Intersection of on-demand network slicing and content delivery
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsDiwakar Gupta, Kiran Kumar Edara, Igor A. Kostic, Kaixiang Hu, Shane Ashley Hall
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments relating to an intersection of on-demand network slicing and content delivery. In one embodiment, in response to an application programming interface (API) request, a network slice is provisioned with a quality-of-service requirement in a radio-based network having a radio access network and an associated core network. Also in response to the API request, a transfer of content to a content delivery service at an edge location in the radio-based network is initiated in order to meet the quality-of-service requirement for the network slice.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a radio-based network including a radio access network and associated core network, wherein applications utilize respective network slices of the radio-based network to send and/or receive network traffic;
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- a program configured to at least:
- receive a request from an application executed in a client device to provision a network slice on the radio-based network, the network slice having a quality-of-service requirement for a session of the application;
- determine that operation of the application requires transfer of network-sensitive content via the network slice;
- determine that the network slice would not meet the quality-of-service requirement without providing the network-sensitive content at an edge location in the radio-based network;
- and
- initiate a transfer of the network-sensitive content to a content delivery service at the edge location in the radio-based network in order to meet the quality-of-service requirement for the network slice.
A method, comprising:
- provisioning, via at least one computing device in response to an application programming interface (API) request, that a network slice with a quality-of-service requirement in a radio-based network having a radio access network and an associated core network;
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- initiating, via the at least one computing device in response to the API request, a transfer of content to a content delivery service at an edge location in the radio-based network in order to meet the quality-of-service requirement for the network slice.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a network slice allocation service executable in the at least one computing device, wherein when executed the network slice allocation service causes the at least one computing device to at least:
- receive a request to create a network slice with a quality-of-service requirement for an application executed in a client device in a radio-based network having a radio access network and an associated core network;
- determine a service with which the application will communicate using the network slice;
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- provision computing resources for the service in the radio-based network in order to meet the quality-of-service requirement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.