US 11,456,929 B2 · Control plane entity and management plane entity for exchaning network slice instance data for analytics

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to End-to-End (E2E) Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for strict E2E performance requirements in 5G networks including Network Slices (NSs) or Network Sub Slices (NSSs). The present disclosure provides a a control plane entity for obtaining NS Instance (NSI) data for analytics from a management plane entity, and a management plane entity to provide NSI data to a control plane entity. The control plane entity is configured to request NSI topology information from the management plane entity, obtain at least one first set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or at least one set of measurements, and generate the data for analytics based on the requested NSI topology information and at least one of the obtained first set of KPIs or the obtained one at least one set of measurements.

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Dependent claims

A control plane entity for obtaining Network Slice Instance (NSI) data for analytics from a management plane entity, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to
request NSI topology information from the management plane entity, wherein the NSI topology information comprises information associated with one or more paths within an NSI;
obtain at least one first set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or at least one set of measurements, and
generate the NSI data for analytics based on the requested NSI topology information comprising information associated with the one or more paths within the NSI and at least one of the at least one first set of KPIs or the at least one set of measurements.

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A management plane entity for providing Network Slice Instance (NSI) data to a control plane entity, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to
collect or request, from a Virtualization or Transport Network Management entities, a first set of measurements related to links connecting entities within an NSI from an Access Network (AN) to a termination point towards a Data Network (DN) and information about virtualized network functions (NFs) within the NSI,
collect a second set of measurements related to a User Plane Network Function (UPF) from the UPF,
collect a third set of measurements related to an AN from the AN, and
expose the first, the second, and the third set of measurements to the control plane entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Control plane entity and management plane entity for exchaning network slice instance data for analytics

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Control plane entity and management plane entity for exchaning network slice instance data for analytics

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Abstract

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