On the Service Probability of MEC-enabled Beyond 5G Systems supporting 3GPP Location Services

Location-informed network management will play an instrumental role in MEC-enabled next generation-RAN (NGRAN) infrastructures where mobile users are looking to offload local computation tasks to the network edge/cloud continuum. This paper derives exact and approximate expressions on the joint distribution of direct distances from a tagged mobile UE towards two target MEC hosts, as well as the resulting MEC Service probability, conditioned on location knowledge provided by the Location Management Function (LMF). The derived expressions are used to plot numerical results and extract measurable insights on how the presence of an additional MEC host increases the probability of successful task offloading to the MEC infrastructure, or how the seamless mobility of MEC apps across MEC hosts relaxes the requirement of attaining a maximum (direct) distance from MEC hosts.