Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for resource allocation among network slices
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Application No.: US16651536Application Date: 2017-09-30
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Publication No.: US11290889B2Publication Date: 2022-03-29
- Inventor: Kun Zhao , Lingfeng Lin , Ling Lv , Shaoshuai Fan , Hui Tian , Pengtao Zhao , Zhiqian Huang , Gang Ling , Bi Wang
- Applicant: Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: CN Shanghai
- Assignee: Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: CN Shanghai
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- International Application: PCT/CN2017/105108 WO 20170930
- International Announcement: WO2019/061529 WO 20190404
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W16/02 ; H04L41/0893 ; H04L41/0896 ; H04L41/5051 ; H04W24/02 ; H04W48/18

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for allocating system resources among a plurality of network slices in a communication network. In the communication network, a network device determines utility values of two network slices. A network slice corresponds to a set of network functions of a set of services served thereby. A utility value of the network slice indicates the level of demand for system resources by the set of services associated with the network slice. The network device determines a difference between the utility values of the two network slices. If the difference exceeds a threshold utility value, the network device re-allocates system resources among the plurality of network slices in the communication network. According to the embodiments, the communication network updates the system resources allocated for the plurality of network slices only when the difference between the utility values of the two network slices exceeds a certain threshold. Hence, the complexity of updating system resource allocation among the plurality of network slices may be reduced by the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200267557A1 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AMONG NETWORK SLICES Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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