Domain name system (DNS) translations for co-located gateway user planes in wireless communication networks

A wireless communication network to use co-located User Plane Functions (UPFs), the wireless communication network comprising:

• a control-plane function configured to receive a session request for a User Equipment (UE) over a wireless access point that has a wireless access point Identifier (ID) and responsively transfer a co-located UPF request for the wireless access point ID to a naming system;
• the naming system configured to receive the co-located UPF request, and in response, detect a co-location translation fault for the wireless access point ID and transfer the wireless access point ID to a translation controller;
• the translation controller configured to receive the wireless access point ID, and in response, determine a set of the co-located UPFs for the wireless access point and transfer co-location translation information for the wireless access point ID and a set of co-located UPF IDs for the set of co-located UPFs to the naming system;
• the control-plane function configured to receive another session request for another UE over the wireless access point and responsively transfer another co-located UPF request for the wireless access point ID to the naming system;
• the naming system configured to receive the other co-located UPF request and translate the wireless access point ID into the set of co-located UPF IDs and transfer the set of the co-located UPF IDs to the control-plane function;
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• the control-plane function configured to receive the set of the co-located UPF IDs and signal the set of the co-located UPFs to serve the UE over the wireless access point.