Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Linh Trang

Svante Alnås

Rickard Ljung

Anders Berggren

Lars Nord

Anders Isberg

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Jim Rasmusson

Zhinong Ying

Peter C Karlsson

Rui Nunes

Erik L Bengtsson

Thomas Bolin

Leland Scott Bloebaum

Magnus Persson

Troed Nils Rickard Sångberg

Svante Alnas

A method for controlling operation of a mobile first Edge Computing, EC, server () configured to provide compute resources to User Equipment, UE, (), wherein the first EC server is connected to an EC management entity () configured to manage a plurality of EC servers (-), the method being carried out in the first EC server and comprising receiving () status information associated with the first EC server from an external entity; receiving () control information from the EC management entity, said control information identifying a power state control instruction; determining () a power state triggering event in accordance with the power state control instruction, based on the received status information; controlling () the power state of the first EC server responsive to the determined power state triggering event.

Power management of movable edge computing servers

A method of operating a source edge computing server () of an edge-computing system (), comprising: based on a first user context () of a first user, a second user context () of a second user, and a group context () of the first user and the second user available to the source edge computing server (): executing a multi-user edge computing application for the first user and the second user; and relocating the first user context () from the source edge computing server () to a target edge computing server (); and providing the group context () from the source edge computing server () to the target edge computing server ().

Relocation of multi-user edge applications

A method of operating a terminal (), comprising: transmitting, to a master control node () of an edge computing architecture (), a configuration request message (), the configuration request message () being indicative of at least one of a connectivity status of the terminal () indicative of an access network and a location of the terminal (), receiving, from the master control node (), a configuration response message () indicative of an edge computing system (-), and executing an edge computing application () using the edge computing system (-).

Edge computing relocation

A method for managing services in an Edge Computing (EC) system that includes at least a first EC host and an EC management entity configured to control the first EC host to instantiate EC applications using one or more services. The method includes the EC management entity: obtaining service information associated with at least a first service for use by an EC platform or an EC application in an EC host; storing the service information in a central service registry of the EC system; and storing availability information associated with said first service in the central service registry.

Management of services in an Edge Computing system

A terminal device is operative to receive a broadcast message () from a cellular network, the broadcast message () including at least one bit associated with coverage enhancement, CE, operation of the terminal device. The terminal device is operative to control, when the terminal device is in CE operation, a radio interface to selectively delay, based on the at least one bit included in the broadcast message (), a CE level dependent repetition of a random access preamble transmission ().

Terminal device, network node and method for random access in coverage enhancement operation

A method for managing resource allocation in an Edge Computing, EC, system (), carried out in an EC management entity () connected to at least one EC host (). The method comprises detecting () a request from a user equipment, UE, (), which request is associated with an EC application; providing () at least one application instance of said EC application in a host of the EC system; receiving () user assignment information from the EC application; and determining () a mapping between the UE and a specific application instance based on the received user assignment information.

Management for managing resource allocation in an edge computing system

Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling a session of an application executed by a User Equipment (UE), using an Edge Computing (EC) management entity configured to manage EC servers comprising computer resources. The EC management entity obtains server information including mobility information related to a first movable EC server. A connection between the UE and the first movable EC server is managed based on the received mobility information.

Method for management of movable edge computing servers

An interface of a terminal switches between at least one active state () and a sleep state () according to a schedule (). Uplink control data is transmitted which is indicative of a temporary prolongation () of the at least one active state ().

Discontinuous reception

A terminal device is operative to receive a broadcast message from a cellular network, the broadcast message including at least one bit associated with coverage enhancement, CE, operation of the terminal device. The terminal device is operative to control, when the terminal device is in CE operation, a radio interface to selectively delay, based on the at least one bit included in the broadcast message, a CE level dependent repetition of a random access preamble transmission.

Based on control data () indicative of a user engagement in a mobile edge application () which is being executed on a source mobile edge server (-) of a mobile edge system () and on a terminal (), relocation of the mobile edge application () from the source mobile edge server (-) to a target mobile edge server (-) is facilitated.

Relocation of mobile edge applications

A service provided by a mobile edge server is relocated. A base station associated with the mobile edge server sends a control message to a mobile edge system, the control message being indicative of a predicted handover of the terminal from the base station to one or more candidate base stations.

Relocation of mobile edge computing services

An access node of a mobile communication network controls access of a group of user equipments to the mobile communication network. The access node selects one or more of the user equipments of the group as candidate user equipment for supporting mobile edge computing. The access node then sends an indication of the one or more candidate user equipments to a mobile edge computing server. The mobile edge computing server receives the indication and selects at least one target user equipment for execution of computational tasks from the candidate user equipments. The mobile edge computing server then distributes a computational task to the selected at least one target user equipment.

User equipment selection for mobile edge computing

A cellular network allocates resources to a device for transmission of a signal for finding at least one RFID tag. The device uses the resources allocated by the cellular network to transmit a signal to the at least one RFID tag in a frequency band licensed to the cellular network.

Methods and devices for finding RFID tags

A method for controlling relocation of a session of an application hosted in a first server () connected to a radio station () configured for communication with wireless devices (), comprising the steps of running () a session of the application between an application host in said server and an application client in a first wireless device; obtaining () context data in the server, which context data is related to the first wireless device during said session; providing () said context data to a management entity configured to control relocation of said session from the first server to a second server.

Method and server for controlling relocation of a MEC application

Systems, apparatus, methods, computer program products and the like provide for updating the CE (Coverage Enhancement)-level of a User Terminal/Equipment (UE). The UE may be a NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) device, a MTC (Machine Type Communication) device or any other device supporting CE. Embodiments of the invention implement UE selection/re-selection of random access resources and/or base station definition of CE configuration, allocation and/or re-allocation of resources between CE levels.

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