Systems and methods for designing a slice infrastructure

A device, comprising:

• one or more processors, configured to:
• receive a service profile for a network slice of a network,
• wherein the service profile includes a plurality of service characterizations of the network slice;
• select, for the plurality of service characterizations, based on one or more selection rules, a building block from a plurality of building blocks, to obtain selected building blocks,
• wherein one or more selection rules map an attribute of a service characterization, of the plurality of service characterizations, to the building block,
• wherein the attribute comprises an indication of whether the network slice shares the attribute with another network slice;
• stack, based on one or more stacking rules, the selected building blocks, to obtain a slice infrastructure for the network slice,
• wherein the one or more stacking rules require that a base building block be instantiated before a non-base building block is instantiated;
• replace, based on one or more sharing rules, a particular shareable building block of the slice infrastructure with an instantiated infrastructure of another network slice in the network, to obtain a modified slice infrastructure;
• and
• deploy the modified slice infrastructure for the network slice in the network.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive a service profile for a network slice of a network,
• wherein the service profile includes a plurality of service characterizations of the network slice;
• select, for the plurality of service characterizations, based on one or more selection rules, a building block from a plurality of building blocks, to obtain selected building blocks,
• wherein one or more selection rules map an attribute of a service characterization, of the plurality of service characterizations, to the building block,
• wherein the attribute comprises an indication of whether the network slice shares the attribute with another network slice;
• stack, based on one or more stacking rules, the selected building blocks, to obtain a slice infrastructure for the network slice,
• wherein the one or more stacking rules require that a base building block be instantiated before a non-base building block is instantiated;
• replace, based on one or more sharing rules, a particular shareable building block of the slice infrastructure with an instantiated infrastructure of another network slice in the network, to obtain a modified slice infrastructure;
• and
• deploy the modified slice infrastructure for the network slice in the network.