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Joint IoT broker and network slice management component

US10798176B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NEC CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

Vincenzo Sciancalepore · Heidelberg, DE
Flavio Cirillo · Heidelberg, DE
Xavier Costa Perez · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 18, 2017
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 18, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/34
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for Internet of Things (IoT) traffic management in a communication network supporting a plurality of network slices, in particular a 5th generation wireless communication network, includes dynamically assigning, by a network slice management component, network resources to a number of network slices. One or more of the network slices are dedicated IoT network slices being adapted to enable IoT-related communications between an IoT platform and IoT devices or IoT gateways. The method also includes the network slice management component, interacting with an IoT broker associated with the IoT platform and, based on the interaction, performing actions with respect to an allocation of network resources to the number of network slices and/or triggering actions on the IoT broker with respect to a configuration of IoT data traffic.

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