US 11,700,628 B2
Multi-slice support for MEC-enabled 5G deployments
Dario Sabella, Gassino (IT); and Miltiadis Filippou, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/430,282
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/021914
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/185794, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/816,616, filed on Mar. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0086864 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/50 (2023.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/535 (2023.01) [H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/0072 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system configured to track network slicing operations within a Fifth Generation (5G) communication network, the system comprising:
memory; and
processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry configured to:
determine a network slice instance (NSI) associated with a quality of service (QoS) flow of a user equipment (UE), the NSI communicating data for a network function virtualization (NFV) instance of a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) system within the 5G communication network;
retrieve latency information for a plurality of communication links used by the NSI, the plurality of communication links including a first set of non-MEC communication links associated with a radio access network (RAN) of the 5G communication network and a second set of MEC communication links associated with the MEC system;
generate a slice configuration policy based on the retrieved latency information and slice-specific attributes of the NSI; and
reconfigure network resources of the 5G communication network used by the NSI based on the generated slice configuration policy.