US 12,267,727 B2
Method for managing resources of a converged fixed access and mobile radio telecommunications network, and corresponding computer program product and devices
Gaël Fromentoux, Chatillon (FR); Veronica Karina Quintuna Rodriguez, Chatillon (FR); and Benoît Radier, Chatillon (FR)
Assigned to Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Appl. No. 17/611,125
Filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
PCT Filed May 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/062344
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/229216, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1905044 (FR), filed on May 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0225169 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 28/16 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0032 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing resources of a converged fixed access and mobile radio telecommunications network, a part of the resources, comprising virtualized resources, being implemented in a virtualized form and moved in the network, another part of the resources, comprising local loop resources, being implemented in a local loop of the network, a plurality of mobile operators each having at least one base station connected to a mobile radio part of the network via a mobile radio modem connected to the local loop,
wherein a module for centralized management of the allocation of the resources carries out:
receiving at least one request for resources, comprising mobile client request, emitted either by a module for management of the mobile radio resources of each of the mobile operators, or by a first module for centralized management of the requests for resources from at least one request for mobile radio service previously received from the mobile radio resource management module of each of the mobile operators;
sending at least one offer of allocation of the resources to the modules for management of the mobile radio resources according to the at least one mobile client request and at least one predetermined resource allocation offer rule; and
a reception of at least one confirmation of acceptance of the offer of allocation of the resources, comprising confirmed allocation offer, sent by:
at least one module out of the modules for management of the mobile radio resources of each of the mobile operators; or
at least one piece of user equipment;
wherein the module for centralized management of the allocation of the resources carries out a reception:
of at least one piece of information representing an availability of the local loop resources transmitted by a module for management of the local loop and fixed access resources of the network; and
of at least one piece of information representing an availability of the virtualized resources transmitted by a module for management of the virtualized resources moved in the network, the at least one allocation offer being dependent on the at least one piece of information representing the availability of the local loop resources and on the at least one piece of information representing the availability of the virtualized resources, and
wherein the module for centralized management of the allocation of the resources sends at least one confirmation of reservation of the resources to the network local loop and fixed access resource management module and to the module for management of the virtualized resources moved in the network, the at least one confirmation of reservation of the resources being sent when the at least one confirmation of acceptance of the offer of allocation of the resources is received.