Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Deepak Majjiga

Kristen Sydney Young

Sabareeswar P Balakrishnan

Neeraj Bhatt

Raghuram Parvataneni

Jason T Wright

Abhishek Kumar

In some implementations, a design function may receive a corresponding set of security policy indications. The design function may identify a plurality of network slices, each network slice including at least a subset of the set of network functions. The design function may generate at least one graph representing the plurality of network slices and may simulate, using the at least one graph, traffic through the plurality of network slices. Accordingly, the design function may determine a security template based on at least one conflict detected based on the simulating and may transmit the security template for resolving the at least one conflict.

Systems and methods for network security conflict resolution

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a secure operations, administration, and management (OAM) for remote networks service. The service may categorize performance metric (PM), fault metric (FM) data, and other types of data associated with a virtualized network device of a private network and provide such data to an OAM system of an operator network via a blockchain network or not based on the categorization. The OAM system may also manage orchestration and maintenance of the private network including the virtualized network device based on configuration data transmitted via the blockchain network or not. The virtualized network device may be a radio access network device, a core network device, or an edge server device. The secure OAM for remote networks service may also store service assurance policies as a smart contract in the blockchain network.

Method and system for secure operations, administration, and management for remote networks

A method and system is described that performs dynamic slice management for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Flight path information associated with a flight path of a UAV is used to determine a predicted optimal application and a predicted optimal network slice for use by the UAV at a location along the flight path. Information associated with the predicted optimal application and the predicted optimal network slice is transmitted to the UAV for use by the UAV at the location. The available network slices to the UAV may be updated based on the determined predicted optimal slice. The UAV may adjust its usage of applications and/or slices based on the information it receives associated with the predicted optimal application and the predicted optimal network slice.

Network-driven, location-aware, dynamic slice management for drones

In some implementations, a management system may receive service information from a plurality of service providers. A plurality of network devices, of the plurality of service providers, may be blockchain nodes of a blockchain. The service information, of a service provider, may identify network services provided by a network device of the service provider and identifies a location of the network device. The management system may receive, via the blockchain, information regarding a service-level agreement associated with a subset of service providers, of the plurality of service providers, providing network services for an application. The management system may receive, via the blockchain, an approval of the service-level agreement from each service provider of the subset of service providers. The management system may perform an action based on the service-level agreement and based on the network services provided by the subset of service providers for the application.

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