Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Byonggon Chun

Jihun Ha

Seonjun Park

Youngsun Seo

Provided is a technology for executing a virtualized network function in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a server may obtain traffic processing information and mobile edge computing (MEC) service usage information regarding user equipments (UEs) that have accessed a plurality of base stations connected to the server, obtain, based on the traffic processing information and the MEC service usage information, information about traffic to occur due to UEs accessing the plurality of base stations and MEC services to be used by the UEs, and determine, based on the obtained information about the traffic and usage of the MEC services, at least one hardware component on which a software component virtualizing a network function in the server is to be executed.

Method and apparatus for executing virtualized network function

An example method for an edge computing service, of identifying a network protocol to be used by an application client, includes: executing the application client; based on the application client being executed, transmitting a request message for verifying the network protocol to be used by the application client to an edge data network; receiving, from the edge data network, a response message indicating the network protocol to be used by the application client; updating a network protocol policy corresponding to the network protocol to be used by the application client to a data socket, based on the response message.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Byonggon Chun