Managing radio-based private networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12413489-B2
Application number	US-202318179050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2023
Priority date	Dec 10, 2020
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for managing radio-based private networks. In one embodiment, a request is received from an organization for a provider to provision a radio-based private network to cover a site of the organization. Equipment is preconfigured to implement the radio-based private network before shipping the equipment to the organization. A core network is provisioned for the organization.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by at least one computing device, a request from an organization for a provider to provision a radio-based private network and an associated core network to cover a site of the organization;
determining, by the at least one computing device, an arrangement of one or more cells to cover the site;
causing, by the at least one computing device, cell equipment to be preconfigured to implement the one or more cells before shipping the cell equipment to the organization; and
provisioning, by the at least one computing device, the associated core network for the organization.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the cell equipment comprises a computer server.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the associated core network is provisioned on premises of the organization.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the associated core network is provisioned in a provider substrate extension of a cloud provider network.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining to add an additional cell to the radio-based private network; and
causing additional cell equipment to be preconfigured to implement the additional cell before shipping the additional cell equipment to the organization.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising reserving frequency spectrum for the one or more cells via a spectrum reservation service.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
implementing a first quality-of-service level on the radio-based private network for a first device type; and
implementing a second quality-of-service level on the radio-based private network for a second device type.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising probing, by the at least one computing device, an existing private network of the organization to determine at least one requirement for the radio-based private network, wherein the least one requirement for the radio-based private network comprises an initial threshold for at least one performance metric for the radio-based private network.

9. A system, comprising:
at least one computing device configured to at least:
receive a request from an organization for a provider to provision a radio-based private network and an associated core network to cover a site of the organization;
cause cell equipment to be preconfigured to implement one or more cells before shipping the cell equipment to the organization; and
provision the associated core network for the organization.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to determine an arrangement of the one or more cells to cover the site.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least scale a quantity of resources allocated to the associated core network based at least in part on at least one of: a utilization metric or a latency metric.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least implement differentiated quality-of-service levels in the radio-based private network.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the at least one computing device is configured to at least probe an existing private network of the organization to determine at least one requirement for the radio-based private network, wherein the least one requirement for the radio-based private network comprises an initial threshold for at least one performance metric for the radio-based private network.

14. A system, comprising:
at least one computing device configured to at least:
receive a request from an organization for a provider to provision a radio-based private network to cover a site of the organization;
cause equipment to be preconfigured to implement the radio-based private network before shipping the equipment to the organization; and
provision a core network for the organization.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least reserve a spectrum assignment for the radio-based private network with a spectrum reservation service.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least determine an arrangement of the equipment to cover the site.

17. The system of claim 14 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least provision one or more network slices on the radio-based private network to provide differentiated quality-of-service.

18. The system of claim 14 , wherein at least a portion of the core network is provisioned in a cloud provider network.

19. The system of claim 14 , wherein at least a portion of the core network is provisioned in a server on premises of the organization.

20. The system of claim 14 , wherein the equipment comprises a computer server.

Assignees

• Amazon Tech Inc

Inventors

• Gupta Diwakar
• Kostic Igor A
• Edara Kiran Kumar
• Hu Kaixiang
• Hall Shane Ashley
• Parulkar Ishwardutt

Classifications

• H04W84/18

  Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks · CPC title

• H04W84/045

  using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L47/2475

  for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title