US 2020/0404539 A1 · NETWORK FUNCTION FOR END-TO-END COMMUNICATION SERVICES

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a network function for supporting end-to-end communication services in a communication network, wherein the communication network comprises a first management system for managing a 3GPP 5G subnetwork and a second management system for managing a 3GPP legacy subnetwork and/or a non-3GPP subnetwork. The network function provides an interface between the first management system and the second management system. The first management system and/or the second management system comprises a plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances. The network function also selects one or more of the plurality of network management functions and or network management function instances in response to a service request on the basis of a load balancing requirement, a minimum latency requirement defined by the service request and/or a quality of a service requirement defined by the service request.

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Dependent claims

A method, for providing a network function supporting end-to-end communication services with network slices and communication services without network slices in a communication network, the communication network comprising a first management system managing a 3GPP 5G subnetwork of the communication network and a second management system managing a 3GPP legacy subnetwork and/or a non-3GPP subnetwork of the communication network, the method comprising the steps of:

providing an interface between the first management system and the second management system, wherein the first management system and/or the second management system comprises a plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances;
and
selecting one or more of the plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances in response to a service request based on a load balancing requirement, a minimum latency requirement defined by the service request and/or a quality of a service requirement defiled by the service request.

A communication network for providing end-to-end communication services, including communication services with network slices and communication services without network slices, the communication network comprising:

a first management, system for managing a 3GPP 5G subnetwork of the communication network;
a second management system for managing a 3GPP legacy subnetwork and/or a non-3GPP subnetwork of the communication network;
and
at least one network function supporting the end-to-end communication services, the network function being configured to:
provide an interface between the first management system and the second management system, wherein the first management system and/or the second management system comprises a plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances;
and
select one or more of the plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances in response to a service request based on a load balancing requirement, a minimum latency requirement defined by the service request and/or a quality of a service requirement defined by the service request.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code executing on a computer to cause the computer to perform a network function supporting end-to-end communication services in a communication network, the communication services including communication services with network slices and communication services without network slices, the communication network comprising a first management system for managing a 3GPP 5G subnetwork of the communication network and a second management system for managing a 3GPP legacy subnetwork and/or a non-3GPP subnetwork of the communication network, the network function comprising:

providing an interface between the first management system and the second management system, wherein the first management system and/or the second management system comprises a plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances;
and
selecting one or more of the plurality of network management functions and/or network management function instances by the network function in response to a service request based on a load balancing requirement, a minimum latency requirement defined by the service request and/or a quality of a service requirement defined by the service request.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Network function for end-to-end communication services

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