Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-slice support for MEC-enabled 5G deployments
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Application No.: US17430282Application Date: 2020-03-10
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Publication No.: US11700628B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Dario Sabella , Miltiadis Filippou
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/US2020/021914 2020.03.10
- International Announcement: WO2020/185794A 2020.09.17
- Date entered country: 2021-08-11
- Main IPC: H04W72/50
- IPC: H04W72/50 ; H04W28/06 ; H04W36/00

Abstract:
A system configured to track network slicing operations within a 5G communication network includes processing circuitry configured to determine a network slice instance (NSI) associated with a QoS flow of a UE. The NSI communicates data for a network function virtualization (NFV) instance of a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) system within the 5G communication network. Latency information for a plurality of communication links used by the NSI is retrieved. The plurality of communication links includes a first set of non-MEC communication links associated with a radio access network (RAN) of the 5G communication network and a second set of MEC communication links associated with the MEC system. A slice configuration policy is generated based on the retrieved latency information and slice-specific attributes of the NSI. Network resources of the 5G communication network used by the NSI are reconfigured based on the generated slice configuration policy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220086864A1 MULTI-SLICE SUPPORT FOR MEC-ENABLED 5G DEPLOYMENTS Public/Granted day:2022-03-17
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