ASSOCIATION OF 3GPP (THIRD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT) UPF (USER PLANE FUNCTION) AND EDGE COMPUTING APPLICATION SERVER

    公开(公告)号:US20210314220A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:US17265012

    申请日:2019-07-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Joey Chou Yizhi Yao

    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate EC (Edge Computing) in connection with 5GC (Fifth Generation Core Network) system architecture. Various embodiments can facilitate one or more of: (1) providing the location of one or more UPFs (User Plane Functions) associated with at least one AS (Application Server) to a non-3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) EC management system; (2) providing the location of at least one AS associated with one or more UPFs to a 3GPP management system; and/or (3) establishing a relation between one or more UPFs and at least one AS.

    Methods and systems for instantiating and connecting radio access network virtualized network function and core network virtualized network function

    公开(公告)号:US11102086B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US16484790

    申请日:2018-03-12

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Joey Chou Yizhi Yao

    Abstract: Examples provide an apparatus for instantiating a Network Service containing a Virtualised Network Function that is part of a Core Network, and a Virtualised Network Function that is part of a next generation Node B, gNB, comprising a Network Function Virtualisation Orchestrator, NFVO, operable to: receive a request to instantiate a new Network Service from a Network Manager; instantiate the Network Service containing the Virtualised Network Function that is part of the Core Network, and the Virtualised Network Function that is part of the gNB; and respond to the Network Manager indicating that the requested new Network Service has been instantiated. In other examples, there is provided a computer implemented method for instantiating a Network Service.

    Operations and notifications for performance management of 5G networks and network slicing

    公开(公告)号:US11051195B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16396312

    申请日:2019-04-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Yizhi Yao Joey Chou

    Abstract: An apparatus of a management service producer comprises one or more processors to create a measurement job for one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks by receiving a CreateMeasurementJob operation request for creating a measurement job for the one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks from a consumer, checking if one or more new measurement types need to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs, requesting the NFs or the management service producer of the constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs to collect the performance data when one or more new measurements types are to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs. The management service producer allows the consumer to choose the reporting method from performance data file reporting and performance data streaming for the collected performance data in the CreateMeasurementJob operation request.

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