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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2020
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Suliman Albasheir, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rahul Pal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Renton, WA (US);
Muhammad Waqar Afzal, Bellevue, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A telecommunication network associated with a wireless telecommunication provider can be configured to select user-plane functions (UPFs) for a user equipment (UE) in a network, and the handover of subscriber sessions. According to some configurations, a nearest UPF to the UE can be picked to service the UE. Choosing the nearest UPF may reduce latency to the UE when sending and receiving packets through a cellular network, such as a 5G network. Subscriber sessions can be handed over across multiple UPFs based on mobility of the UE. Subscriber sessions may be anchored on UPFs located either on edge locations or centralized data centers. Because of mobility of subscribers from a first location (e.g., x) to a second location (e.g., y), a subscriber's session can be moved from one user plane node to another user plane node seamlessly.