Abstract: A method of an electronic device according to various embodiments may include: an operation of serving, by an edge node CPU including at least one core, a control plane for a network function including a virtualization function; and an operation of serving, by a smart network interface card (NIC), a data plane for the network function including the virtualization function to offload at least some operations for the network function including the virtualization function in at least one core. Other embodiments are also available.