CPC H04L 41/082 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 16/1805 (2019.01); G06F 16/1824 (2019.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/5006 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] | 20 Claims |
1. A system configured to track network slicing operations, the system comprising:
memory; and
processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry configured to:
select a network slice instance from a plurality of available network slice instances based on a network slice instance type specified by a client node, the plurality of available network slice instances using virtualized network resources of a first network resource provider, the network slice instance selected further based on a data rate throughput of a wireless communication link used by the network slice instance;
associate the client node with the selected network slice instance;
determine using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based network inferencing function, utilization of the virtualized network resources of the first network resource provider by the plurality of available network slice instances;
determine allocations of resource subsets of the virtualized network resources to each of the plurality of available network slice instances based on the determined utilization; and
record a ledger entry of associating the selected network slice instance with the client node in a distributed ledger of a distributed ledger network, the distributed ledger further including at least a second ledger entry indicating the allocations of resource subsets of the virtualized network resources of the first network resource provider and virtualized network resources of at least a second network resource provider to each of the plurality of available network slice instances based on the determined utilization of the virtualized network resources of the first network resource provider.
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