METHOD FOR PREDICTIVELY OPERATING A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230239727A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-27

    申请号:US18156420

    申请日:2023-01-19

    IPC分类号: H04W28/02 H04W28/26

    CPC分类号: H04W28/0268 H04W28/26

    摘要: A method for operating a communication network includes: receiving, by a business support system of a resource reservation system, a reservation request, the reservation request indicating a Quality of Service (QoS) for an upcoming connection to be provided at a time distance from a reservation by the communication network for a terminal device and an application or service accessed by the terminal device via the upcoming connection; checking, by a bookkeeper decision engine of the resource reservation system, whether the business support system has availability for the indicated QoS; in response to confirming the availability for the indicated QoS, sending, by the bookkeeper decision engine, a reservation confirmation; and providing, by the communication network, the upcoming connection with the indicated QoS assigned for the terminal device at the time distance from the reservation.

    Configuring an SDR capable user equipment

    公开(公告)号:US11706703B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-18

    申请号:US17771832

    申请日:2020-10-28

    IPC分类号: H04W48/16 H04B1/00

    CPC分类号: H04W48/16 H04B1/0003

    摘要: In a method for configuring a Software Defined Radio (SDR) capable user equipment, the SDR capable user equipment wirelessly loads an SDR program from a radio access network. The SDR capable user equipment executes the loaded SDR program, the SDR program on execution configuring the SDR capable user equipment to support a desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment loads the SDR program using a dedicated SDR configuration channel, the dedicated SDR configuration channel being disjoint with any communication channel defined by the desired wireless communication technology. The SDR capable user equipment scans a predetermined frequency spectrum searching a broadcasted beacon. The SDR capable user equipment receives the broadcasted beacon and tunes to the dedicated SDR configuration channel or a subchannel thereof pointed to by a pointer for loading the SDR program.

    Emulation functionality between a first mobile communication network and a second mobile communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11641694B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-02

    申请号:US17367449

    申请日:2021-07-05

    摘要: A method for an emulation functionality between a first mobile communication network and a second mobile communication network includes: implementing, by an emulation function and its first and second interfaces using a respective plurality of emulated network functions or services and emulated network elements, an exchange of messages between the first and second mobile communication networks, thereby mapping between equivalent capabilities or needs of respective network functions or services and respective network elements and providing for: implementation of first individual interfaces or first individual interface types between the network functions or services and respective corresponding emulated network functions or services in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs); and implementation of second individual interfaces or second individual interface types between the network elements and respective corresponding emulated network elements in the form of network standard-specific interfaces or protocols.

    Techniques for policy management of multi-connectivity network protocols

    公开(公告)号:US11582143B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US16975412

    申请日:2019-02-21

    IPC分类号: H04L45/24 H04L69/14

    摘要: A multipath device for processing multipath data traffic includes: a multipath network access interface comprising at least one access interface for receiving multipath data traffic; and a host processor configured to operate at least one multi-connectivity network protocol and a multipath protocol policy manager (MPPM). The at least one multi-connectivity network protocol is configured to process data traffic of the multipath data traffic that is related to the at least one multi-connectivity network protocol and received via multiple paths of the multipath network access interface. The MPPM is configured to manage the multiple paths of the multipath network access interface and/or the at least one access interface of the multipath network access interface according to a multipath network protocol policy. The multipath network protocol policy depends on feedback from other multi-connectivity network protocols running on the host processor.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A QUANTUM SECURED ENCRYPTION KEY

    公开(公告)号:US20220321333A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17706631

    申请日:2022-03-29

    IPC分类号: H04L9/08

    摘要: A method includes a preparation step and a key agreement step. In the preparation step, a first quantum key distribution (QKD) device at a first location and a second QKD device at a second location distant from the first location together create a quantum secured key according to a QKD protocol, and a first encryption device at the first location and a second encryption device at the second location together create a symmetrically encrypted channel between the first location and the second location using the quantum secured key. In the key agreement step, a first key agreement device at the first location and a second key agreement device at the second location together create an encryption key via the symmetrically encrypted channel.

    Techniques for controlling computational resources of a radio access network

    公开(公告)号:US11463911B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17251290

    申请日:2019-06-03

    摘要: A radio access system includes: a set of radio access entities, in particular a set of gNBs and/or ng-eNBs, which are interconnected via respective first interfaces; and a centralized resource controller. Each radio access entity of the set of radio access entities comprises a centralized unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU) coupled to the CU via a second interface. The centralized resource controller configured to assign computational resources to the CUs and the DUs of the radio access entities based on measurement reports received via the first interfaces and/or the second interfaces from the respective units, wherein the measurement reports comprise information about a computational resource utilization of the respective units.

    Operation and architecture of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network

    公开(公告)号:US11456916B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US17422454

    申请日:2020-01-15

    摘要: A central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: access network facing nodes; and a control function and/or a switching fabric and/or service edge nodes. Execution of network attachment tasks and/or further functional or configuration tasks within the central office point of delivery involves using an execution state database as well as stateless execution service functionalities being assigned to different execution stages realized within the central office point of delivery, and a message bus connecting the different execution stages, wherein the execution stages comprise at least an access stage, a processing stage, and a device stage, wherein the execution service functionalities—in order to process or execute the network attachment tasks and/or further functional or configuration tasks—generate a plurality of messages on the message bus and consume a plurality of messages from the message bus.

    HANDOVER OF A LATENCY CRITICAL APPLICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220132387A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-28

    申请号:US17429957

    申请日:2020-02-13

    IPC分类号: H04W36/22 H04W36/00 H04W36/32

    摘要: A method includes: a) provisioning, at a selected edge computing system, at least one latency critical application; b) determining, at a first base station, that an end user device is located proximate to an edge of the first cell and/or in an overlapping area of the first cell and a second cell of the wireless network; c) checking a degree of capacity utilization of the second cell; d) scheduling a handover of the end user device from the first cell to the second cell in case that the second cell has sufficient available capacity; e) transferring, before executing the handover, in real time a first note about the scheduled handover from a first scheduler associated with the first base station to the at least one latency critical application; and f) executing the handover.

    METHOD FOR ALLOCATING A SPECTRAL RESOURCE OF A RADIO CELL USING AN EDGE CLOUD SERVER

    公开(公告)号:US20220124508A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-21

    申请号:US17506719

    申请日:2021-10-21

    摘要: A method for allocating a spectral resource of a radio cell of a mobile communication network to a mobile application includes: establishing, by the mobile application, a wireless connection to an application backend via a radio access point of the radio cell of the mobile communication network; and allocating, by a scheduler of the mobile communication network, the spectral resource of the radio cell to the established wireless connection. An optimization service requested by the scheduler determines a minimum of an overall cost function, the overall cost function summing a plurality of cost values, wherein each cost value is related to a respective mobile application connected to the radio access point. The scheduler allocates the spectral resource depending on the determined minimum of the overall cost function.