SDR-based massive MIMO with V-RAN cloud architecture and SDN-based network slicing

A telecommunications network comprising:

• at least one core network interface for providing interconnection to a core network;
• at least one base station for providing communications to at least one user device;
• at least one server defining a configurable network interconnecting the at least one core network interface and the base station;
• wherein the at least one server defines logically independent network slicing for the configurable network that selects a first network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a first application and selects a second network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a second application;
• and
• wherein the at least one server implements a radio access network (RAN) that has a first configuration responsive to use of the first application by the configurable network and a second configuration responsive to use of the second application by the configurable network.

A telecommunications network comprising:

• at least one core network interface for providing interconnection to a core network;
• at least one base station for providing communications to at least one user device;
• at least one server defining a configurable network interconnecting the at least one core network interface and the base station;
• wherein the at least one server defines logically independent network slicing for the configurable network that selects a first network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a first application and selects a second network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a second application;
• wherein the at least one server comprises a cloud data center for implementing the first application and the second application;
• wherein the at least one server provides a data center based cloud architecture to support the first network slice when the first application is selected and the second network slice when the second application is selected;
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• wherein the at least one server implements software defined radio based coordinated multipoint massive MIMO.

A method for providing a telecommunications network comprising:

• providing interconnection to a core network through at least one core network interface;
• providing communications to at least one user device through at least one base station;
• interconnecting the at least one core network interface and the base station through a configurable network implemented by at least one server;
• defining logically independent network slicing for the configurable network through the at least one server;
• selecting a first network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a first application;
• selecting a second network slice responsive to use of the configurable network by a second application;
• and
• providing a data center based cloud architecture to support the first network slice when the first application is selected and the second network slice with the second application is selected.