Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, terminal, and non-transitory medium
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsSatoru ISHII, Hideo Hasegawa, Shintaro Nakano
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Abstract
A data center adapted to connect via a first wide area network to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN, variably controls service provided in a virtual core network of the data center to a terminal enabled to select connection to either a wireless LAN or a base station and connect to the data center.
Claims20
A communication system including
- a data center adapted to connect via a first wide area network to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN (Local Area Network),
- wherein the data center includes:
- a virtual core network that virtualizes at least a part of functions of the core network and is adapted to connect to the first wide area w
- a control apparatus that variably controls a service provided by the virtual core network to a terminal enabled to select connection to either the wireless LAN or the base station and connect to the data center, in accordance with a network connected between the terminal and the first wide area network.
A communication apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus adapted to connect via a first wide area network to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN (Local Area Network);
- a virtual core network that virtualizes at least a part of functions of the core network and is adapted to connect to the first wide area network;
- and
- a control apparatus that variably controls a service provided by the virtual core network to a terminal enabled to select connection to either the wireless LAN or the base station and connect to the data center, in accordance with a network connected between the terminal and the first wide area network.
A communication method by a data center that is adapted to connect to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) through a first wide area network (Wide Area Network),
- providing a virtual core network that virtualizes at least a part of functions of the core network and is adapted to connect to the first wide area network;
- and
- variably controlling a service provided by the virtual core network to a terminal enabled to select connection to either the wireless LAN or the base station, and that connects to the data center, in accordance with a network connected between the terminal and the first wide area network.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing therein a program causing a computer arranged in a data center adapted to connect via a first wide area network to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) to execute processing comprising;
- operating a virtual core network that virtualizes at least a part of functions of the core network and is adapted to connect to the first wide area network;
- and
- variably controlling a service provided by the virtual core network to a terminal enabled to select connection to either the wireless LAN or the base station and connect to the data center, in accordance with a network connected between the terminal and the first wide area network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.