Architecture for radio access network virtualization

• US 9,723,495 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2016
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), Bwt Beijing Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Broustis, Ioannis, Razoumov, Leonid, Rozner, Eric, Puthenpura, Sarat
• Primary Examiner(s): Zaidi, Iqbal
• Application Number:
  US15/271,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20170013473A1
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 370328-339, 370229-238, 370252-253, 370415
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/065 using assembly or disassembly of packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

Multiple access wireless communication networks/infrastructures are virtualized in telecommunications environments. A system replicates a cell identifier associated with a macro base station device to create a virtual base station device presence for a set of network devices included in the multiple access wireless communication network and thereafter facilitates communication with the multiple access wireless communication network, the set of network devices, and a mobile device through the created virtual base station presence.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving a cell identifier representative of a base station device;

employing the cell identifier to create data representing a device object for devices associated with a network;

in response to receiving, from a device of the devices, a paging request comprising header data, replacing the header data with substitute header data comprising the data representing the device object; and

facilitating a communication between the device and the devices based on the data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the device object is a first device object, wherein the operations further comprise maintaining a data structure of identities to distinguish the first device object from a second device object, and wherein the data structure of identities comprises a media access control address of a network interface associated with the first device object.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the device object is a first device object, wherein the data is first data, and wherein the operations further comprise, as a function of the cell identifier, grouping the first data representing the first device object with second data representing a second device object.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is a radio access network, and wherein the operations further comprise initiating sending of a transmission parameter of the radio access network to the device object.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is a radio access network, and wherein the operations further comprise initiating sending, to the devices of the radio access network, a quality of service request for the device to the device object.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise initiating sending of a software update to the device object.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise initiating sending of an operating system image or a system configuration parameter to the device object.

8. The system claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise executing a self organized networking process for a parameterization of the device object for the network.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the device object is a first device object, and wherein the operations further comprise coordinating use of different wireless technologies between the first device object and a second device object to associate the device with a single network identifier.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a cell identifier representing a base station device;

replicating, by the system, the cell identifier to create data representing a device object for devices associated with a network;

in response to receiving, from a device of the devices, a paging request replacing, by the system, header data included in the paging request with substitute header data comprising the data; and

facilitating, by the system, a communication between the device and devices associated with the network the based on the data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the paging request is a first paging request, and further comprising, as a function of a data structure of identities, transmitting, by the system, a second paging request received from a mobility management entity device to the device object.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising, as a function of a paging response received from the device of the devices associated with the network, transmitting a response, by the system, to the second paging request received from the mobility management entity device.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

in response to receiving, from a network device of a network of network devices, a paging request comprising header data, replacing the header data with substitute header data comprising data representative of a device object for the network devices according to a received cell identifier representing a base station device, wherein the received cell identifier is received from the base station device; and

facilitating communication between the network device and the network devices based on the data.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise maintaining a data structure of identities comprising a media access control address of a network interface associated with the device object.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the network is a radio access network, and wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a transmission synchronization timing value of the radio access network to the device object.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the network is a radio access network, and wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a quality of service requirement for the radio access network and associated with the network device to the device object.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a software update to the device object.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise initiating a self organized networking process for a parameterization of the network devices of the network.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the device object is a first device object, wherein the paging request is a first paging request, and wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a second paging request received from a mobility management entity device to the device object as a function of a data structure of identities that distinguishes the first device object from a second device object.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the paging request is a first paging request, and wherein the operations further comprise, as a function of a paging response received from the network device, transmitting a reply comprising a second paging request received from a mobility management entity device.