Feasibility check for network slice instantiation
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsAndrea Fendt, Borislava Gajic, Christian Mannweiler, Lars Christoph Schmelz
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Abstract
It is provided a method, comprising qualitatively checking if an infrastructure provides all features required to fulfill a request to set up a network slice instance; quantitatively checking if an available capacity of the infrastructure is sufficient to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance; inhibiting the quantitative checking if, according to the qualitative checking, the infrastructure does not provide all the features required to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance.
Claims13
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, said at least one memory and computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- check qualitatively if an infrastructure provides all features required to fulfill a request to set up a network slice instance;
- check quantitatively if an available capacity of the infrastructure is sufficient to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance;
- and
- inhibit the quantitative checking if, according to the qualitative checking, the infrastructure does not provide all the features required to fulfill the request to set up the network slice instance.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, said at least one memory and computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- check quantitatively if an available capacity of an infrastructure is sufficient to fulfill a request to set up a network slice instance and for calculating a confidence value of a result of the checking;
- and
- provide a confidence value specifying a confidence of the result of the quantitative checking.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code, said at least one memory and computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- query a network capacity of a network from the network;
- store an indication of the network capacity received in response to the querying;
- monitor if a request to provide an indication of the network capacity is received;
- and
- respond to the request by providing the stored indication of the network capacity if the request is received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.