SMALL CELL EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORM

摘要

A small cell may include a base station that may be co-located with an edge computing device. The edge computing device may be integrated within a small cell base station or be a physically separate module communicatively coupled to and in close proximity with the small cell base station that provides edge computing resources at the small cell. The processing responsibilities associated with received data may be split or divided between the edge computing device and a target mobile device. For example, a portion of data processing may be performed by the edge computing device and the remaining portion of data processing may be performed by the target mobile device. The distribution of processing responsibilities may be based on radio link conditions or conditions (e.g., power state or processing capabilities) associated with the target mobile device.

主权项

1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
receiving data for a mobile device in a first small cell; and distributing processing of the received data between computing resources of the mobile device and computing resources of an edge computing device, wherein the edge computing device is co-located with a first base station of the first small cell or a second base station of a neighboring second small cell that is in communication with the first small cell.