Domain name system (DNS) translations for co-located Gateway User Planes in wireless communication networks

A wireless communication network to serve User Equipment (UE) over co-located Access Gateway User Planes (AGW-Us) and External Gateway User Planes (EGW-Us), the wireless communication network comprising:

• a Gateway Control Plane (GW-C) configured to receive a session request for the UE from an Access Point (AP) that is wirelessly serving the UE, transfer an AGW-U request that has network data and the AP Identifier (ID), receive an AGW-U response that indicates a translation fault for the AP ID, and responsively transfer a translation fault notice that indicates a Tracking Area Identity (TAI) for the UE;
• a translation controller configured to receive the translation fault notice and transfer a translation request that has the TAI for the UE;
• a Domain Name System (DNS) configured to receive the translation request, translate the TAI into AGW-U IDs and EGW-U IDs, and transfer a translation response that indicates the AGW-U IDs and the EGW-U IDs;
• the translation controller configured to receive the translation response, process the AGW-U IDs and the EGW-U IDs with network topology data, determine a co-located group of the AGW-Us and the EGW-Us, and add a location ID to the AGW-U IDs and the EGW-U IDs in the co-located group;
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• the translation controller configured to generate translations of the AP ID into the AGW-U IDs and of the AGW-U IDs into the EGW-U IDs and transfer the translations to the DNS, wherein some of the translations yield ones of the AGW-U IDs and the EGW-U IDs in the co-located group responsive to the network data.