer, wherein a process sharing connection between the first-type master process executed in the first mobile entity and one of the one or more of the plurality of processing entities of the edge cloud computing layer includes a wireless link between the first mobile entity and one or more of a plurality of wireless access points of the network layer, the method comprising, at the first mobile entity:
receiving a first heat map relating to the first-type master-slave process, the first heat map providing information relevant to process sharing connections, between mobile entities and processing entities, for first-type master-slave processes, at least for a first area including a current and/or a future location of the first mobile entity,
ranking, based on a cost function, possible process sharing connections, between the first mobile entity and one or more second processing entities-, for the current location of the first mobile entity and/or a location of the first mobile entity in the near future, wherein inputs to the cost function include the current requirements of the active master-slave process and information provided in the heat map,
determining, based on the ranking, one or more second processing entities as potential target processing entities to transfer the first-type slave process to, and
transmitting a processing entity transfer request to a control process executed in the edge cloud computing layer, wherein the request includes an identification of the active first-type slave process and indicates at least one of the one or more second processing entities determined, based on the ranking, as potential target to transfer the active first-type slave process to.