Resource based framework to support service programmability for a 5G or other next generation mobile core network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsQingmin Hu, Brian Daly
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Abstract
A programmable network architecture that employs a software based, modular functional infrastructure with standard interfaces is utilized for mobile core networks. In one aspect, network services and/or functions can be built and addressed as resources that are configured and/or accessed with standard and/or open application program interfaces (APIs). The disclosed network architecture provides real-time and on-demand network configurations and dynamic service provisioning.
Claims20
A network device of a communication network, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- addressing control-plane network functions, associated with a control-plane of the communication network, as resources;
- in response to receiving, from a user equipment, a request for a network service:
- determining that there is not a matching resource of the resources that is able to perform the network service;
- and
- creating a new resource that is able to perform the network service, the new resource being created from a subset of the resources;
- determining access data that comprises memory location data associated with new resource;
- and
- directing, to the user equipment, the access data that comprises the memory location data associated with the new resource.
A method, comprising:
- representing, by a network device of a communication network that comprises a processor, control-plane functions of the communication network, as resources;
- receiving, by the network device from a user equipment, request data indicative of a request for a network service;
- based on the request data:
- determining, by the network device, that there is not a matching resource of the resources that is able to perform the network service;
- and
- generating, by the network device, a new resource that is able to perform the network service, the new resource being generated from a subset of the resources;
- and
- directing, by the network device, memory information to the user equipment that allows the user equipment to access a memory location associated with the new resource.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a network device of a communication network, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- representing control-plane services of the communication network as resources that comprise respective application programming interface enabled resource agents that facilitate a management of the resources;
- receiving, from a user equipment, request data indicative of a request for a network service;
- based on the request data:
- determining, by the network device, that there is not a matching resource of the resources that is able to perform the network service;
- and
- creating a new resource that is able to perform the network service, the new resource being created from a subset of the resources;
- and
- facilitating a transfer of memory information to the user equipment, wherein the memory information is to be utilized to allow the user equipment to access a memory location associated with the new resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.