Exfo Solutions Sas

Stéphane Lagain

Anwer Al-Dulaimi

Sylvain Nadeau

Fabrice Bonnaud

Systems and methods for managing 5G networks are provided. A method for injecting analytics into a Network Repository Function (NRF) for managing a 5G slice, according to one implementation, includes a first step of obtaining parameters associated with User Plane (UP) traffic and Control Plane (CP) traffic from a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) of a 5G network. The method also includes the step of performing analytics on the obtained parameters to monitor Network Functions (NFs) associated with the 5G network. In addition, the method includes the step of providing results of the analytics to an NRF to control NFs stored in a repository associated with the NRF.

Injecting analytics into network repository function (NRF) for automated management of 5G core

An apparatus, method and computer program is described, comprising: obtaining analytics data from one or more network data analytics functions of a mobile communication system using a probe network function which subscribes to the network data analytics functions; obtaining control plane data from one or more control plane probes, wherein the control plane data comprises signaling between one or more user devices and a network of the mobile communication system; obtaining user plane data from one or more user plane probes; processing the analytics data, control plane data and user plane data, including correlating at least some of said analytics, user plane and control plane data and identifying at least one anomaly in said data; and triggering an active mode to acquire a subset of analytics data related to said at least one anomaly.

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Rennes, France

Stéphane Lagain