Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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David Taft

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Parry Cornell Booker

Suzann Hua

Raymond So

Anthony Clay Reynolds

Raquel Morera Sempere

Luay Jalil

Nicklous D Morris

Massimiliano Troiani

A device may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for an application, and may receive, from the UE, parameters of the application and key performance indicator (KPI) targets for the application. The device may receive, based on the request, KPIs from a core network, a mobile edge computing (MEC) device, and an application server, and may compare the KPIs and the KPI targets for the application. The device may determine, based on comparing the KPIs and the KPI targets, whether to utilize the MEC device or the application server for providing the application to the UE. The device may selectively identify a first user plane function (UPF) associated with the MEC device based on determining to utilize the MEC device, or may identify a second UPF associated with the application server based on determining to utilize the application server.

Systems and methods for providing application and subscription aware user plane function selection, steering, and anchoring

A network device may maintain a list of existing slice identifiers, associated with slices of a core network, that are in use in active UE sessions, and may receive a slice identifier associated with a slice of the core network and provided in a request to establish a session between a UE and the slice of the core network. The network device may determine whether the slice identifier matches an existing slice identifier included in the list, and may create a new network address, with an address of the network device and the slice identifier, based on the slice identifier failing to match an existing slice identifier included in the list. The network device may utilize the new network address to establish the session between the UE and the slice of the core network.

Systems and methods for network slice traffic identification using dynamic network addressing

Embodiments described herein allow reduced latency and computational costs by identifying a slice associated with a packet and determining an action to be performed with respect to the packet without having to perform deep packet inspection on the packet. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method comprising receiving a packet including a slice identifier corresponding to a slice of a network, the slice identifier having a plurality of bits; determining a bit value for each bit in a subset of the plurality of bits; and performing an action with respect to the packet based on the bit value of at least one bit in the subset.

Systems and methods for packet management

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