DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLING PATH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A device in a wireless communication system, which is a software defined (SD)-wide area network (WAN) edge device, is provided. The device includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate a plurality of wireless internet protocol (IP) links between the SD-WAN edge and an SD-WAN gateway (GW), and select at least one wireless IP link from among the plurality of wireless IP links on the basis of a policy and wireless quality, wherein the wireless quality includes information on a packet loss of each of the plurality of wireless IP links and information on a throughput (Tput) of each of the plurality of wireless IP links.