US 12,231,920 B2
Network slices for time sensitive networking
Oguz Oktay, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US); and Arda Akman, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/656,495.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308898 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/10 (2009.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 28/10 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 40/02 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network system comprising:
a service orchestrator for configuring a mobile network to operate as a time sensitive networking (TSN) bridge, wherein the service orchestrator is configured to:
receive, from a centralized network controller (CNC) for a TSN application, TSN configuration data for a TSN flow between two end station devices for the TSN application;
generate, based on the TSN configuration data, an intent to create an end-to-end network slice between the two end station devices across the mobile network to transport packets for the TSN flow, the intent comprising information for configuring a plurality of domains of the mobile network comprising a Radio Access Network (RAN) domain, a core network domain, and a transport network domain;
provision the RAN domain, the core network domain, and the transport network domain of the mobile network with the end-to-end network slice based on the intent, wherein the end-to-end network slice is associated with slice identification data; and
output, to a user equipment (UE) device attached to the mobile network, the slice identification data to cause the UE device to map packets for the TSN flow, the packets received by the UE device from one of the two end station devices, to the end-to-end network slice.