SUBSCRIPTION-BASED ROUTING TO A PARTICULAR CORE NETWORK

Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards are currently studying use cases in which some network operators may use more than one Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) ID. In some instances, due to certain business and/or operational demands, for example, it might be necessary to route signaling traffic of a certain customer segment of one PLMN to another PLMN at which to handle subscriber traffic for the customer segment. Presented herein are techniques that can be utilized to facilitate redirecting a user to a partner network

AIDED REMOTE RENDERING IN A 5G-AS-A-SERVICE MOBILE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)-based mobile applications are becoming increasingly computation-intensive, memory-consuming, and power-consuming. In addition, end devices usually have stringent energy consumption, compute, and memory limitations for running a complete offline AI/ML inference on-board. Many AI/ML applications currently offload inference processing from mobile devices to internet data centers (IDC). Techniques presented herein provide for discovering the closest offload server so that UE can offload some of the rending work to the offload server

NETWORK-AUTHORIZED SPLIT DATA RATE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/MACHINE LEARNING RENDERING

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models are widely used for image/video recognition tasks on mobile devices. The CNN is split into two parts - the computation-intensive and energy-intensive parts are offloaded to a network server while the privacy-sensitive and delay-sensitive parts are maintained at the end device. Techniques described herein allow a network to control the split for a user device in artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) rendering based on a number of factors

OFFLOAD SERVER SELECTION BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT ROUTE SELECTION POLICY

Many applications offload inference processing from the mobile devices running the applications to Internet datacenters. By using a side link to realize proximity-based work task offloading, the data rate on the Uu interface does not need to be increased while the original device’s computation load is offloaded. This leads to battery savings in the device. Techniques described herein outline efficient ways for a device to discover an offload server for offloading processing

ENTERPRISE PRIVATE 5G SELF-HEALING NETWORK

With the advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices being utilized in enterprise deployments, industry is heading towards the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technologies in enterprise networks with regulators around the globe opening private as well as shared spectrum to facilitate 5G usage. In enterprise private 5G deployments with use-cases such as factory automation, etc. there is need for minimal service disruptions. Additionally, the UE/subscriber session scale will be increased for 5G deployments and the number of applications having critical use-cases with low latency and high bandwidth will also increase. With all these niches and for supporting URLLC use-cases comes the need for radio access network (RAN) and packet core systems to properly function with no service disruption most of the time. Presented herein are techniques to provide a 5G core system (5GC) system as a self-healing network that facilitates network assurance for enterprise private 5G deployments

TECHNIQUES FOR OBTAINING INDOOR LOCATION MAP AND UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER FROM AN ACCESS NETWORK

Many times, when a user is in a building and not aware of layout of the building, it becomes very difficult for the user to know in which part of the building the user is currently standing. While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)/cellular systems offer various methods for determining the position of a wireless device of a user (often referred to as a user equipment (UE), the resulting positioning coordinates (e.g., Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates) are of not of much use to the user. Presented herein are techniques through which a UE can be provided a user-friendly visual indication of the current location of the UE inside an unfamiliar building, layout, or other geographical area

REDIRECTION OF USER DEVICES TO ALTERNATIVE VPLMNS DURING CAPACITY OVERLOAD

Techniques described herein provide for temporarily redirecting a user device to a partner VPLMN when a current serving VPLMN is congested. In particular, the serving network indicates to a Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) that a congestion condition has occurred so that the HPLMN can trigger redirection of UEs to a different VPLMN. In addition, a UE may inform the HPLMN about poor QoS so that the HPLMN can redirect the UE to different VPLMN. Furthermore, the HPLMN may redirect the UE to a desired VPLMN temporarily without modifying its Roaming Priority List (RPL) information in the Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM)

NETWORK-AWARE VR APPLICATIONS

Elements of a modern network environment contain a wealth of important information. Such information may include an advanced digital network architecture management platform’s awareness of the location and wireless coverage information for all of the access points (APs) in a physical space and a cloud-based location services platform’s awareness of the physical location of all of the wireless devices in that space. Techniques are presented herein that support the conveyance of such information to a virtual reality (VR) device for integration with the VR experience of the device user. Though such an integration a user may, for example, be prompted to navigate to a location that offers the best wireless connectivity, thus yielding a better VR experience through less jitter, crisper frames, lower latency for remote frame rendering, etc

INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 PREFIX COLORING IN SOFTWARE DEFINED ACCESS FABRIC FOR DIFFERENTIATED POLICY ENFORCEMENT

Techniques are described herein for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) prefix coloring in Software Defined Access (SDA) fabric. These techniques may enable differentiated policy enforcement

PROXY EDGE FUNCTION FOR CLOUD BASED 5G CORE

For deployments where the 5G control (5GC) plane function is in the cloud and the user plane function (UPF) is on-prem, there are number issues that may be result of unstable wide area network (WAN) link connection. This solution addresses these issues by introducing an proxy edge function on-premises and a corresponding proxy peer in the cloud