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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2018
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Ronald R. Marquardt, Woodinville, WA (US);
Arun Rajagopal, Leawood, KS (US);
Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A wireless network slice controller instructs a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) system to implement a Network Service Descriptor (NSD) for a network slice. The NFV MANO system directs an NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) to execute NFV Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) for the network slice based on the NSD. The slice controller instructs a slice oracle to start a distributed ledger for the network slice. The slice oracle launches a distributed ledger for the network slice. The slice controller instructs access points to serve user devices for the network slice. The access points, NFVI, and VNFs serve the user devices. The slice oracle receives slice data from the access points, the NFVI, and the VNFs and transfers the slice data to the distributed ledger. The distributed ledger forms a consensus for the slice data and stores the slice data for the network slice.