Systems and methods for providing mobility aspects to applications in the cloud
An exemplary system according to the present disclosure comprises at least one mobility networking module implemented in at least one lower tier radiolet. The mobility network module performs one or more traffic data plane functions. The exemplary system further comprises at least one mobility application module implemented in at least one upper tier radiolet. The mobility application module performs one or more application data plane functions. The exemplary system further comprises at least one mobility cloud module implemented in the at least one lower tier radiolet and the at least one upper tier radiolet. The mobility cloud module performs computing execution functions of a cloud session.
1. A system for mobile cloud computing, the system comprising:
at least one first server of a mobility network locally positioned at a radio edge and in communication with a mobile core network, the at least one first server including at least one processor executing computer readable instructions that cause the at least one first server to perform one or more user plane functions;
at least one second server of the mobility network in communication with an application cloud, the at least one second server including at least one processor executing computer readable instructions that cause the at least one second server to perform one or more application functions (AFs) for managing one or more applications and corresponding application data; and
at least one mobility cloud module implemented in the at least one first server and the at least one second server and causing the at least one mobility cloud module to perform one or more session management functions (SMFs),
wherein the system further comprises at least one of:
at least one interconnect module implemented in the at least one first server and the at least one second server and causing the at least one interconnect module to perform communication functions;
at least one solution module implemented in the at least one first server and the at least one second server and causing the at least one solution module to perform application support and data storage functions; and
at least one mobility interface module implemented in the at least one first server and the at least one second server and causing the at least one mobility interface module to perform interfacing functions.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one first server and the at least one second server move user plane functions closer to the radio edge and retain one or more management plane and control plane functions in the mobile core network.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one first server and the at least one second server create virtual and mobile application instances that migrate with a mobile device.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one second server is located at or proximal to at least one hosting datacenter.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one second server is located external to a packet core of the mobile core network.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one first server is configured to perform one or more functions comprising network policy enforcement, monitoring of signaling, data messages, operating as a serving point for at least one Internet protocol (IP) session, processing dynamic content, caching and storing at least one of content and application. data, providing content layer mobility during one or more network mobility events, and providing network and application layer quality of service (QoS).
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more user plane functions include one or more traffic data plane functions including at least one of managing traffic packets, routing the traffic packets, encapsulating and tunneling of the traffic data packets and traffic data packet delivery.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one second server is configured to perform one or more functions comprising supporting a mobile web services engine coupled with dynamic on demand virtualization to one or more sessions across one or more content properties, dynamically distributing content to the at least one first server and serving one or more operator networks.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more AFs include at least one of application hosting, application data processing and application data distribution.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more SMFs comprise one or more of implementation of cloud containerization and implementation of a virtualized cloud session.
11. The system of claim 1 , where the at least one first server includes at least one container in a cloud environment.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one second server is configured to dynamically generate at least one individual container associated with at least one specific application.