Ultra-broadband virtualized telecom and internet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9949133-B2
Application number	US-201715664764-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2017
Priority date	Aug 5, 2016
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A system provides a connection between a core network and at least one user device responsive to an application or service being used by the at least one user device. The system includes a dynamically configurable network including a plurality of control layers for connecting the core network and the at least one user device. At least one server implements the dynamically configurable network. The at least one server is configured to select a first slice portion of the plurality of control layers of the dynamically configurable network to support operation of a first application or service and to select a second slice portion of the plurality of control layers of the configurable network to support operation of a second application or service.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for providing a dynamically configurable network between a core network and at least one user device responsive to an application or service being used by the at least one user device, comprising:
a radio access network for providing a first communications link with the at least one user device, the radio access network including a first plurality of control layers;
a backhaul network for connecting the radio access network to the core network, the backhaul network including a second plurality of control layers;
at least one server for implementing at least a portion of the radio access network and the backhaul network within the at least one server; and
wherein the at least one server is configured to select a first slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and a first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support operation of a first application or service and to select a second slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and a second slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support operation of a second application or service.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one server is further configured to implement a data center (DC) based cloud architecture.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one server is further configured to select a first slice portion of the DC based cloud architecture to support operation of the first application or service and to select a second slice portion of the DC based cloud architecture to support operation of the second application or service.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one server is further configured to select the first slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) to select the second slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the second slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC) and to select a third slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the third slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support massive machine type communications (mMTC).

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein SDR based massive-MIMO is used to support high bandwidth requirements caused by selection of the first slice portion to support eMBB.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the application or service being used by the at least one user device is implemented on a cloud based data center.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first slice portion of the of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network implements a new service in the dynamically configurable network.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one server implements the at least the first and second slice portion of the radio access network and the backhaul network using software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) to define the configurable network infrastructure.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the radio access network further comprises massive MIMO transceivers for establishing communications links with the backhaul network.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first slice portion and the second slice portion comprise differing amounts of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network depending on needs of the service or application associated with each of the first slice portion and the second slice portion.

11. A method for providing a dynamically configurable network between a core network and at least one user device responsive to an application or service being used by the at least one user device, comprising:
providing a first communications link with the at least one user device through a radio access network including a first plurality of control layers;
connecting the radio access network to a core network through a backhaul network including a second plurality of control layers;
implementing at least a portion of the radio access network and the backhaul network within at least one server;
selecting within the at least one server a first slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and a first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support operation of a first application or service;
providing the first application or service to the at least one user device on the first slice portion;
selecting within the at least one server a second slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and a second slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support operation of a second application or service; and
providing the second application or service to the at least one user device on the second slice portion.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of configuring the first server to implement a data center (DC) based cloud architecture.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the steps of selecting further comprises:
selecting within the at least one server a first slice portion of the DC based cloud architecture to support operation of the first application or service; and
selecting within the at least one server a second slice portion of the DC based cloud architecture to support operation of the second application or service.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the steps of selecting further comprise:
selecting at the at least one server the first slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB);
selecting at the at least one server the second slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the second slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC); and
selecting at the at least one server a third slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the third slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network to support massive machine type communications (mMTC).

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the step of selecting the first slice portion further comprises:
selecting of the first slice portion to support eMBB; and
implementing SDR based massive-MIMO to support high bandwidth requirements.

16. The method of claim 11 further comprises the step of implementing the application or service being used by the at least one user device on a cloud based data center.

17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first slice portion of the of the first plurality of control layers of the radio access network and the first slice portion of the second plurality of control layers of the backhaul network implements a new service in the dynamically configurable network.

18. The method of claim 11 furt

Assignees

• Nxgen Partners Ip Llc

Inventors

• Ashrafi Solyman

Classifications

• H04L63/30

  for supporting lawful interception, monitoring or retaining of communications or communication related information (circuit switched telephony call monitoring H04M3/2281) · CPC title

• H04L41/0816

  the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events · CPC title

• H04B1/0003

  Software-defined radio [SDR] systems, i.e. systems wherein components typically implemented in hardware, e.g. filters or modulators/demodulators, are implented using software, e.g. by involving an AD or DA conversion stage such that at least part of the signal processing is performed in the digital domain (digital baseband systems H04L25/00; digital modulation/demodulation H04L27/00; CDMA H04B1/707; TDMA H04B7/2643; image transmission H04N5/00) · CPC title

• H04B7/0452

  Multi-user MIMO systems · 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