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US 12,696,104 B2Granted
Systems and methods to enable programmable xHaul transport
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsKristen Sydney Young, Kalyani Bogineni
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Abstract
A device may include a processor configured to receive wireless communication network policies from an orchestration system. The device may be further configured to receive a notification from a radio access network (RAN) central unit (CU) that a packet data unit (PDU) session has been set up in the RAN, wherein the notification includes information associated with the PDU session; identify a programmable switch associated with the PDU session; select a policy, from the plurality of wireless communication network policies, based on the information associated with the PDU session; and configure the programmable switch to apply the selected policy to the PDU session.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device, a plurality of wireless communication network policies from an orchestration system;
- sending, by the device, a subscription request to a radio access network (RAN) central unit (CU) to receive notifications relating to Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions set up by the RAN CU, wherein the RAN CU is located in the RAN;
- receiving, by the device, a notification from the RAN CU that a PDU session has been set up in the RAN, wherein the notification includes information associated with the PDU session, based on the sent subscription request;
- identifying, by the device, a programmable transport network switch located in the RAN, wherein the programmable transport network switch is associated with the PDU session, and wherein the programmable transport network switch is located along an xHaul connection in the RAN;
- selecting, by the device, a policy, from the plurality of wireless communication network policies, based on the information associated with the PDU session;
- and
- configuring, by the device, the programmable transport network switch to apply the selected policy to the PDU session along the xHaul connection in the RAN.
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The method of claim of 1, wherein the selected policy includes at least one of:
- a Class of Service (CoS) policy,
- a mobility management policy,
- a security policy,
- a policy to collect values for a particular key performance indicator (KPI),
- a Self-Optimizing Network (SON) policy, or
- or a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) policy.
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A device comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- receive a plurality of wireless communication network policies from an orchestration system;
- send a subscription request to a radio access network (RAN) central unit (CU) to receive notifications relating to Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions set up by the RAN CU, wherein the RAN CU is located in the RAN;
- receive a notification from the RAN CU that a PDU session has been set up in the RAN, wherein the notification includes information associated with the PDU session, based on the sent subscription request;
- identify a programmable transport network switch located in the RAN, wherein the programmable transport network switch is associated with the PDU session, wherein the programmable transport network switch is located along an xHaul connection in the RAN;
- select a policy, from the plurality of wireless communication network policies, based on the information associated with the PDU session;
- and
- configure the programmable transport network switch to apply the selected policy to the PDU session along the xHaul connection in the RAN.
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A system comprising:
- a radio access network (RAN) central unit (CU), located in the RAN, configured to:
- receive a request to set up a protocol data unit (PDU) session from a core network device;
- and
- set up the PDU session in the RAN based on the received request;
- and
- a switch controller configured to:
- receive a plurality of wireless communication network policies from an orchestration system;
- send a subscription request to the RAN CU to receive notifications relating to PDU sessions set up by the RAN CU;
- receive a notification from the RAN CU that the PDU session has been set up in the RAN, wherein the notification includes information associated with the PDU session, based on the sent subscription request;
- identify a programmable transport network switch located in the RAN, wherein the programmable transport network switch is associated with the PDU session, wherein the programmable transport network switch is located along an xHaul connection in the RAN;
- select a policy, from the plurality of wireless communication network policies, based on the information associated with the PDU session;
- and
- configure the programmable transport network switch to apply the selected policy to the PDU session along the xHaul connection in the RAN.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.