MAINTAINING A CONNECTION WITH AN EDGE APPLICATION SERVER

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for establishment and maintenance of edge data network services. A UE (115) may initiate a connection between an edge enabler client (340) at the UE (115) and an edge enabler server in an edge data network (305), the connection being established through an edge interface of the edge data network via a wireless communications network (310), the connection being associated with an expiration time at which the UE (115) shall be deregistered from the connection, wherein the edge data network provides application services for one or more UE application clients of a plurality of UEs, and the edge application server provide processing resources or local caching resources for the first one or more application clients; and the UE (115) may transmit, via the wireless communications network (310) and prior to an expiration of the expiration time, a keep-alive message to the edge enabler server (325) to maintain the connection, the edge enabler server (325) being associated with an edge application server (320).