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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Aaron Paul Hinkle, Centreville, VA (US);
Seng Chai Gan, Ashburn, VA (US);
Khoi Dinh Nguyen, Lenexa, KS (US);
Danmei Wu, Leawood, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A data communication network controls the amounts of virtual network elements it uses. A control system processes user data packets from multiple wireless base stations to determine amounts of user data packet tunnels for a plurality of Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels. The control system processes the amounts of the user data packet tunnels for the QoS levels to identify a target amount of virtual packet gateways to serve the user data packet tunnels. A virtual network element system implements the target amount of the virtual packet gateways to serve the user data packet tunnels at the QoS levels with the virtual packet gateways.