Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

Ngoc-Dung Dao

Hang Zhang

Xu Li

Nimal Gamini Senarath

Hamidreza Farmanbar

Aaron Callard

Sophie Vrzic

Philippe Leroux

Ho-Ting Cheng

Meisam Mirahsan

Osama S Aboul-Magd

Sheng Sun

Petar Djukic

Alex Stephenne

Ho Ting Cheng

Gamini Senarath

Halim Yanikomeroglu

Mark Andrew Hawryluck

Junghoon Suh

Osama Aboul-magd

Rainer Schoenen

Ziyang Wang

Fabrice Labeau

Oscar Humberto Delgado Collao

Marwen Bouanen

Vikram Krishnamurthy

Omid Namvar Gharehshiran

William August Hoiles

Kaveh Shafiee

Upon receiving a request for a virtual network and before admitting the requested virtual network, a virtual service provider controller may assess the ability of the virtual service provider network to meet conditions specified in the request. In particular, the virtual service provider controller may consider details of the traffic expected in the requested virtual network in the context of existing traffic on the virtual service provider network. Consideration may be given to geographic distribution of traffic, type of traffic, and key performance indices. Indeed, traffic of different types may be homogenized through the use of weighting factors to simplify the assessment. Upon determining that the virtual service provider network may not be able to meet the conditions, the virtual service provider controller may attempt to obtain additional resources from an infra-structure provider network or may attempt to adjust resources allocated to already admitted virtual networks.

Methods and systems for provisioning a virtual network in software defined networks

System and method embodiments are provided for providing customized virtual networks based on SONAC. In an embodiment, a network management entity for providing a customized VN includes a SONAC module executed by a computing device that is connected to a wireless network, the SONAC module configured to receive service requirement data from the wireless network and create a service customized VN according to the service requirement data, the service requirement data describing one or more service requirements, wherein the SONAC module comprises an interface to interact with: an SDT component, the SDT component used by the SONAC module to determine a service customized logical topology; an SDRA component that maps the logical topology to physical network resources within the wireless network; and a SDP component that determines an end-to-end data transport protocol for communication between a first device and a second device via the wireless network.

Systems and methods for providing customized virtual wireless networks based on service oriented network auto-creation

Disclosed is system and method to implement an on-demand file repair protocol. In the protocol, a traffic source sends all data packets of a data file to a traffic sink. The traffic source then sends to the traffic sink an indication that the sending of the all data packets is complete. If data packets are missing, a request is received from the traffic sink for retransmission of missing packets. The traffic source then sends fountain codes of the missing packets to the traffic sink.

Method and system for on-demand file repair

Systems, devices and methods are provided for incorporating a quality of experience (QoE) assessment into requests or negotiations for a particular quality of service (QoS) for an application in a communications network. A network may provide service in accordance with a particular set of QoS parameters in order to meet a user's requested QoE. A user may select a particular QoE for an application depending on costs associated with the corresponding sets of QoS parameters available from the network. Functionality to determine the correlation between a user's QoE and sets of QoS parameters may be implemented primarily in a user's electronic communications device, primarily in a network device, or in both of these devices. A separate device may be used for determining the QoE and corresponding sets of QoS parameters for various services or applications.

Method and device for requesting a quality of experience in a communications network

A method and apparatus for deploying a set of network caches in a communication network is provided. A set of network nodes is identified such that, for each of a set of client device locations, and for at least a number c of the set of nodes, output of a coverage cost function is no greater than a threshold. The coverage cost function receives as input a client location and one of the nodes. The set of network caches are then located at the respective set of nodes. The set of network nodes can be selected from plural candidate sets based on a utility criterion. The candidate sets can be generated by successive addition and/or removal of nodes. Information obtained from a Traffic Engineering function can be used to direct selection of the set of nodes. A cache-client association can be generated for directing clients to particular caches.

Method and system for providing network caches

Network caching performance can be improved by allowing users to discover distributed cache locations storing content of a central content server. Specifically, retrieving the content from a distributed cache proximately located to the user, rather than from the central content server, may allow for faster content delivery, while also consuming fewer network resources. Content can be associated with distributed cache locations storing that content by cache location tables, which may be maintained at intermediate network nodes, such as border routers and other devices positioned in-between end-users and central content servers. Upon receiving a query, the intermediate network nodes may determine whether the content requested by the query is associated with a cache location in the cache location table, and if so, provide the user with a query response identifying the associated cache location.

Distributed content discovery for in-network caching

An embodiment method for network optimization includes obtaining a first request to deliver a first data to a node in a network at a first data rate; obtaining a second request to deliver the first data to the node at a second data rate; and determining a flow decision schedule for a streaming session. The determining the flow decision schedule includes: scheduling a steady-state delivery period to deliver the first data at a steady-state data rate in accordance with the first data rate; and performing a best-effort allocation in accordance with the second data rate to determine a schedule for a supplemental delivery period, concurrent with at least a portion of the steady-state delivery period, to deliver the first data at a supplemental data rate.

System and method for online multimedia streaming services

A method for managing a cache memory network is disclosed. The method comprises estimating the popularity of a piece of data content according to an extreme learning machine, and managing the cache memory network according to the estimated popularity of the piece of data content. Estimation may be performed upon a request for the piece of data content, and may be accordingly cashed into an appropriate cache memory device upon estimation of its popularity.

Systems and methods for data caching in a communications network

A method for effective flow rate estimation for a plurality of video flows includes determining a first flow rate of each of the plurality of video flows in a first transmission window and receiving quality of experience (QoE) feedback for playing portions of the plurality of video flows in the first transmission window. The QoE feedback is received from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) receiving the plurality of video flows. A dynamic effective flow rate is estimated for each flow in the plurality of video flows in a second transmission window in accordance with at least the first flow rates of the plurality of video flows and the QoE feedback.

System and method for dynamic effective rate estimation for real-time video traffic

Methods and systems for determining placement of a virtual serving gateway. The method includes obtaining a set of input information. The input information includes network information and configuration information providing one or more parameters for placing the virtual serving gateway, and includes at least one mobility insensitivity criterion. Placement of the virtual serving gateway at one or more physical hosts is determined in accordance with the network information and the configuration information. The virtual serving gateway is distributively placeable across physical hosts. A set of output information is generated. The output information includes information identifying placement of the virtual serving gateway at the physical hosts, and a hosting percentage for each physical host.

Systems and methods for placing virtual serving gateways for mobility management

An apparatus for adaptively defining clusters transmit points for coordination in a communication network includes a circuit that receives radio frequency channel information corresponding to the transmit points and defines a subset of the transmit points based at least in part on the radio frequency communication channel information. The subset is interrelated by a contiguous chain of dominant interference relationships between pairs of the transmit points. The apparatus further includes a processor that independently coordinates radio communications among the subset of transmit points.

Dynamic clustering for radio coordination in a virtual network

In one embodiment, a method of wireless load balancing includes receiving, by a communications controller from a device, a plurality of messages including a plurality of demands of a plurality of UEs and a plurality of locations of the plurality of UEs, where the plurality of demands includes a demand of a UE of the plurality of UEs, where the plurality of locations includes a location of the first UE, and where the location of the UE is in a cell and determining a utility map in accordance with the plurality of demands and the plurality of locations. The method also includes determining a recommendation of user behavior of a user of the first UE in accordance with the utility map, the location of the first UE, and the demand of the UE and transmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, the recommendation of user behavior.

System and method for wireless load balancing

Real-time video can be efficiently and reliably streamed over wireless networks by fountain encoding a stream of video packets at the frame-level. Specifically, deep packet inspection may be performed on the stream of video packets to identify a set of video packets corresponding to an intra-coded frame (I-frame). The set of video packet may then be fountain encoded together as a data segment to produce a set of fountain encoded packets corresponding to the I-frame. Video packets corresponding to other frames (e.g., P-frames, etc.) may also be encoded on a frame-by-frame basis. This may allow a user equipment (UE) to begin displaying earlier frames in a group of pictures (GoP) while fountain encoded packets for subsequent frames are still being received, thereby reducing latency and improving the overall user experience.

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