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The broad steps of any solution to the above problem are these:
- A. Listen for the events that can trigger a relocation, e.g., notifications from the 5G core regarding user mobility, a new user or PDU session, or application performance issues.
- B. Determine whether to relocate the application.
- C. Determine the ‘best’ target MEC cluster based on many criteria, as stated in the problem description.
- Proximity/latency criteria.
- Global cluster utilization criteria.
- Other app-specific criteria expressed as EMCO intents – e.g. HPA criteria for per-microservice CPU/memory/GPU and imposing resource limits.
- D. Perform the relocation.
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