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 |
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.
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