公开(公告)号：US12127306B1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US18178788

申请日：2023-03-06

Applicant: Netsia, Inc.

Inventor： Arda Akman ,  Burcu Yargicoglu

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  H04W80/10 ,  H04W92/04

CPC classification number: H04W80/10 ,  H04W92/04

Abstract: An ‘open control network’ is described, wherein the control plane functions within the Radio Access Network (such as eNodeB and gNodeB) and Core Network (such as MME, AMF and SMF) provide an interface towards the operator and 3rd party control applications. Applications are allowed to securely register to signaling protocols within the control plane, specifically to the RAN or the Core Network control functions to view, intercept and intervene certain types of control messages or procedures. Innovative applications can be developed to view and modify control plane behavior utilizing both traditional methods as well as upcoming Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to provide services that are not part of standard operator offerings. An even more flexible control plane infrastructure is described by allowing operator services and/or non-operator services to subscribe to certain control functions/messages to manage in real-time certain user-group's behavior or enforce slice-specific behavior according to slice requirements.

公开(公告)号：US11575439B1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US17301371

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: Netsia, Inc.

Inventor： Beytullah Yigit ,  Gamze Abaka ,  Seyhan Civanlar ,  Burak Gorkemli ,  Arda Akman ,  Burcu Yargicoglu

IPC: H04B10/2575 ,  G06F9/54 ,  H04B10/27 ,  H04Q11/00 ,  G06F16/22

Abstract: Software Defined Networking concepts apply to access, fronthaul, backhaul and core networks of 5G mobile networks and beyond. Such network components currently have individual/segmented control planes and associated controllers to provide configurability, provisioning, and network slicing. This is because of technology disparity between these network components: access is wireless/cellular, backhaul and fronthaul are optical/fiber, and core is electrical/wire-line. A system/method is detailed that enables a coordinated and unified end-to-end slicing, wherein the coordination is provided in the system/method that (a) attaches to the respective controllers of these network components in real-time, (b) collects the connectivity topology of each network segment as the network evolves, (c) passes the slice-profile information (translating according to capabilities of that network segment to configure an end-to-end slice with a specified bandwidth requirement and service quality level), and (d) passes across a VLAN tag to be used across network segments to associate with the same slice.

公开(公告)号：US20210224890A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17301369

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: Netsia, Inc.

Inventor： Oguz Oktay ,  Bulent Kaytaz ,  Seyhan Civanlar

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q30/08 ,  H04W28/20 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/06

Abstract: Using a Radio Access Network (RAN) capacity exchange (or RANxChange), mobile operators can advertise slices/partitions of available unused base station capacity, and auction and lease it. A member-operator can advertise their unused base station capacity availability or lease capacity from another member-operator for a specific time period. The bidding operators can bid for the full auctioned capacity or portion of the auctioned capacity. The users start attaching the leased slice transparently without any configuration changes on their mobile devices.

公开(公告)号：US20210185601A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17122348

申请日：2020-12-15

Applicant: NETSIA, INC.

Inventor： CAN ALTAY ,  BEYTULLAH YIGIT ,  SEYHAN CIVANLAR

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/24 ,  H04L12/927 ,  H04L12/851 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: An application service provider (ASP) subscribes to a slice of the network of the mobile operator to offer its users on mobile devices a better-quality transport service. For example, the ASP subscribes to and pays for, say, a premium network slice dedicated for the use of its premium users that are on mobile devices. When a premium user accesses the application (and gets authorized by it), the application sends identifiers of the application/user to the Slice Identifier Function (SIF) of the mobile operator, which in turn directs the configuration of the core network components as well as the RAN attached to said user's mobile device according to the application's slice policies. As another example, the ASP subscribes to and pays for the default network slice for a differentiated treatment. When SIF identifies the application, it gives its users a higher QoS/priority than other users within the same slice.

公开(公告)号：US10798638B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-06

申请号：US16278027

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: NETSIA, INC.

Inventor： Can Altay ,  Beytullah Yigit ,  Seyhan Civanlar

IPC: H04W40/34 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04W12/00 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W12/10 ,  H04W80/06 ,  H04W80/08 ,  H04L12/715 ,  H04L12/709 ,  H04L12/723

Abstract: Disclosed within are a system and method for efficient slicing of an SDN-based 5G core network by using service-specific aggregate tunnels along key tunnel interfaces between network functions.

公开(公告)号：US10574322B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15849647

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: NETSIA, INC.

Inventor： Ali Ozer Ercan ,  Mehmet Oguz Sunay

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A service group based dynamic optimization of WWAN and WLAN aggregation in user equipment (UE) is described. The UE has a first radio access technology (RAT) interface associated with a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) based interface that is served by a corresponding base station (BS), and a second RAT interface associated with a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) based interface that is served by an Access Point (AP), wherein, for downlink communications, the first and second RAT interfaces are aggregated. Each UE belongs to at least one service group, wherein the UE performs service group based dynamic optimization of WWAN and WLAN aggregation, with flow split ratios and resource allocation between RAT interfaces being jointly optimized for each service group and each RAT interface.

公开(公告)号：US10178036B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-08

申请号：US15218783

申请日：2016-07-25

Applicant: ARGELA-USA, INC.

Inventor： Ulas Can Kozat ,  Mehmet Oguz Sunay

IPC: H04L12/851 ,  H04L12/927 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Disclosed within is a communication architecture for medium access control (MAC) layer virtualization, where the architecture is made up of: a physical MAC layer, a plurality of physical resource blocks (RBs) associated with the MAC layer, a plurality of virtual medium access control (vMAC) layers, where each vMAC layer corresponds to a separate service group, with each service group programming its own scheduling logic in each vMAC layer, and a plurality of virtual resource blocks (vRBs) associated with each vMAC layer, where the vRBs are filled with data packets according to the scheduling logic in each vMAC instance. The physical MAC layer virtualizes the RBs as vRBs and assigns them to each vMAC layer according to a service level agreement associated with each service group, and each vMAC maps traffic flows of subscribers associated with it onto the assigned vRBs.

公开(公告)号：US09973993B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-15

申请号：US15591971

申请日：2017-05-10

Applicant: NETSIA, INC.

Inventor： Ali Ozer Ercan ,  Mehmet Oguz Sunay

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W36/22 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W36/0083 ,  H04W36/0088 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A joint optimization module (jointly optimizing MRO and MLB) includes: (a) an interpolator receiving a measurement report containing: signal strength/quality values, other performance indicator values, and load values reported by each base station; identifying one or more time instances that lack measurements (of signal strength/quality, performance indicator, or load values), and interpolating values for such time instances; (b) a storage unit storing the received measurement report and interpolated measurement values; (c) a MLB unit receiving the measurement report and outputting optimized HO parameters from a load balancing perspective to an optimizer; (d) a MRO unit receiving the measurement report and outputting optimized HO parameters based on reducing HO related link failures; and (e) an optimizer optimizing, jointly for both MLB and MRO, one or more HO parameters per user group based on the stored measurement reports and interpolated measurement values, the MLB module output, and the MRO module output.

公开(公告)号：US09942819B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US15592167

申请日：2017-05-10

Applicant: NETSIA, INC.

Inventor： Mehmet Oguz Sunay ,  Ali Ozer Ercan

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W36/24 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W36/22 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W36/0072 ,  H04W36/0083 ,  H04W36/0088 ,  H04W36/0094 ,  H04W36/245 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A hand over (HO) parameter optimization module includes: (a) an interpolator that receives a measurement report comprising: (1) signal strength or signal quality values as measured by an user equipment (UE), (2) performance indicator values as measured by the UE, and (3) load values associated with at least one base station that serves the UE, identifying one or more time instances that lack signal strength, signal quality, performance indicator, or load values, and interpolating values for the identified one or more time instances; (b) storage that stores the received measurement report and interpolated values; and (c) an optimizer that optimizes one or more HO parameters per group based on stored measurement reports and interpolated values.

公开(公告)号：US09713077B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-18

申请号：US15178531

申请日：2016-06-09

Applicant: ARGELA-USA, INC.

Inventor： Ulas Can Kozat ,  Mehmet Oguz Sunay

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W36/38 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04W48/16 ,  H04L67/30 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W36/38 ,  H04W36/385

Abstract: A hierarchy of controllers that are part of a communication network include: (1) a network controller at the top of the hierarchy having direct access to at least one subscription profile, ProfileUE, associated with at least one User Equipment (UE), (2) a radio access network (RAN) controller located at a level directly beneath the network controller receiving the subscription profile, ProfileUE, from the network controller, (3) a base station controller associated with a base station and located beneath the RAN controller in the hierarchy, (4) a UE controller associated with an UE located beneath the base station controller in the hierarchy. The RAN controller, based on information in the received subscription profile, ProfileUE, delegates handoff decisions to either the base station controller or the UE controller, and the RAN controller makes such delegation decisions by programming a per UE White List (WLUE) and a per UE Black List (BLUE), the WLUE comprising a programmable list of candidate base stations with which the UE is permitted to conduct handoff operations, and the BLUE comprising another programmable list of base stations with which the UE is not permitted to conduct handoff operations.