Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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Anthony Clay Reynolds

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Vijayakrishna P Guduru

David Taft

Raquel Morera Sempere

Peretz Feder

Sachin R Vargantwar

Violeta Cakulev

Lixia Yan

Jerry Steben

Jude M Munn

Luay Jalil

Nicklous D Morris

Lap Tse

Egemen Kemal Çetinkaya

A system described herein may receive a request to associate a protocol data unit ('PDU') session, between a particular User Equipment (“UE”) and a network, with multiple network slices. The system may provide the particular PDU session identifier to a first set of network devices that are associated with the first slice, and to a second set of network devices that are associated with the second slice. The network may route first traffic, received from the UE, to the first set of network devices based on the first traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the first network slice. The network may route second traffic, received from the UE, to the second set of network devices based on the second traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the second network slice.

Systems and methods for multi-slice communication sessions in a wireless network

A device may include a processor configured to determine that Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring is to be performed for a communication session; generate a QoS monitoring policy for the communication session; and provide the QoS monitoring policy to a Session Management Function (SMF) associated with the communication session. The processor may be further configured to receive a QoS monitoring report for the communication session from the SMF and perform an action based on the received QoS monitoring report.

Systems and methods for quality of service monitoring activated by policy control function

A method may include providing a network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a network and providing, a non-third generation partnership project (3GPP) interworking function (N3IWF) in the network. The method may also include subscribing, by the N3IWF, to the NWDAF, and obtaining, by the NWDAF and from the N3IWF, data associated with processing performed by the N3IWF.

Systems and methods for obtaining data for network analytics from a non-3GPP interworking function

A system comprises one or more devices that implement network functions (NFs). The NFs comprise a network data analytics function (NWDAF) configured to provide first analytics to a policy control function (PCF). In addition, the NFs also comprise the PCF configured to: receive the first analytics from the NWDAF; generate a first policy rule based on the first analytics; and forward the generated first policy rule to a network component to process the first policy rule at the network component.

System and method for reducing network component loads

Embodiments described herein allow reduced latency and computational costs by identifying a slice associated with a packet and determining an action to be performed with respect to the packet without having to perform deep packet inspection on the packet. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method comprising receiving a packet including a slice identifier corresponding to a slice of a network, the slice identifier having a plurality of bits; determining a bit value for each bit in a subset of the plurality of bits; and performing an action with respect to the packet based on the bit value of at least one bit in the subset.

Systems and methods for packet management

A system described herein may identify a requested communication session between a UE and a network, such as a core of a wireless network. The system may identify Quality of Service ('QoS') information associated with the UE and/or the requested communication session. The QoS information may include or may be based on a network slice identifier, a QoS value, a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”), one or more models associated with UE attributes, or other suitable information. The system may determine a maximum transmission unit (“MTU”) configuration for the UE based on the identified QoS information and/or models that associate UE attributes to MTU configurations. The system may implement the determined MTU configuration, including providing the MTU configuration to one or more gateways or endpoints of the network and/or to the UE. The UE and the network may accordingly use the MTU configuration when communicating via the requested communication session.

Systems and methods for dynamic maximum transmission unit adjustment in a wireless network

Systems and methods described herein provide an interface for an Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) to extract events from an Edge Application Server Discovery Function (EASDF) for a given network slice. An NWDAF in a core network receives an information request for an Edge Application Server (EAS) discovery service. The NWDAF sends, to an EASDF, a data request based on the information request. The NWDAF receives event data from the EASDF that is responsive to the data request and generates an analytics report based on the event data.

Manager for edge application server discovery function

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a network performance and management service. The network performance and management service may include generating prospective network performance information pertaining to a network element and/or a geographic service area based on current network analytics information, network topology information, and crowd and test data. The prospective network performance information may include prospective performance metric values, probability, and confidence values. The network performance and management service perform a network modification when expected network performance information requirements may not be met.

Method and system for predictive and feedback management of network performance

Disclosed is a valve for fluids, gases or liquids, in which the closure member of the valve is supported, when in closed position, in such fashion that pressure on the intermediate or central portion of the closure causes the periphery of the closure to move upstream, into contact with seats or seals carried by the valve body. Specifically, the plate, when closed, is forced by the pressure of the fluid being controlled against fulcrum members, these fulcrum members being located closer to the periphery of the closure member than to its center, whereby the net effect of pressure on the plate as a whole is effective to deflect the central portion of the plate downstream while deflecting the peripheral portions of the plate upstream into sealing, seating engagement with the seals or seats carried by the valve body.

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