Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Jani Olavi Soderlund

Niko Markus Savolainen

Tommy Johannes Lindgren

Sumanta Saha

Juha Pekka Hyttinen

Jyrki Olavi Nousiainen

Tapio Antero Kiviharju

There is provided allocating cloud computing resources to process a user session by a gateway in a mobile communications network, and allocating the cloud computing resources in pairs to user sessions. Rules for the pair of allocated resources are determined such that incoming control plane traffic associated with the session is forwarded to the both cloud computing resources forming the pair.

Allocating virtual machines in a gateway coupled to a software-defined switch

Upon a user equipment attaching to a core network of a cellular communications network system, an IP address is allocated to the user equipment by a network device of the core network, for tunneling data relating to the user equipment between the network device and an application server. The IP address is allocated from a subnetwork, and the allocating is performed based on path monitoring information. If the path monitoring information contains an IP address of at least one subnetwork, the subnetwork is selected from the at least one subnetwork. Then it is checked if the path monitoring information contains a combination of the subnetwork's IP address and the application server's IP address. In case the combination is not contained in the path monitoring information, a path indicated by the combination of the subnetwork's IP address and the application server's IP address is added to the path monitoring information.

Connectivity monitoring for data tunneling between network device and application server

Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media regard automatic symptom data collection in cloud deployment. The method includes detecting a failure, determining when to trigger symptom data collection for collecting information about the failure, and transmitting an indication of the triggering of the symptom data collection to a management function of the virtual network function.

Automatic symptom data collection in cloud deployment

A method for subscriber tracing comprises capturing user plane packets in a network apparatus implementing a 3GPP policy and charging enforcement functionality PCEF. Packet-specific metadata is added to a captured user plane packet. The packet-specific metadata may be used for facilitating subscriber-specific troubleshooting of core network elements.

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Vantaa, Finland

Jani Olavi Soderlund