POLICY-DRIVEN LOCAL OFFLOAD OF SELECTED USER DATA TRAFFIC AT A MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING PLATFORM

A method is presented for optimizing communication for a user identified by a user identifier accessing a service in a telecommunication network. The method including the steps of:analyzing at the edge site all traffic packets originating from the user which connects to the network;checking whether the traffic packet requests a service;checking whether the service is available at the server of the edge site;rerouting the traffic packet to the edge site on the basis of a forwarding policy which is based either on the user identifier or on information contained in the IP packet portion; andforwarding the traffic packet to the core network if the traffic packet does not satisfy the policy or the service is not available at the edge site. The step of rerouting the traffic packet to the edge site includes rerouting the traffic packet by the serving gateway.