Study on application architecture for enabling Edge Applications
The present document is a technical report capturing the study on application architecture for enabling edge applications over 3GPP networks. The aspects of the study include identifying architecture requirements (e.g. discovery of edge services, authentication of the clients), supporting application layer functional model and corresponding solutions to enable the deployment of applications on the edge of 3GPP networks, with no impact to edge-unaware applications on the UE and minimal impact to edge-aware applications on the UE.
The study takes into consideration the work done for edge computing in 3GPP TS 23.501 [2] and other related work outside 3GPP.