INTELLIGENT CONNECTIONLESS ARCHITECTURE FOR MASSIVE INTERNET-OF-THINGS (mIoT) IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

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:

• receiving a service request relating to a massive Internet-of-Things (mIoT) application;
• identifying end-to-end (E2E) service delivery requirements for the service request, resulting in identified requirements;
• obtaining information from a plurality of network controllers regarding resources in a plurality of networks associated with the plurality of network controllers;
• based on the identified requirements and the information, selecting at least one treatment function and a plurality of resources in the plurality of networks;
• generating a segment router header (SRH) that identifies the at least one treatment function and the plurality of resources;
• and
• transmitting the SRH to a first network controller of the plurality of network controllers, wherein the transmitting causes the first network controller to instruct a first resource of the plurality of resources to add the SRH to packets relating to the mIoT application so as to enable connectionless E2E service delivery for the mIoT application.

A method, comprising:

• providing, by a processing system including a processor, and to a service management and orchestration (SMO) system, information regarding resources in one or more networks;
• based on the providing, receiving, by the processing system and from the SMO system, a segment router header (SRH) that identifies at least one treatment function and a plurality of resources,
• wherein the plurality of resources includes one or more resources in the one or more networks and one or more other resources in one or more other networks,
• wherein the at least one treatment function is implemented in the processing system or another processing system, and
• wherein the SRH is generated by the SMO system according to the information and according to service requirements and feature requirements for a service request relating to a massive Internet-of-Things (mIoT) application;
• and
• responsive to the receiving, instructing, by the processing system, a first resource of the plurality of resources to embed the SRH into packets relating to the mIoT application, thereby enabling connectionless end-to-end (E2E) service delivery for the mIoT application.