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Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2021
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Suliman Albasheir, Sammamish, WA (US);

Muhammad Waqar Afzal, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/24 (2022.01); H04L 41/147 (2022.01); H04L 43/02 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04L 41/147 (2013.01); H04L 43/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Bandwidth-dependent selection of a packet routing node (e.g., user plane function (UPF) for 5G, packet data network gateway user plane function (PGW-U) for 4G) includes determining, for each of a plurality of packet routing nodes, a bandwidth capacity to an access network (e.g., a radio access node); receiving a request for a data traffic session; determining whether the data traffic session comprises a bandwidth priority; identifying a subset of the plurality of packet routing nodes having a higher bandwidth capacity than others of the plurality (e.g., the packet routing node having the highest capacity, or the top percentage); based on at least determining that the data traffic session comprises a bandwidth priority data traffic session, selecting a packet routing node for the data traffic session from the subset; and establishing the data traffic session through the selected packet routing node.


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