Patent · US Active

Combined network and computation slicing for latency critical edge computing applications

US11588751B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

Mikhail Vilgelm · Munich, DE
Babar Qaisrani · Issaquah, US
Biljana Badic · Munich, DE
Christian Drewes · Germering, DE
Krisztian Kiss · Cupertino, US
Matthias Sauer · San Jose, US
Vijay Venkataraman · San Jose, US
Ralph Hasholzner · Munich, DE
Robert Zaus · Munich, DE
Teck Yang Lee · Cupertino, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 23, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L47/781
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and devices for creating and operating a combined network and computational slice instance (NCSI) in a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) scenario. Communication and computational resources may be reserved by a NCSI controller for the NCSI. The communication resources may include network slices and the computational resources may include MEC computational resources of one or more MEC servers. The reserved resources may be selected based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of UEs that will utilize the NCSI. During operation, reserved resources for the NCSI may be dynamically renegotiated based on an aggregate load of the NCSI, the QoS of data traffic, and/or updated QoS requirements of the UEs.

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