US 12,250,569 B2
Cellular telecommunications network
Michael Fitch, London (GB); and Richard Mackenzie, London (GB)
Assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, (GB)
Appl. No. 17/250,120
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIOSN PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
PCT Filed Apr. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/058779
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/228695, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18175593 (EP), filed on Jun. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0235289 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of allocating a resource in a virtualized radio access network, wherein the virtualized radio access network includes a first virtual machine delivering a first service type and a second virtual machine delivering a second service type different from the first service type, the method comprising:
receiving data indicating a performance measure of a first parameter for the first virtual machine and further indicating a performance measure of the first parameter for the second virtual machine;
determining a first spectrum utilization for the first virtual machine based on the performance measure of the first parameter for the first virtual machine relative to a performance requirement for the first parameter for the first service type;
determining a second spectrum utilization for the second virtual machine based on the performance measure of the first parameter for the second virtual machine relative to the performance requirement for the first parameter for the second service type;
comparing the first spectrum utilization to a target spectrum utilization for the first service type;
comparing the second spectrum utilization to a target spectrum utilization for the second service type; and
configuring a resource allocation for at least one of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine based on the comparisons of the first spectrum utilization and the second spectrum utilization to the respective target spectrum utilizations.