US 11,711,727 B1
Provisioning radio-based networks on demand
Diwakar Gupta, Seattle, WA (US); Kaixiang Hu, Fremont, CA (US); Igor A Kostic, Redmond, WA (US); Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade, Washington, DC (US); Shane Ashley Hall, Kirkland, WA (US); Kiran Kumar Edara, Cupertino, CA (US); and Ishwardutt Parulkar, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/203,500.
Int. Cl. H04W 28/08 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0967 (2020.05) [H04W 28/0226 (2013.01); H04W 28/0231 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 28/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a cloud provider network;
an application programming interface (API) to reserve capacity with a plurality of radio access networks, wherein at least two of the plurality of radio access networks are operated by a plurality of communication service providers;
at least one computing device; and
instructions executable in the at least one computing device, wherein when executed the instructions cause the at least one computing device to at least:
receive a request to provision a radio-based network to cover an area, the request specifying a list of user equipment (UE) identifiers permitted to access the radio-based network, the request further specifying a quality-of-service requirement;
determine a subset of the plurality of radio access networks to provide a coverage meeting the quality-of-service requirement for the area;
provision, via the API, a capacity in at least one of: a distributed unit (DU) or a centralized unit (CU) of the subset of the plurality of radio access networks for the radio-based network to cover the area and meet the quality-of-service requirement; and
provision at least a portion of a core network for the radio-based network in the cloud provider network, a quantity of resources of the cloud provider network being allocated to the at least the portion of the core network in order to meet the quality-of-service requirement.