Apparatus and method for providing resource management policy in telecommunications system

A method, performed by an application hosted in a radio access network (RAN) Intelligent controller (RIC) within a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework of a telecommunications network, of implementing a resource control mechanism, the method comprising:

• receiving data comprising at least one performance indicator from an Open RAN (O-RAN) centralized unit (O-CU) in an O-Cloud computing environment, wherein the at least one performance indicator comprises a performance indicator of the O-CU;
• comparing the least one performance indicator with a first predetermined threshold;
• receiving and evaluate a resource status of at least one physical host in the O-Cloud computing environment;
• and
• creating a resource management policy for allocating O-Cloud computing resources of the at least one physical host to scale the O-CU in at least one physical location in the O-Cloud computing environment based on the comparing and the evaluating, wherein the at least one physical location is selected from among plural physical locations based on the evaluating, according to location information of the plural physical locations,
• wherein the creating the resource management policy comprises creating the resource management policy based on location information of the at least one physical host, to consider a shortest path to move traffic based on available resources.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium within a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework of a telecommunications network, having recorded thereon instructions executable by at least one processor to perform a method of implementing a resource control mechanism, the method comprising:

• receiving data comprising at least one performance indicator from an Open RAN (O-RAN) centralized unit (O-CU) in an O-Cloud computing environment, wherein the at least one performance indicator comprises a performance indicator of the O-CU;
• comparing the least one performance indicator with a first predetermined threshold;
• receiving and evaluate a resource status of at least one physical host in the O-Cloud computing environment;
• and
• creating a resource management policy for allocating O-Cloud computing resources of the at least one physical host to scale the O-CU in at least one physical location in the O-Cloud computing environment based on the comparing and the evaluating, wherein the at least one physical location is selected from among plural physical locations based on the evaluating, according to location information of the plural physical locations,
• wherein the creating the resource management policy comprises creating the resource management policy based on location information of the at least one physical host, to consider a shortest path to move traffic based on available resources.