US 12,069,747 B2
Tenant deployment of mobile network components
Ravi Kiran Guntupalli, Cumming, GA (US); Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US); and Abhishek Dhammawat, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/375,765.
Prior Publication US 2023/0017423 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by a control plane node of a mobile network, from a first radio node, a setup request including an identifier of the first radio node and a tenant identifier;
obtaining, by the control plane node from a user plane function (UPF) instance, an association setup request for the UPF instance, the association setup request including an identifier of the UPF instance and the tenant identifier, wherein the setup request and the association setup request are obtained by the control plane node before obtaining a session establishment request for at least one user equipment (UE); and
utilizing, by the control plane node, the tenant identifier to select the first radio node and the UPF instance for communication with a UE associated with a first tenant identified by the tenant identifier upon obtaining a session establishment request for the UE.