Nec Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Nec Europe Ltd.

Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh

Konstantinos Samdanis

Xavier Costa Perez

Anatoly Andrianov

Chaitanya Aggarwal

Christian Mannweiler

Xavier Costa-Perez

Rakshesh Pravinchandra Bhatt

Andreas Kunz

Anja Jerichow

Saurabh Khare

Peter Rost

Jing Ping

Shuping Peng

Vincenzo Sciancalepore

Rudraksh Shrivastava

Yannick Lair

Iris Adam

Fabio Giust

Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan

Kostas Katsalis

Xiaowei Zhang

Chan Zhou

Markus Martin Dillinger

Cinzia Sartori

Emmanouil Pateromichelakis

Stephen Mwanje

Borislava Gajic

Faqir Zarrar Yousaf

Olaf Pollakowski

Marcus Brunner

Dirk Kutscher

Gerald Kunzmann

Shubhranshu Singh

Wieslawa Wajda

Long Le

Giorgio Nunzi

Rajesh Babu Natarajan

Jürgen Goerge

Lajos Bajzik

Marcus Schoeller

Abdelrahman Abdelkader

Divya G Nair

Narasimha Rao Pulipati

Mohammad Istiak Hossain

Xavier Costa-PÉREZ

Giogio Nunzi

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving, at an image creation agent, a data set; generating, by the image creation agent, based on the received data set, an image associated with the data set, wherein pixel values in the image represent values of data entries of a plurality of rows of data of the data set; and outputting, from the image creation agent, the generated image.

Method, apparatus and computer program

A method for performing network management for a shared Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure provided by a mobile network operator includes managing the shared RAN infrastructure by a master operator network manager of the mobile network operator; and allocating, by the master operator network manager upon receiving service requests from one or more tenants, resources to accommodate the service requests. The master operator network manager cooperates with a capacity or resource broker residing inside the network of the mobile network operator that considers information on mobility of a user or a set of users involved in a particular service request for deciding on resource allocations to the particular service request.

Network management method and system for a shared radio access network, RAN, infrastructure

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to dynamic authorization. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a solution for dynamic access control to data is proposed. On receiving data registration from a data source, a first device checks the data types to be produced by the data source and adds policies for the data or updates existing policies for the data according to its property. It also serves as access control decision point to determine consumers' access rights based on centrally managed policies. Authorization for data access is granted/denied according to local attributes/policies. In this way, it achieves a dynamic, context-aware and risk-intelligent access control to different kind of data from various data sources (i.e., service producers).

Mechanism for dynamic authorization

The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising means for: receiving a request from an operator to instantiate a closed loop for managing a communication system; identifying closed loop components based on the request; and instantiating a closed loop for managing a communication system with the closed looped components.

Apparatus, method, and computer program

Apparatuses and methods for collaborative learning

Information regarding disjoint transport paths of a transport network is acquired (S). Based on the acquired information, a user plane node of a plurality of user plane nodes of a core network is selected (S), from which at least one of the disjoint transport paths is reachable, wherein the user plane node is selected as an endpoint of at least one tunnel out of at least two tunnels to be established for a packet data unit, PDU, session to carry traffic between the user plane node and an access node of an access network, wherein the at least two tunnels are to be set up by mapping the at least two tunnels to the disjoint transport paths.

Core network support for transport network path diversity for URLLC user plane

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving, at an analytics function from a first network function, a request for one or more timer adjustments for at least one timer associated with one or more network functions; obtaining, by the analytics function from one or more further network functions, one or more input parameters relating to network behaviour; and sending, from the analytics function to the first network function, an output comprising one or more timer adjustments for the at least one timer, wherein the output is based on the obtained one or more input parameters.

Method, apparatus and computer program for configuring one or more parameters associated with a network function

An apparatus is provided, in a user data holding entity, which comprises: at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: holding analytics services information services information related to a user equipment or an application or application in the user data holding entity, and providing the analytic services information, which is related to the user equipment or to an application related to the user equipment, to a network element subscribed to the analytic services information related to the user equipment or application or to a network element such analytic services information related to the user equipment or application.

Apparatus and method for subscribing analytic services to a user repository in the 5G core network

A technique, comprising: creating at a management plane of a communication network a register of services and/or a register of producers of services in the communication network; and based on at least one of the registers, providing to a consumer information about one or more producers providing services associated with one or more service attributes indicated by the consumer and/or information about one or more services associated with one or more service attributes indicated by the consumer.

Method and apparatus for use in communication networks having control and management planes

There is provided an apparatus configured to: receive, from a management service, location data associated with each of a plurality of transmitters; receive beam and/or antenna parameters associated with beams provided by the plurality of transmitters; use the received location data and received parameters to generate image data representing transmission ranges of the plurality of transmitters; and provide the generated image data to the management service.

Apparatus, methods, and computer programs for automatic neighbor relations

A transport network slice subset management entity is configured to provide an NSSMF of a TN, wherein the transport network slice subset management entity is configured to receive from or send messages to a network slice management entity and to provide configuration information to entities of a transport network. A method for interfacing with a transport network slice subset management entity, comprises the steps receiving, from a request originator, a message comprising a request relating to a network slice subset instance, updating a network slice database of a transport network, according to said request and configuring an entity of a transport network according to said request. A network slice management entity configured to provide an NSMF is configured to send messages to or receive messages from a transport network slice subset management entity.

System, function and interface for interconnecting multi-domain network slice control and management

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods and computer readable storage media for service provisioning to facilitate analysis of a service from a network function (NF). In example embodiments, one or more logs are received from at least one of a first NF, a network repository function (NRF) and a service communication proxy (SCP). The one or more logs are associated with a service from a second NF. Further, analysis of provision of the service from the second NF is facilitated based on the one or more logs.

Service provisioning to facilitate analysis of network function behaviour

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining, by an apparatus configured to operate as a network function a cellular communication system, at least two disjoint network paths, wherein the at least two disjoint network paths are different paths, and comprise different physical resources, transmitting, by the apparatus, a subscription request to an analytics function of the cellular communication system, to request notifications about attacks or risks of attacks on at least one network function on at least one of the at least two disjoint network paths, receiving from the analytics function, by the apparatus, information about at least one compromised network entity and/or at least one network entity having a risk of being compromised on said at least one of the at least two disjoint network paths and performing, by the apparatus, attack mitigation based on said information.

Security enhancements for cellular communication systems

There are provided measures for realization of service level agreements in network slice scenarios joining multiple network capabilities. Such measures exemplarily comprise, as a slice management entity, receiving a network resource combination request, transmitting a request for at least one area base unit fulfilling, receiving, from said area base units repository, area base units fulfilling said at least one predetermined criterion out of stored area base units, generating at least one area base units join, selecting at least one selected area base units join of said at least one area base units join such that a combination of join geographical areas of said at least one selected area base units join covers said slice geographical area, and combining said at least one selected area base units join as a network resource combination.

Realization of service level agreements in network slice scenarios joining multiple network capabilities

A communication apparatus for facilitating setting up of a network slice for service provision in a time division duplex system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for a network slice for at least one service. A processor is configured to specify, for the requested network slice, at least one of an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration and a reconfiguration timescale. A transmitter is configured to notify at least one of a communication entity of a radio access network and a communication entity of a core network of the UL/DL configuration.

SDN-based methods and apparatuses for providing TDD radio access network services

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Munich, Germany

Konstantinos Samdanis