US 9,882,742 B2 · Control of long term evolution (LTE) virtual network elements based on radio network tunnels

Abstract

A data communication network controls the amounts of virtual network elements it uses. A control system processes user data packets from multiple wireless base stations to determine amounts of user data packet tunnels for a plurality of Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels. The control system processes the amounts of the user data packet tunnels for the QoS levels to identify a target amount of virtual packet gateways to serve the user data packet tunnels. A virtual network element system implements the target amount of the virtual packet gateways to serve the user data packet tunnels at the QoS levels with the virtual packet gateways.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method of operating a data communication network to control amounts of virtual network elements, the method comprising:

the data communication network processing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) user data packets from multiple wireless base stations to determine amounts of user data packet tunnels for each of a plurality of Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels;
the data communication network processing the amounts of the user data packet tunnels for each of the QoS levels to identify a target amount of virtual Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) servers to serve the user data packet tunnels;
the data communication network implementing the target amount of the virtual IMS servers to serve the user data packet tunnels;
and
the data communication network serving the user data packet tunnels at the QoS levels with the virtual IMS servers.

2 more elements

A data communication network to control amounts of virtual network elements, the data communication network comprising:

a control system with processing circuitry and data communication interfaces that are configured to process Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) user data packets from multiple wireless base stations to determine amounts of user data packet tunnels for each of a plurality of Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels and to process the amounts of the user data packet tunnels for each of the QoS levels to identify a target amount of virtual Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) servers to serve the user data packet tunnels;
and
a network element system with processing circuitry and data communication interfaces that are configured to implement the target amount of the virtual IMS servers to serve the user data packet tunnels at the QoS levels with the virtual IMS servers.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/266,080Filed 15 Sep 2016 · continuation

Priority

11 Mar 2014

Published

US 2017/0005834 A15 Jan 2017

Granted

30 Jan 2018

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04W 76/22
Manipulation of established connections: manipulation of transport tunnels
H04L 12/4675
Virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN]: dynamic sharing of VLAN information amongst network nodes
H04L 45/52
Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: multiprotocol routers
H04L 65/1016
Architectures or entities: iP multimedia subsystem [IMS]

Family

Application14/204,192Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Mar 2014

US 2017/0005834 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Jan 2017

US 9,473,385 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2015/0263931 A1Published application

US 9,882,742 B2This patent

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Control of long term evolution (LTE) virtual network elements based on radio network tunnels

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Control of long term evolution (LTE) virtual network elements based on radio network tunnels

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Abstract

Claims16