	US 12,113,673 B2
	System, function and interface for interconnecting multi-domain network slice control and management
Kostas Katsalis, Munich (DE); Konstantinos Samdanis, Munich (DE); and Shuping Peng, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,129.
Application 17/850,129 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,065, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,411,824.
Application 17/077,065 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2018/060368, filed on Apr. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0329491 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 41/5009 (2022.01)

CPC H04L 41/0893 (2013.01) [H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01)]

42 Claims

17. A method implemented by a transport network slice subnet management entity in a transport network (TN), the method comprising:

providing a network slice subset management function of the TN;

obtaining requirement information of the TN from a network slice management entity, wherein the TN is located between a radio access network (RAN) and a core network (CN), and wherein the TN connects the RAN and the CN; and

managing a network slice of the TN according to the requirement information to meet a requirement of the TN by providing configuration information to an entity of the TN,

wherein the configuration information is for configuring the entity in the TN.

26. A method implemented by a network slice management entity and comprising:

obtaining requirement information of a transport network (TN) corresponding to a transport network slice subnet management entity in the TN, wherein the requirement information is for managing a network slice according to the requirement information to meet a requirement of the TN by providing configuration information to an entity of the TN, wherein the configuration information is for configuring the entity in the TN, wherein the TN is located between a radio access network (RAN) and a core network (CN), and wherein the TN connects the RAN and the CN; and

providing the requirement information to the transport network slice subnet management entity.