Patent ID: 11963036
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for a radio access network (RAN) centralized unit (CU) control plane (CU-CP) of a RAN, the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
decode, from a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) message containing a compute message, the compute message comprising an indication of a compute task to be offloaded to the RAN and data of the compute task;
in response to reception of the compute message, determine a CU user plane (CU-UP) and RAN computing service function (Comp SF) associated with the CU-UP for computation of the compute task dependent on computing capabilities of the RAN Comp SF:
encode the data for transmission to the RAN Comp SF;
decode results of the compute task from the RAN Comp SF; and
encode, for transmission to the UE, another RRC message containing a compute message response that provides the results of the compute task; and

a memory configured to store information of the compute task.