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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hendrikus G. P. Bosch, Aalsmeer, NL;
Humberto J. La Roche, Ocean, NJ (US);
Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Andover, MA (US);
Sape Jurri{hacek over (e)}n Mullender, Amsterdam, NL;
Timothy P. Stammers, Raleigh, NC (US);
Konstantin Livanos, Naperville, IL (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving, by a mobility management frontend, an attach request for a user equipment (UE) to attach the UE to a core network slice type for a mobile core Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure, wherein a plurality of core network slice types are available for the mobile core SDN infrastructure to receive traffic from a plurality of UEs; determining a particular core network slice type within the mobile core SDN infrastructure to serve the UE based on subscriber information associated with the UE; selecting a particular slice instance of the particular core network slice type to receive traffic for the UE; and forwarding traffic for the UE between a Radio Access Network (RAN) and the particular slice instance by the mobility management frontend.