Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Peretz Feder

Anthony Clay Reynolds

Mourad B Takla

James Mathew

Egemen Kemal Çetinkaya

A system described herein may receive a request to associate a protocol data unit ('PDU') session, between a particular User Equipment (“UE”) and a network, with multiple network slices. The system may provide the particular PDU session identifier to a first set of network devices that are associated with the first slice, and to a second set of network devices that are associated with the second slice. The network may route first traffic, received from the UE, to the first set of network devices based on the first traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the first network slice. The network may route second traffic, received from the UE, to the second set of network devices based on the second traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the second network slice.

Systems and methods for multi-slice communication sessions in a wireless network

A system comprises one or more devices that implement network functions (NFs). The NFs comprise a network data analytics function (NWDAF) configured to provide first analytics to a policy control function (PCF). In addition, the NFs also comprise the PCF configured to: receive the first analytics from the NWDAF; generate a first policy rule based on the first analytics; and forward the generated first policy rule to a network component to process the first policy rule at the network component.

System and method for reducing network component loads

A device may receive network data identifying uplink/downlink packet loss percentage, uplink/downlink jitter, uplink/downlink latency, and uplink/downlink packet throughput associated with a slice of a network, and may set an uplink value for each of the uplink packet loss percentage, the uplink jitter, the uplink latency, and the uplink packet throughput. The device may multiply the uplink values by corresponding uplink weights to calculate an uplink cost, and may set a downlink value for each of the downlink packet loss percentage, the downlink jitter, the downlink latency, and the downlink packet throughput. The device may multiply the downlink values by corresponding downlink weights to calculate a downlink cost, and may calculate a total cost based on the uplink cost and the downlink cost. The device may cause another slice, with the same attributes as the slice, to be instantiated when the total cost satisfies a threshold for a time period.

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