Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf Gmbh

Lenovo Limited

Ishan Vaishnavi

Prateek Basu Mallick

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Riccardo Trivisonno

Clarissa Marquezan

Xueli An

Dimitrios Karampatsis

Qing Wei

Wint Yi Poe

Chenghui Peng

Chan Zhou

Riccardo Guerzoni

Serkan Ayaz

Emmanouil Pateromichelakis

Artur Hecker

Osama Abboud

Meng Li

Genadi Velev

Apostolis K Salkintzis

Yanmei Yang

Andreas Kunz

Joachim Löhr

Wanqiang Zhang

Roozbeh Atarius

Cuili Ge

Jianjun Wu

Josef Eichinger

Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran

Hyung-Nam Choi

Hanwen Cao

Dario Serafino Tonesi

Sandip Gangakhedkar

Zoran Despotovic

Ravi Kuchibotla

Patrice Michel Christophe Hédé

David Perez

Ramin Khalili

Patrice Michel Christophe Hèdé

Patrice Michel Christophe Hede

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for Digital Identifier-based subscription onboarding. One apparatus includes a memory coupled to a processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control the apparatus to acquire a Digital Identifier ('DIG-ID') comprising a verifiably secure identity, and to generate a digital signature of the DIG-ID and a timestamp using a private key. The instructions are executable by the processor to control the apparatus to send a first request to a mobile communication network and to receive a response containing an onboarding authentication success indication and a verified DIG-ID, the first request including the DIG-ID, the timestamp and the digital signature. The instructions are executable by the processor to establish a provisioning connection to the mobile communication network and to receive a subscription credential and/or a user subscription profile via the provisioning connection.

Subscription onboarding using a verified digital identity

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for disabling analytics information of a network analytics function. One method includes transmitting, from an operation and management system, information indicating to disable analytics information of a network analytics function from use by at least one network function that is subscribed to the analytics information. The information indicating to disable the analytics information of the network analytics function includes: instructions corresponding to the network data analytics function; instructions corresponding to the at least one network function; a data identifier based on the analytics information; an analytics information type corresponding to the analytics information; an identifier or a type of the analytics information; a time interval or time window corresponding to the analytics information; instructions corresponding to a network slice instance; instructions corresponding to a single network slice selection assistance information; and/or instructions corresponding to a network slice subnet instance.

Disabling analytics information of a network analytics function

The present disclosure relates to network slicing, in particular, in 5G networks systems. The disclosure is concerned with network slice enablement for (vertical) applications. Thus, an entity for inter-operation between a network system and at least one application is provided. The entity provides a request to the network system, for selection and/or adjustment of a network slice instance (NSI) providing one or more services to the at least one application. The request comprises a set of requirements for the at least one application and/or the one or more services. The set of requirements comprises a required configuration or adaption of at least one NSI related parameter. The entity further receives a response to the request from the network system. The response indicates a decision of the network system regarding the selection and/or adjustment of the NSI.

Entity and method for network slice enablement for a vertical application

An edge computing entity manages an edge computing system. The edge computing entity has processors coupled to a memory, which, alone or in combination, are configured to execute a method. The method includes obtaining topology information of the edge computing system; and exposing the topology information to a network exposure function or a policy control function of a third generation partnership project (3GPP) system. The topology information includes a weight of each of a plurality of edge data centers in the edge computing system. The edge computing system belongs to a non-3GPP system.

Edge computing topology information exposure

The present disclosure relates to the generation of analytics in a mobile network. The disclosure is concerned with tracing and exposing data information, which is used for generating analytics outputs to enable examination of the analytics outputs. The disclosure provides network entities and methods, which support the analytics generation and examination thereof, respectively. For instance, a first network entity for analytics generation is configured to receive, from a second network entity, a request for providing analytics information associated with at least one generated analytics output. Further, the first network entity is configured to provide the analytics information to the second network entity, wherein the analytics information comprises data information used to generate the at least one generated analytics output, wherein the data information comprises reference to data or data itself.

Tracing and exposing data used for generating analytics

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for adapting a managed entity for an application. One method includes obtaining an association of a management service to an application. The method includes receiving a trigger event report for adapting service requirements for the application. The method includes, in response to the trigger event report, determining an adaptation of a managed entity for the application. The method includes transmitting the adaptation of the managed entity to a management service producer of the management service.

Adapting a managed entity for an application

A method and apparatus are provided, in which execution of a managed entity is controlled. A control loop that is operated relative to the managed entity is established (), which links at least one monitored criteria to an assigned goal having a defined target value. Performance of the managed entity within the control loop is adjusted (), based upon a difference between a current value of the monitored criteria and the defined target value. One or more trigger conditions are associated () with the control loop. A detection () is then made as to whether a trigger condition associated with the control loop has been met. Upon detecting that the trigger condition associated with the control loop has been met, the goals assigned to the monitored criteria, that is linked to the control loop, which has the trigger condition that has been met is changed ().

Method and apparatus including event triggered goal change for control loops

A method and apparatus are provided, in which an execution of at least one managed entity operating within a network is con-trolled by a management entity. The management entity includes a controller adapted for establishing () a control loop having a defined target performance value relative to the at least one managed entity, the control loop having one or more criteria associated with assessing the current performance of the at least one managed entity relative to the defined target performance value, where at least one of the one or more associated criteria can not be directly determined by the management entity. The controller is further adapted for identifying () a translation for each of the at least one of the one or more associated criteria that can not be directly determined using one or more different criteria that can be directly determined by the management entity.

Method and apparatus including recursive closed loop goal translation and configuration

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for trigger-based control loop state transition. One apparatus includes a processor that enables at least one trigger for a control loop of a control system of a mobile wireless communication network in response to a request from an assurance control loop consumer ('ACLC') and associates the at least one trigger with at least one control loop state transition such that the at least one control loop state transition is activated in response to the at least one trigger being triggered.

Trigger-based control loop state transition

A method for disabling/enabling control loop actions and/or configurations is disclosed includes, in various examples, receiving a request from a consumer to disable or enable actions and/or configurable attribute changes for managed entities from being implemented by control loops or entities therein; determining whether the request is performable by the control loops or entities therein; and disabling or enabling an ability to execute the actions and/or configurable attribute changes on the managed entities by the control loops or entities therein in response to determining that the request is currently applicable and performable. A system may perform the method. In some examples, the method disables one or more second control loops/entities from performing actions/configurations that conflict with actions/configurations of a first control loop.

Method and system for disabling or enabling control loop actions and/or configurations

A method for disabling/enabling control loop decisions is disclosed includes, in various examples, receiving a request from a consumer to disable or enable control loop decisions for managed entities from being selected by control loops or entities therein; determining whether the request is performable by the control loops or entities therein; and disabling or enabling an ability to select the control loop decisions on the managed entities by the control loops or entities therein in response to determining that the request is currently applicable and performable. A system may perform the method. In some examples, the method disables one or more second control loops/entities from selecting decisions that conflict with decisions selected by a first control loop.

Method and system for disabling or enabling control loop decisions

The invention relates to a control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service to one or more user equipments (UEs) in a cellular communication network using one or more user plane functions of a plurality of selectable user plane functions. The network entity includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a request for a multicast/broadcast service for the one or more UEs, wherein the request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the one or more UEs and/or one or more spatial regions the one or more UEs are located in; select one or more user plane functions of the plurality of selectable user plane functions on the basis of the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast service to the one or more UEs; and provide the one or more selected user plane functions with information about the multicast/broadcast service.

Providing multicast/broadcast services in 5G networks

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for providing analytics feedback for a network function. One apparatus includes a network interface that receives a first request for a trained machine learning ('ML') model from a network function (“NF”) that supports analytics generation. Here, the first request contains first information including an Analytic Identifier (“ID”). The apparatus includes processor that determines a first trained ML model based on the first information and provides the first trained ML model to the NF. The processor determines that the first trained ML model is invalid and notifies the NF that the validity of the first trained ML model has changed.

Validity notification for a machine learning model

An edge computing (EC) entity belongs to an EC system, and a mobile communication core MCC entity belongs to a MCC system, like a 3GPP system. The EC entity is configured to obtain topology information of the EC system, and expose the topology information to another network, in particular to a MCC system. The MCC entity is configured to receive topology information of an EC system from the EC entity, and provide the topology information to a network exposure function (NEF) or to a policy control function (PCF) of the MCC system.

A control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service for one or more user equipments in a cellular communication network is provided. The control plane network entity is configured to: receive a session setup request for a multicast/broadcast session for the user equipments, wherein the session setup request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the user equipments and/or one or more spatial regions the user equipments are located in; select one or more access and mobility management function entities of the cellular communication network based on the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast session to the user equipments; and send a user plane session setup request to the selected one or more access and mobility management function entities. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a user plane network entity and a radio access network node for anchoring and providing a multicast/broadcast service respectively.

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Ishan Vaishnavi