Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Cellco Partnership D/b/a Verizon Wireless

Kalyani Bogineni

Ratul Kumar Guha

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Hans Raj Nahata

Kristen Sydney Young

Deepa Jagannatha

Niranjan B Avula

Jin Yang

Ye Huang

Praveen Atreya

Lily H Zhu

Miguel Angel Carames

Imtiyaz Shaikh

Balaji L Raghavachari

Timothy M Dwight

Violeta Cakulev

Bharadwaj Vemuri

Sagiv Draznin

Andrew E Youtz

Xin Wang

Xuming Chen

Maqbool Chauhan

Jerry Steben

David Taft

Samir Ait-Ameur

Ravi Potluri

Jyotsna Kachroo

Nabil N Bitar

Gerard J Flynn

William H Stone, Jr

Edward A Salas

Parry Cornell Booker

Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada

Yuexin Dong

Matthew W Nelson

Jeremy Nacer

William Howard Stone, Jr

Dayong He

Kevin Lim

Myron Eugene Bagwell

Prasad Deviprasad

Muthukumar Retnasamy

Ray P Hwang

Nicklous D Morris

Hany Samir Atiya

Byunghun Choi

Kartik P Umamaheswaran

Garima Garg

Lori E Fountain

Suzann Hua

Yee Sin Chan

Vinod Kumar Choyi

Yousif Targali

Bjorn Hjelm

Andrew Wahlon Lam

Mark T Watts

Gerardo S Libunao

Yousef Abdelmalek

Luay Jalil

Hesham Elbatouti

Paula C Scharlach

Samita Chakrabarti

David Robert Lenrow

Gordana Guranovic

Mohan Palat

Muralidhar Devarakonda

Julian Jimenez

Jeffrey Melrose

T Kristen Young

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a hybrid network slicing service. The hybrid network slicing service may enable the initial configuration of a network slice according to network slice requests that may include customized and user-specified network performance criteria. The hybrid network slicing service may enable network slice requests to specify selection of network resources and use/availability based on entity-based criteria including end device and/or application specific associations. The hybrid network slicing service may optimize network slice configurations and generate network slice templates.

Method and system for hybrid network slicing

A network device may receive, from a user equipment, a dataset identifying: applications utilized by the user equipment, network protocol types associated with the applications, and network addresses associated with the applications. The network device may segregate the dataset based on the network protocol types and to generate a segregated dataset. The network device may determine, based on the segregated dataset, a policy that causes particular application traffic associated with a particular network protocol type to be allocated to a particular network slice of the network. The network device may cause the policy to be provided to the user equipment to cause the user equipment to allocate the particular application traffic associated with the particular network protocol type to the particular network slice of the network.

Systems and methods for determining a policy that allocates traffic associated with a network protocol type to a network slice

A device can determine, based on a first packet flow associated with a first user device and application identifiers associated with applications accessible by the first user device, that a first packet associated with the first packet flow is destined for a low-latency application having a specified latency range. The device can identify a first low-latency bearer that satisfies the specified latency range associated with the low-latency application. The device can map the first packet flow to the first low-latency bearer.

Unified radio access network (RAN)/multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for provisioning network resources of multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks in support of an application service session for an end device; assigning an IP address to the end device for use in a first coverage area served by a first MEC network of the MEC networks; receiving, by a first application function (AF) device at the first MEC network, a session mobility notification for the end device with respect to the first coverage area and a second coverage area served by a second MEC network of the MEC networks; setting, responsive to the session mobility notification, an allotted time for relocating the application service session from the first MEC network to the second MEC network; and transferring, during the allotted time, application context corresponding to the relocated application service session to a second AF device at the second MEC network.

System and method for session relocation at edge networks

A device may include a processor configured to establish a data traffic flow for a user equipment (UE) device and determine per flow descriptor attributes associated with the data traffic flow, wherein the per flow descriptor attributes identify at least a source, a destination, and a protocol associated with the data traffic flow. The processor may be further configured to determine at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute for the data traffic flow and send the per flow descriptor attributes and the at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute to a network exposure device of a core network, wherein the network exposure device is configured to communicate with servers outside the core network.

Systems and methods for exposing custom per flow descriptor attributes

Systems and methods described herein use group segmentation of applications (referred to herein as 'slicing classes'), based on common service requirements, to allow carriers to assign UE traffic to network slices. A UE stores slicing class definitions for use with UE Route Selection Policies (URSP). Each of the slicing class definitions include network quality of service (QoS) characteristics that are applicable to network traffic for multiple software applications. The UE maps the software applications to corresponding slicing class identifiers associated with the slicing class definitions. The UE also stores URSP rules for associating a slicing class identifier with a network slice identifier. A UE operating system sends, to a modem, one of the slicing class identifiers for an application that is requesting attachment to a wireless network. The modem sends a registration request with a selected network slice identifier based on the received slicing class identifier and the URSP rules.

Systems and methods of application mapping for network slicing using group segmentation

Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts a parameter barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.

Method and system for supporting voice calls in 5G new radio environments

Systems and methods described herein enforce access controls for network slices via proxy in a secure enclave of a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device executes, in a rich execution environment (REE), a function or application designated for using one or more secure network slices of a telecommunications network. The UE device executes, in a trusted execution environment (TEE), a slice admission control proxy (SACP) to perform admission control for the one or more secure network slices, and forces network traffic for the function or application through the SACP.

Provider proxy for controlling network slice access by user equipment

A computing device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to initialize a Fifth Generation wireless system (5G) function node of a particular type; identify one or more always-on processes associated with the particular type of 5G function node; and activate the identified one or more always-on processes. The processor may be further configured to monitor one or more trigger conditions associated with the 5G function node; detect a trigger condition, of the one or more trigger conditions; identify an on-demand process associated with the 5G function node based on the detected trigger condition; and activate the identified on-demand process in a serverless computing system using a serverless computing interface, in response to detecting the trigger condition.

Serverless computing architecture

A network device may receive Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and network information from network components and from a set of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes; generate descriptions of, or updates to the descriptions of, routing paths based on the NSSAI and the network information; and send the descriptions or the updates to the IAB nodes. The routing paths may include one or more backhaul links between the IAB nodes, and the descriptions and the updates associate each of the routing paths with one or more Single-NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs).

System and method for controlling and managing integrated access and backhaul

A system described herein may provide for the separation of functions associated with a User Plane Function ('UPF') in a wireless network (e.g., a Fifth Generation ('5G') network), such that routing devices associated with the wireless network may perform functionality that would otherwise be performed by virtualized hosts or other configurable resources. For example, routing components which form a backhaul or other portion of the network may process traffic according to a suitable set of policies (e.g., Quality of Service (&#x201c;QoS&#x201d;) policies, content filtering policies, queueing policies, and/or other policies) instead of transmitting such traffic to a UPF associated with the network core for processing.

Systems and methods for user plane function ('UPF') offload at configurable routing fabric

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio access network slice and core network slice service is provided based on RAN-CN network slice pairing information. A radio access network slice and/or a core network slice uses the RAN-CN network slice pairing information to select network resources to support sessions of end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include location information, radio access network slice information, core network slice information correlated to different types or applications or services available to end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include information indicating current and available radio access network resources pertaining to the radio access network slices and threshold resources that may be used to support the different types of applications or services.

RAN-core pairing service

A system described herein may provide a technique for the differentiated Quality of Service ('QoS') treatment of different traffic types associated with the same application (e.g., a 'multi-persona' application) by a wireless network, without the exposure of an application identifier of the application to the wireless network. The application may provide a traffic type indication, based on which a User Equipment (&#x201c;UE&#x201d;) may establish one or more QoS flows or other types of communication sessions with the wireless network, where the QoS flows or other types of communication sessions are associated with a network slice that is associated with the traffic type. The communication sessions may include Data Radio Bearers (&#x201c;DRBs&#x201d;), backhaul links, protocol data unit (&#x201c;PDU&#x201d;) sessions, or other suitable types of communication sessions.

Systems and methods for differentiated traffic treatment for different traffic types associated with multi-persona applications

Systems and methods relate to: receiving a request for session, from a first device over a wireless link, for a service, wherein the request includes a Single-Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) that is associated with the service; determine a priority for the session based on the S-NSSAI; and performing, based on the determined priority, an uplink procedure or a downlink procedure for the session. A network include the network component that receives the request for session.

System and method for determining priorities for handling data based on network slice identifiers

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Kalyani Bogineni