Northbound intent-based dynamic application interface

A data processing system adapted for northbound intent-based application insertion into a mobile communications network, the system comprising:

• a host computing platform disposed within a central unit (CU) of a software defined network (SDN) architected cellular communications network, the CU comprising a communicative coupling to a multiplicity of different distributed units (DUs), at least one of the DUs comprising a massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna transmitting over millimeter wave frequencies, the platform comprising one or more computers, each comprising memory and at least one processor;
• and,
• a network controller disposed within a control plane defined by the SDN and comprising computer program instructions enabled while executing in the host computing platform to perform:
• receiving in the control plane, a request from a mobile application to be inserted into an application layer of the communications network utilizing different ones of the infrastructure resources of the control plane;
• characterizing the mobile application;
• retrieving a set of recommended ones of the different infrastructure resources for the characterization of the mobile application;
• comparing those of the resources to be utilized by the mobile application to the set of recommended resources in order to identify a variance of resources;
• and,
• provisioning for use by the mobile application in the control plane, the resources to be utilized by the mobile application adjusted by the variance of resources.

A computer program product for northbound intent-based application insertion into a mobile communications network comprising a control plane in which different infrastructure resources are accessible through a northbound application programming interface (API), the computer program product including a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method including:

• receiving in the control plane of the mobile communications network, a request from a mobile application to be inserted into an application layer of the mobile communications network utilizing different ones of the infrastructure resources of the control plane;
• characterizing the mobile application;
• retrieving a set of recommended ones of the different infrastructure resources for the characterization of the mobile application;
• comparing those of the resources to be utilized by the mobile application to the set of recommended resources in order to identify a variance of resources;
• and,
• provisioning for use by the mobile application in the control plane, the resources to be utilized by the mobile application adjusted by the variance of resources.