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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Aleksandr Zelezniak, Morganville, NJ (US);
Kaustubh Joshi, Short Hills, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Described is allocating and deallocating server instances (e.g., comprising baseband unit resources) of a distributed unit based on need for user equipment session handling. For example, when user equipment sessions load a server instance to a threshold capacity, an additional server instance can be allocated to handle new user equipment sessions. Any selected carrier subgroup, which can correspond to a cell's carriers, can be selected for assigning any newly incoming, unassigned user equipment sessions associated with the selected carrier subgroup to the newly allocated, additional server instance. As prior sessions end, the load decreases on the server that had reached the threshold capacity. When the total hub load decreases, deallocation of a no-longer used server instance can be performed. Deallocation can include transferring any remaining session, e.g., long-lasting sessions, to a different server instance. Load balancing and/or resource consolidation, without service interruption, is thus achievable within a hub.