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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/5006 (2022.01); H04L 41/5009 (2022.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/5006 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); H04L 63/0869 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system includes establishing, between two or more MEC providers, an agreement that defines mutual access policies that specify which MEC platforms and which MEC applications and/or services running on the MEC platforms are allowed to be exposed among each other and/or to other tenants. The MEC platforms are provisioned with appropriate configurations in accordance with the access policies of the agreement. A discovery process is executed for discovering a MEC platform within a MEC stack of another tenant and a communication link is established with the other tenant's MEC platform.