Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for energy efficient homing and placement of cloudified network functions. A method may include defining features of a policy in an open-cloud domain. The method may also include defining a policy and a policy criteria associated with the features of the policy. The method may further include mapping the policy to at least one operating mode of an open-cloud resource. In addition, the method may include classifying the open-cloud resources in a cluster template. Further, the method may include transmitting the features, the policy, the policy criteria, and the mapping of the policy to a service management and orchestrator or an open-cloud.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, method, and computer program for causing an apparatus to perform: mapping an energy behaviour category to a user equipment, wherein the energy behaviour category is an energy behaviour category of a plurality of energy behaviour categories defined by a network operator that categorizes how energy efficiently an apparatus is behaving; and providing an indication of the mapped energy behaviour category to a requesting network function.