US Patent 10122547 Enabling high-bandwidth, responsive mobile applications in LTE networks

Systems and methods for standards compatible Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), including splitting Serving gateways (SGWs) and Packet Data Network gateways (PDN-GWs) to provision sufficient resources to deploy data-plane entity instances locally at a Radio Access Network (RAN) edge with one or more cloudlets. One or more local controller nodes is deployed in one or more operator clouds, a dedicated bearer is leveraged to route traffic from the one or more cloudlets through the split SGWs and PDN-GWs, and the dedicated bearer is configured with a traffic flow template (TFT) including an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the one or more cloudlets. Efficient access to one or more MEC applications at the RAN edge is provided to one or more user devices using the dedicated bearer.