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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Boost Subscriberco L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Julio Armenta, Aldie, VA (US);
Mehdi Alasti, Reston, VA (US);
Kazi Bashir, Lewisville, TX (US);
Siddhartha Chenumolu, Ashburn, VA (US);
Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for scaling energy consumption in wireless network infrastructure, while retaining the ability to quickly scale when load changes. This end is accomplished by using containerized (or virtualized) applications to implement 5G core Network Functions, and utilizing network redundancy/geo-redundancy or a multihoming transport protocol for communication between these containerized (or virtualized) applications and other 5G system elements such as the network functions of the Radio Access Nodes (RANs) or the network functions of 5G Core. In particular, one or more core Network Functions (NFs) are instantiated as containerized applications executing on one or more virtualized hosts in a cloud-native orchestration environment. The containers are selectively activated or deactivated based on a demand for utilization of the associated NF. Because elements of the 5G RAN, 5G Core and one or more NFs are connected to one another via a protocol that supports network redundancy and/or geo-redundancy and/or multihoming, endpoint addressing need not be reconfigured when demand on the NFs changes.