Dynamic resource partitioning for multi-carrier access for 5G or other next generation network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10425829-B1
Application number	US-201816021803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jun 28, 2018
Priority date	Jun 28, 2018
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

Dynamic sharing of pooled radio access network (RAN) resources can be divided amongst different tenant carriers according to a service level agreement and/or a host carrier policy. The carriers can share the RAN with the host carrier while utilizing their own core network and service delivery platform. The hosting carrier can utilize policies to provide guidelines on how to share among the tenant carriers. Additionally, the hosting carrier can also provide services for internet-of-things devices based on security requirements with different firewall, and/or authentication requirements.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
in response to receiving a request for access by a carrier device associated with a carrier identity of a first carrier, generating, by a software-defined network device comprising a processor, a common control plane associated with a dedicated control plane of a wireless network;
based on the common control plane, generating, by the software-defined network device, a dedicated user plane associated with the dedicated control plane;
based on a service level agreement between the first carrier and a second carrier, tagging, by the software-defined network device, a first data packet of the first carrier to distinguish the first data packet from a second data packet of the second carrier; and
in response to the generating the dedicated user plane, facilitating, by the software-defined network device, sending a resource to be provided, by the carrier device associated with the carrier identity, to an internet-of-things device associated with the carrier identity, wherein the facilitating the sending the resource comprises facilitating sending the first data packet to the internet-of-things device.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
facilitating, by the software-defined network device, receiving a carrier policy data representative of a carrier policy associated with the carrier identity.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
in response to generating the dedicated user plane, enforcing, by the software-defined network device, the carrier policy in conjunction with the sending the resource.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the carrier identity is a first carrier identity, and further comprising:
facilitating, by the software-defined network device, partitioning the resource between the first carrier identity and a second carrier identity different than the first carrier identity.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the partitioning the resource is based on a carrier policy associated with the first carrier identity.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the carrier identity comprises a public land mobile network identity.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the carrier identity is a first carrier identity, and further comprising:
facilitating, by the software-defined network device, differentiating between the first carrier identity and a second carrier identity based on a service that the second carrier identity supports.

8. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving a request for a resource from a carrier device associated with a carrier identity of a first carrier of a wireless network;
in response to the receiving the request for the resource, associating a common control plane with a dedicated control plane of the wireless network;
based on the associating the common control plane with the dedicated control plane, generating a dedicated user plane associated with the dedicated control plane;
based on a service level agreement between the first carrier and a second carrier, tagging a first data packet of the first carrier to differentiate the first data packet from a second data packet of the second carrier; and
in response to the generating the dedicated user plane, facilitating providing the resource to the carrier device for use by an internet-of-things device associated with the carrier identity, wherein the facilitating providing the resource comprises facilitating sending the first data packet to the internet-of things device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:
based on the receiving the request for the resource, sending request data representative of the resource to the carrier device.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the facilitating the providing the resource to the carrier device is based on a type of a service available to the internet-of-things device from the carrier device.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the resource is a radio channel to be used by the carrier device to send data to the internet-of-things device.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the resource is a specified quality-of-service associated with the internet-of-things device.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the carrier device utilizes a wireless fidelity device associated with an enhancing layer of the wireless network to establish the quality-of-service for the internet-of-things device.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the resource is an amount of bandwidth to be dedicated to the carrier device.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
facilitating receiving a request for access by a carrier device associated with a carrier identity of a first carrier of a wireless network;
in response to the facilitating the receiving, facilitating generating a common control plane associated with a dedicated control plane of the wireless network;
based on the facilitating the generating the common control plane, facilitating generating a dedicated user plane associated with the dedicated control plane;
based on a service level agreement between the first carrier and a second carrier, a first data packet of the first carrier to distinguish the first data packet from a second data packet of the second carrier; and
in response to the facilitating the generating the dedicated user plane, facilitating granting the request for the access by the carrier device.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein facilitating the granting the request for the access comprises allocating a resource to the carrier device.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise:
facilitating utilizing the resource by an internet-of-things device wirelessly connected to the carrier device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the resource is an amount of bandwidth to be allocated to the internet-of-things device.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the carrier identity is a first carrier identity, and wherein the operations further comprise:
based on a carrier policy associated with a second carrier identity, allocating the resource to the second carrier identity.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the carrier identity is a first carrier identity, wherein the carrier device is a first carrier device, and wherein the operations further comprise:
based on a priority associated with the first carrier identity, facilitating terminating the resource to allocate the resource to a second carrier device associated with a second carrier identity of the second carrier different than the first carrier.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp
• At & T Mobility Ii Llc

Inventors

• Cui Zhi
• Lau Erie Lai Har
• Dowlatkhah Sangar

Classifications

• H04W4/70

  Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] · CPC title

• H04W16/02 Primary

  Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning · CPC title

• H04W48/18

  Selecting a network or a communication service · CPC title

• H04W16/14 Primary

  Spectrum sharing arrangements {between different networks} · CPC title

• H04W16/10

  Dynamic resource partitioning · CPC title