At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

University of Michigan

Nec Corporation

Mehrdad Moradi

Oliver Spatscheck

Subhabrata Bapi Sen

Zhuoqing Morley Mao

Sampath Rangarajan

Mohammad Ali Khojastepour

Karthikeyan Sundaresan

Eugene Chai

Systems and methods provide containers instantiated for each user equipment (UE), or on 'per-UE' bases, which consolidate certain network functions for processing UE traffic into an efficient, in-network, and proximate virtualization to reduce latency and increase customizability.

Customizable and low-latency architecture for cellular core networks

A system for implementing a distributed core architecture of a wireless communication network is provided. The system includes a plurality of devices configured to communicate with one or more UE devices to implement the wireless communication network. A given one of the plurality of devices includes at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory and a core agent implemented by the at least one processor. The core agent includes a controller for controlling functionality of the device, a switch operatively coupled to the controller, a precomputed policy data store for storing precomputed policies associated with at least security and service, mobility and policy applications, and a set of core applications including an inter-agent communication application for communicating with other core agents associated with other devices of the wireless communication network, and a control application for controlling the device.

Distributed core architecture for implementing wireless communication networks

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Mehrdad Moradi