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US 11,310,678 B2Granted
Methods and systems for linking a distributed unit and virtual machine in a wireless communications network
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsAnand Bedekar, Kevin Dombkowski
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Abstract
Provided is a central server, including a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to receive a physical location of a distributed unit; generate a list of one or more measurement servers based on the physical location; and send the list of one or more measurement servers to the distributed unit.
Claims20
A central server, comprising:
- a memory storing computer-readable instructions;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to,
- receive a physical location of a distributed unit;
- generate a list of one or more measurement servers from a plurality of measurement servers based on the physical location of the distributed unit, the plurality of measurement servers each associated with an edge cloud zone of a plurality of edge cloud zones, each edge cloud zone of the plurality of the edge cloud zones including at least one measurement server of the plurality of measurement servers and at least one central unit of a plurality of central units;
- and
- send the list of one or more measurement servers to the distributed unit, the sending of the list of one or more measurement servers causing the distributed unit to communicate with each of the one or more measurement servers.
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A distributed unit, comprising:
- a memory storing computer-readable instructions;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to,
- send a physical location of the distributed unit to a central server;
- receive a list of one or more measurement servers from the central server based on the physical location of the distributed unit, the one or more measurement servers selected from a plurality of measurement servers each associated with an edge cloud zone of a plurality of edge cloud zones, each edge cloud zone of the plurality of edge cloud zones including at least one measurement server of the plurality of measurement servers and at least one central unit of a plurality of central units;
- communicate with each of the one or more measurement servers;
- obtain one or more internet Protocol (IP) transport performance parameters associated with each of the one or more measurement servers based on the communications;
- send the one or more IP transport performance parameters to the central server;
- receive one or more addresses corresponding to one or more central units from the central server based on the one or more IP transport performance parameters;
- and
- establish an F1 connection with the one or more central units using the one or more addresses.
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A method performed by a central server, comprising:
- receiving a physical location of a distributed unit;
- generating a list of one or more measurement servers from a plurality of measurement servers based on the physical location of the distributed unit, the plurality of measurement servers each associated with an edge cloud zone of a plurality of edge cloud zones, each edge cloud zone of the plurality of edge cloud zones including at least one measurement server of the plurality of measurement servers and at least one central unit of a plurality of central units;
- and
- sending the list of one or more measurement servers to the distributed unit, the sending of the list of one or more measurement servers causing the distributed unit to communicate with each of the one or more measurement servers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.