The notification management is a SEAL service that offers the notification functionality. This service enables EEC to subscribe and receive notifications from the EES and ECS, and thereby offloading the complexity of delivery and reception of notifications to the edge enabler layer.
By adopting the NF set and NF service set approach, as specified in clause 5.21.3 of TS 23.501, edge server set enable edge service producers (e.g. EES/ECS) in the data network to provide reliable services to the edge service consumers (e.g. EAS, EEC).
Equivalent edge servers may be grouped into edge server sets, e.g. several EES instances are grouped into an EES set. Edge servers within an edge server set are interchangeable because they share the same context data, and may be deployed in different locations, e.g. different data centres.
UE is not required to host multiple instances of the same EEC, but the EEC is able to perform ECS/EES re-selection due to ECS/EES service failure.