System and method for access network configuration
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHamidreza Farmanbar, Nimal Gamini Senarath, William Anthony Gage
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Abstract
Methods for configuring user plane functions associated with a network slice. The methods include: creating a user plane configuration profile specific to at least one of an access technology and a user plane function; associating the user plane configuration profile with a network slice instance; selecting the network slice in response to a service request; and communicating the user plane configuration profile associated with the selected network slice instance to a control plane function.
Claims8
A configuration management function comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including software instructions configured to control the at least one processor to implement steps of:
- forwarding, to an access network function (ANF), at least one access network (AN) configuration profile, each AN configuration profile including parameters defining a respective configuration of access network resources and protocols corresponding to a network slice instance;
- and
- forwarding, to a core network function (CNF), information identifying each AN configuration profile for use by the CNF to:
- identify one or more AN configuration profiles associated with a network slice instance selected from a plurality of network slice instances;
- and
- forward to the ANF information comprising a protocol data unit (PDU) session resource setup indication including a respective AN configuration identifier (ANCID) for each of the identified AN configuration profiles.
A core network function comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including software instructions configured to control the at least one processor to implement steps of:
- receiving information identifying, for each one of a plurality of network slice instances, at least one respective access network (AN) configuration profile of an access network;
- identifying one or more of the AN configuration profiles associated with a network slice instance selected from the plurality of network slice instances;
- and
- forwarding, to an access network function, information comprising a protocol data unit (PDU) session resource setup indication including a respective AN configuration identifier (ANCID) for each of the identified one or more AN configuration profiles.
A method comprising:
- a core network function receiving information identifying, for each one of a plurality of network slice instances, at least one respective access network (AN) configuration profile of an access network;
- the core network function identifying one or more of the AN configuration profiles associated with a network slice instance selected from the plurality of network slice instances;
- and
- the core network function forwarding, to an access network function, information comprising a protocol data unit (PDU) session resource setup indication including a respective AN configuration identifier (ANCID) for each of the identified one or more AN configuration profiles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.