US 11,689,982 B2
Weighted MEC selection for application-based MEC traffic steering
Ye Huang, San Ramon, CA (US); Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US); Maqbool Chauhan, Keller, TX (US); Joseph Lee, Frisco, TX (US); and Miguel A. Carames, Long Valley, NJ (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/409,989.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060348 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/22 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0226 (2013.01); H04W 28/0236 (2013.01); H04W 28/0247 (2013.01); H04W 36/0058 (2018.08); H04W 36/0088 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a network device in a mobile network, a tracking area identifier (TAI) associated with a location of a user equipment device (UE) in the mobile network and a latency requirement associated with a data session involving the UE;
retrieving from a database, based on the TAI associated with the UE and the latency requirement, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) selection weight values, associated with multiple MEC platforms, generated by applying a function to multiple items of data of each MEC profile associated with each MEC platform of the multiple MEC platforms, wherein the items of data of each MEC profile comprises:
first data identifying a Data Network Access Identifier (DNAI) for the MEC platform,
second data identifying an owner or operator associated with the MEC platform,
third data comprising a latency value associated with the MEC platform,
fourth data identifying Tracking Area Identifiers (TAIs) serviced by the MEC platform, and
fifth data identifying a current status of the MEC platform;
selecting a MEC platform, from among the multiple MEC platforms, based on the retrieved MEC selection weight values; and
directing the data session to be established between the selected MEC platform and the UE.