Enabling roaming to a visiting communication network of a wireless terminal belonging to a home communication network

A method, performed by a system of a visiting communication network for enabling roaming to the visiting communication network of a first wireless communication terminal belonging to a home communication network, the method comprising:

• sending, to the home network, an information of a connection attempt from the first terminal at the visiting network;
• receiving a request, from the home network, to deploy virtual network functions reflecting a number of network functions existing in the home network;
• in response to the received deployment request, deploying the virtual network functions in the visiting network and communicating with the home communication network in order to establish a virtual private network between the home network and the visiting network so that the virtual network functions of the visiting network are connected to the network functions of the home network,
• wherein the received request from the home network to deploy the virtual network functions comprises information on needed memory resources and processing capacity in the visiting network for the virtual network functions;
• allocating the needed data resources;
• sending an acknowledgement to the home network that the needed data resources has been allocated,
• receiving from the home network, in response to the sent acknowledgement, an image file containing software for the virtual network functions;
• sending information to the home network that the virtual network functions are deployed for handling the first terminal;
• and
• receiving, in response to the sent information, an acknowledgment from the home network that the home network acknowledges the connection attempt from the first terminal.

A system, operable in a home communication network, for enabling roaming of a first wireless communication terminal belonging to the home communication network to a visiting communication network, the system comprising:

• processing circuitry;
• memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry whereby the system is operative to:
• receive, from the visiting network, an information of a connection attempt from the first terminal at the visiting network;
• detect whether federated cloud roaming is allowed for the first terminal;
• when federated cloud roaming is allowed for the first terminal, send a request to the visiting network to deploy virtual network functions reflecting a number of network functions existing in the home network,
• wherein the request to the visiting network to deploy the virtual network functions comprises information on needed memory resources and processing capacity in the visiting network for the virtual network functions;
• receive an acknowledgement from the visiting network that the needed memory resources and processing capacity have been allocated;
• and send, in response to the received acknowledgement, an image file containing software for the virtual network functions to the visiting network;
• communicate with the visiting network in order to establish a virtual private network between the home network and the visiting network so that the virtual network functions of the visiting network are connected to the network functions of the home network;
• and
• receive information from the visiting network that the virtual network functions are deployed for handling the first terminal;
• send, in response to the received information, an acknowledgment to the visiting network that the home network acknowledges the connection attempt from the first terminal.

A system, operable in a visiting communication network, for enabling roaming to the visiting communication network of a first wireless communication terminal belonging to a home communication network, the system comprising:

• processing circuitry;
• memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry whereby the system is operative to:
• send, to the home network, an information of a connection attempt from the first terminal at the visiting network;
• receive a request from the home network to deploy virtual network functions reflecting a number of network functions existing in the home network;
• in response to the received deployment request, deploy the virtual network functions in the visiting network and communicating with the home communication network in order to establish a virtual private network between the home network and the visiting network so that the virtual network functions of the visiting network are connected to the network functions of the home network,
• wherein the request from the home network to deploy the virtual network functions comprises information on needed memory resources and processing capacity in the visiting network for the virtual network functions;
• allocate the needed data resources;
• send an acknowledgement to the home network that the needed data resources has been allocated;
• receive, in response to the sent acknowledgement, an image file containing software for the virtual network functions, from the home network;
• send information to the home network that the virtual network functions are deployed for handling the first terminal;
• and
• receive, in response to the sent information, an acknowledgment from the home network that the home network acknowledges the connection attempt from the first terminal.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program product for controlling a system of a home communication network for enabling roaming of a first wireless communication terminal belonging to the home communication network to a visiting communication network, the computer program product comprising software instructions which, when run on processing circuitry of the system, causes the system entity to:

• receive, from the visiting network, an information of a connection attempt from the first terminal at the visiting network;
• detect whether federated cloud roaming is allowed for the first terminal;
• when federated cloud roaming is allowed for the first terminal, send a request to the visiting network to deploy virtual network functions reflecting a number of network functions existing in the home network,
• wherein the request to the visiting network to deploy virtual network functions comprises information on needed memory resources and processing capacity in the visiting network for the virtual network functions;
• receive an acknowledgement from the visiting network that the needed memory resources and processing capacity have been allocated;
• in response to the received acknowledgement, sending an image file containing software for the virtual network functions to the visiting network;
• communicate with the visiting network in order to establish a virtual private network between the home network and the visiting network so that the virtual network functions of the visiting network are connected to the network functions of the home network;
• receive information from the visiting network that the virtual network functions are deployed for handling the first terminal;
• and
• send, in response to the received information, an acknowledgment to the visiting network that the home network acknowledges the connection attempt from the first terminal.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program product for controlling system of a visiting communication network for enabling roaming of a first wireless communication terminal belonging to a home communication network to the visiting communication network, the computer program product comprising software instructions which, when run on processing circuitry of the system entity, causes the system to:

• send, to the home network, an information of a connection attempt from the first terminal at the visiting network;
• receive a request from the home network to deploy virtual network functions reflecting a number of network functions existing in the home network,
• in response to the received deployment request, deploy the virtual network functions in the visiting network and communicate with the home communication network in order to establish a virtual private network between the home network and the visiting network so that the virtual network functions of the visiting network are connected to the network functions of the home network,
• wherein the received request from the home network to deploy the virtual network functions comprises information on needed memory resources and processing capacity in the visiting network for the virtual network functions;
• allocating the needed data resources;
• send an acknowledgement to the home network that the needed data resources has been allocated,
• receive from the home network, in response to the sent acknowledgement, an image file containing software for the virtual network functions;
• send information to the home network that the virtual network functions are deployed for handling the first terminal, and
• receive, in response to the sent information, an acknowledgment from the home network that the home network acknowledges the connection attempt from the first terminal.