5G OpenRAN controller
AssigneeParallel Wireless, Inc.
InventorsRajesh Kumar Mishra, Eugina Jordan
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Abstract
A device, method and software are presented for a 5G OpenRAN controller. In one embodiment the 5G OpenRAN controller includes an interface for an EPC virtualization stack; an interface for a radio virtualization stack; a software suite executing on the 5G OpenRAN controller; and wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller virtualizes existing cells into a pool of virtualized resources that can be allocated dynamically and virtualizes multiple cores into a pool of resources for multi-technology RANs and presents them as standard interfaces to a packet core.
Claims20
A 5G OpenRAN controller, comprising:
- a 5th generation core (5GC) and evolved packet core (EPC) virtualization stack interface for virtualizing core resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- a radio virtualization stack interface for virtualizing radio resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- and
- a slice pairing function executing on the 5G OpenRAN controller,
- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized radio access network (RAN) resources that can be allocated dynamically, the pool of virtualized RAN resources simultaneously including virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G standalone network architecture and virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G non-standalone network architecture;
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- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized core resources for supporting at least two radio access technologies, and
- wherein the slice pairing function connects a virtualized RAN resource and a virtualized core resource to create a network slice, thereby providing any-G network slicing.
A method of operating a 5G OpenRAN controller, comprising:
- providing an interface for a 5th generation core (5GC) and an evolved packet core (EPC) virtualization stack interface for virtualizing core resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- providing an interface for a radio virtualization stack for virtualizing radio resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- and
- providing a slice pairing function on the 5G OpenRAN controller,
- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized radio access network (RAN) resources that can be allocated dynamically, the pool of virtualized RAN resources simultaneously including virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G standalone network architecture and virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G non-standalone network architecture;
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- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized core resources for supporting at least two radio access technologies, and
- wherein the slice pairing function connects a virtualized RAN resource and a virtualized core resource to create a network slice, thereby providing any-G network slicing.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for operating a 5G OpenRAN controller which, when executed, cause the OpenRAN controller to perform steps comprising:
- providing an interface for a 5th generation core (5GC) and an evolved packet core (EPC) virtualization stack interface for virtualizing core resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- providing an interface for a radio virtualization stack interface for virtualizing radio resources having distinct technology characteristics;
- and
- providing a slice pairing function on the 5G OpenRAN controller,
- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized radio access network (RAN) resources that can be allocated dynamically, the pool of virtualized RAN resources simultaneously including virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G standalone network architecture and virtualized RAN resources supporting a 5G non-standalone network architecture;
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- wherein the 5G OpenRAN controller provides a pool of virtualized core resources for supporting at least two radio access technologies, and
- wherein the slice pairing function connects a virtualized RAN resource and a virtualized core resource to create a network slice, thereby providing any-G network slicing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.