US 11,924,065 B2
Method and electronic device for placing micro network function
Seongkyu Song, Suwon-si (KR); Joonwoo Kim, Seoul (KR); Sangheon Pack, Seoul (KR); Jaewook Lee, Seoul (KR); Taeyun Kim, Seoul (KR); Youbin Jeon, Seoul (KR); and Jungsoo Jung, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR); and Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR); and Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jul. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/374,716.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0087135 (KR), filed on Jul. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0021589 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/5041 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/14 (2022.01); H04L 41/147 (2022.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 41/5045 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/145 (2013.01); H04L 41/147 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method, performed by an electronic device, of placing a micro network function, the method comprising:
receiving, from a network, information associated with a history of control signaling overhead of at least one cell including at least one cell edge cloud;
determining at least one micro network function used for a service;
predicting control signaling overhead of the at least one cell, based on the history of the control signaling overhead of the at least one cell; and
placing the at least one micro network function in the at least one cell edge cloud, based on the predicted control signaling overhead of the at least one cell; and
transmitting, to the network, information about placement of the at least one micro network function;
wherein the at least one cell edge cloud is requested to place the at least one micro network function based on the information about the placement of the at least one micro network function.