CREATION AND MODIFICATION OF SHAREABLE SLICE INSTANCES

    公开(公告)号:US20180139107A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15808349

    申请日:2017-11-09

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/911

    摘要: A method for providing a service in a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of resources and at least one slice of resources. The method comprises actions of receiving, creating and modifying. A request is received from a customer to serve a group of user devices by a first service. A new NSI is created to provide the first service, if it is determined that there is no existing NSI, shareable between a plurality of services, that can provide the first service. An existing NSI, shareable between a plurality of services, is modified to serve the group of user devices by that first service in addition to at least one second service that is already provided by the existing NSI, if it is determined that the existing NSI can provide the first service.

    Method and System for Providing Network Caches

    公开(公告)号:US20170126832A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US14928165

    申请日:2015-10-30

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04L12/26

    摘要: A method and apparatus for deploying a set of network caches in a communication network is provided. A set of network nodes is identified such that, for each of a set of client device locations, and for at least a number c of the set of nodes, output of a coverage cost function is no greater than a threshold. The coverage cost function receives as input a client location and one of the nodes. The set of network caches are then located at the respective set of nodes. The set of network nodes can be selected from plural candidate sets based on a utility criterion. The candidate sets can be generated by successive addition and/or removal of nodes. Information obtained from a Traffic Engineering function can be used to direct selection of the set of nodes. A cache-client association can be generated for directing clients to particular caches.

    SHARED PDU SESSION ESTABLISHMENT AND BINDING

    公开(公告)号:US20190191467A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US16210216

    申请日:2018-12-05

    IPC分类号: H04W76/10 H04W4/08 H04W60/00

    摘要: A network function and a method for associating a UE of a UE group to a PDU session with in a CN. The NF establishes a shared PDU session for the UE group before all of the UEs in the UE group register with the CN and binds a UE that has not yet registered with the CN to the shared PDU session when the UE registers with the CN, provided the UE will share at least one of a UL UP connection and a DL UP connection associated with the shared PDU session. The NF may be an SMF.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING EDGE COMPUTING

    公开(公告)号:US20180352050A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15989863

    申请日:2018-05-25

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04W8/08

    摘要: A method, apparatus and system for supporting Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in a network such as a 5G communication network. Application Function (AF) request data is received from an AF operating in the network in support of MEC, stored in memory, and transmitted from the memory to one or more Policy Control Functions (PCFs) operating in the network. Subscribing PCFs may be notified of the receipt and storage of the data and request retrieval of the data. The data may be stored and handled by a function referred to as the Application Data Repository, or by another data repository. The operations may be performed by a network function such as but not limited to an Application Data Repository function. The function can store the AF request data and notify the PCFs. The function can handle AF requests associated with roaming UEs.