Methods, systems, and devices for determining inactivity timer values in mobile networks

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining, by a non-real time radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC), first data traffic information associated with a group of communication devices;
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, a group of traffic clusters based on the first data traffic information;
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, inference information based on the group of traffic clusters;
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, a timer policy associated with the group of communication devices based on the group of traffic clusters;
• and
• providing, by the non-real time RIC, the inference information and the timer policy to a near-real time RIC.

A method comprising:

• obtaining, by a non-real time radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) including a processor, first data traffic information associated with a group of communication devices;
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, a group of traffic clusters based on the first data traffic information utilizing a traffic clustering (TC) rApplication (rApp);
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, inference information based on the group of traffic clusters utilizing the TC rApp;
• generating, by the non-real time RIC, a timer policy associated with the group of communication devices based on the group of traffic clusters utilizing a timer policy (TP) rApp;
• providing, by the non-real time RIC, the inference information and the timer policy to a near-real time RIC;
• obtaining, by the near-real time RIC including a processor, second data traffic information associated with a portion of the group of communication devices;
• associating, by the near-real time RIC, each communication device of the portion of the group of communication devices into a traffic cluster from the group of traffic clusters based on the second data traffic information utilizing a traffic classifier (TC) xApplication (xApp);
• determining, by the near-real time RIC, an inactivity timer value for each communication device of the portion of the group of communication devices resulting a group of inactivity timer values based on the inference information, the timer policy, and the second data traffic information utilizing a timer optimizer (TO) xApp;
• and
• providing, by the near-real time RIC, each of the group of inactivity timer values to each communication device of the portion of the group of communication devices.