US 11,941,445 B2
RLC channel management for low memory 5G devices
Gandhi Sivakumar, Bentleigh (AU); Kushal S. Patel, Pune (IN); Luke Peter Macura, Lucas (AU); and Sarvesh S. Patel, Pune (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/472,743.
Prior Publication US 2023/0081905 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC G06F 9/5016 (2013.01) [H04W 28/16 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
responsive to detecting a memory overload in an RLC layer of a 5G user equipment, determining, by one or more computer processors, whether one or more slices of a plurality of slices are one or more merger candidates;
determining, by the one or more computer processors, whether any merger candidates of the one or more merger candidates can share a transportation logical entity, wherein merger candidates can share the transportation logical entity if performance and quality parameters are within predetermined limits;
marking, by the one or more computer processors, the one or more merger candidates that can share the transportation logical entity as one or more allowed candidates; and
responsive to determining that at least one allowed candidate of the one or more allowed candidates have a workload that is below a predetermined threshold, merging, by the one or more computer processors, one or more allowed candidates into one or more merged flows.