Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes A receiving, from a first network element including a control plane node, a first message indicating that a control plane service provided by the control plane node has stopped; receiving a first indication that a conditional resume function of the UE has been activated; receiving a second message indicating that the control plane service has resumed; and based on the first indication, in response to the second message, performing the conditional resume function by sending, to the first network element, a first request to reconnect to the control plane node.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for scaling cloud computing re-sources e.g. virtual network function (VNF) components in a network comprises detecting a need for increasing or decreasing one or more of virtual network function (VNF) components, the VNF components being related to a VNF. In case of decreasing, one or more of the VNF components are selected for removal and the load of the selected one or more of the VNF components is relocated or rebalanced to a remainder of the VNF components and removal of the selected one or more of the VNF components is requested. In case of increasing, one or more VNF components to be deployed is determined, the additional one or more VNF components is requested, and after receiving a command to deploy the additional one or more VNF components the load of the VNF is rebalanced between the VNF components and the additional one or more VNF components.