Radio resource planning and slice-aware scheduling for intelligent radio access network slicing
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJingwen Bai, Shu-ping Yeh, Shilpa Talwar
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a resilient (radio) access network ((R)AN) slicing framework encompassing a resource planning engine and distributed dynamic slice-aware scheduling modules at one or more network access nodes, edge compute nodes, or cloud computing service. The resilient (R)AN slicing framework includes resource planning and slice-aware scheduling, as well as signaling exchanges for provisioning resilient (R)AN slicing. The intelligent (R)AN slicing framework can realize resource isolation in a more efficient and agile manner than existing network slicing technologies.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- memory circuitry to store instructions for operating an intelligent network slice manager;
- and
- processor circuitry connected to the memory circuitry, wherein the processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to:
- collect network performance measurements from one or more data sources;
- generate or update a network slice configuration based on service level agreements (SLAs) for a network slice, the collected network performance measurements, and one or more machine models that are to utilize the collected network performance measurements, wherein the network slice configuration includes a set of network slice parameters that define how a portion of allocated radio resources are to be prioritized for the network slice;
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- send the network slice configuration to a distributed unit (DU), wherein the network slice configuration instructs the DU to provide the network slice according to the set of network slice parameters.
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