US 12,335,112 B2
Method and apparatus for abstracting network resources in a mobile communications network
Paola Iovanna, Pisa (IT); Teresa Pepe, Pisa (IT); Filippo Ponzini, Pisa (IT); and Fabio Ubaldi, Pisa (IT)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/642,818
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Sep. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/075380
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/052603, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376995 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/5019 (2022.01); H04L 41/14 (2022.01); H04L 41/5054 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/5019 (2013.01) [H04L 41/145 (2013.01); H04L 41/5054 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of abstracting network resources in a mobile communications network, the network resources comprising transport domain resources, radio domain resources and control resources, the method comprising:
determining a service coverage area for a class of service, the class of service defined by service parameters comprising a bandwidth, a latency, and a reliability to be delivered for the class of service, and an abstraction view comprising a deliverable bandwidth, a deliverable latency, and a deliverable reliability for the class of service within a set of tracking areas, the deliverable bandwidth and the deliverable latency of the abstraction view comprising representative values of statistically estimated radio domain bandwidth and latency values of the tracking areas;
determining the set of tracking areas that fall at least partly within the service coverage area;
selecting available network resources for tracking areas of the set of tracking areas, for providing the class of service in the tracking areas;
checking that the selected network resources are able to deliver the service parameters of the class of service;
responsive to the checking indicating that at least part of the selected network resources are unable to deliver the service parameters of the class of service, selecting different available network resources for tracking areas of the set of tracking areas, for providing the class of service in the tracking areas;
defining the abstraction view of the selected network resources for the class of service in the service coverage area, the abstraction view comprising deliverable values of the service parameters within the set of tracking areas; and
outputting a communication signal comprising an indication of the abstraction view.