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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2022
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Suliman Albasheir, Sammamish, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
An orchestration tool determines optimal user plane function (UPF) positioning by using edge nodes as proxy for UPF performance prediction. A disclosed solution includes: using a plurality of edge nodes as proxies to predict performance of a UPF, which has not yet been built, for routing data packets to a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) from locations of each of the plurality of edge nodes; selecting, by an orchestrator, a first edge node location; and generating, by the orchestrator, an alert indicating selection of the first edge node location. A first UPF will be built at the first edge node location although, in some examples, upon further monitoring, the orchestrator may determine that the second edge node location will outperform the first edge node location, resulting in the UPF moving to the second edge node location. In some examples, performance criteria depend on traffic type (e.g., real-time gaming).