EP-4736382-A1 - PREDICTING CONFLICTING COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to provided a method at a node of a wireless communications platform, the method comprising: obtaining a requirement for configuring a communication parameter from at least one external application; detecting a trigger to evaluate a potential conflict condition, the trigger determined based on the obtained requirement; requesting analytics information to support evaluating the potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for the obtained requirement; receiving analytics information; detecting a potential conflict condition based on the received analytics; and notifying the potential conflict condition to the at least one external application.

Inventors

• PATEROMICHELAKIS, EMMANOUIL
• KARAMPATSIS, DIMITRIOS

Assignees

• Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Dates

Publication Date

20260506

Application Date

20230807

Claims (20)

1. 1. A node of a wireless communications platform, the node comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the node to: obtain a requirement for configuring a communication parameter from at least one external application; detect a trigger to evaluate a potential conflict condition, the trigger determined based on the obtained requirement; request analytics information to support evaluating the potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for the obtained requirement; receive analytics information; detect a potential conflict condition based on the received analytics; and notify the potential conflict condition to the at least one external application.
2. 2. The node of claim 1, wherein the node is further arranged to determine a conflict resolution action, wherein the conflict resolution action comprises a recommendation to the external application for resolving the potential conflict condition.
3. 3. The node of claim 1, wherein the node is further arranged to negotiate with the at least one external application a resolution to the potential conflict condition.
4. 4. The node of claim 1, wherein the potential conflict condition comprises at least one of a potential resource conflict and a policy conflict.
5. 5. The node of claim 4, wherein the resource comprises at least one of: radio resources, network resources, QoS profiles, management resources, slice resources, computational resources at the edge of the wireless communication network, or computational resources in the cloud.
6. 6. The node of claim 4 or 5, wherein the policy comprises any combination of a Vertical Application Layer server policy, a Network slice management Policy, a mobile network operator policy, a network slice capability enablement service policy.
7. 7. The node of any preceding claim, wherein detecting a potential conflict condition comprises detecting a conflict type.
8. 8. The node of claim 7, wherein the conflict type comprises at least one of the following: an AF request conflict, a QoS policy conflict, an slice Life Cycle Management conflict, a VAL policy conflict, a UE policy conflict.
9. 9. The node of any preceding claim, wherein the potential conflict condition comprises either a direct conflict, an indirect conflict, or an implicit conflict.
10. 10. The node of any preceding claim, wherein the requirement for configuring a communication parameter is predictive.
11. 11. The node of any preceding claim, wherein the potential conflict condition comprises at least one of: a potential failure to meet the obtained requirement; a potential failure or service degradation at the wireless communications platform resulting from the obtained requirement; and a potential failure or service degradation experienced by other applications or users affected by the configuration of the communication parameter.
12. 12. An analytics entity comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the analytics entity to: receive a request from a wireless communications platform, the request for analytics information to support evaluating a potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for a requirement; and send analytics information to the wireless communications platform in response to the request.
13. 13. The analytics entity of claim 12, further comprising deriving analytics information, wherein sending analytics information to the wireless communications platform in response to the request for conflict comprises sending the derived analytics information.
14. 14. The analytics entity of claim 12 or 13, wherein the potential conflict condition comprises at least one of a potential resource conflict and a policy conflict.
15. 15. The analytics entity of claim 14, wherein the resource comprises at least one of: radio resources, network resources, QoS profiles, management resources, slice resources, computational resources at the edge of the wireless communication network, or computational resources in the cloud.
16. 16. The analytics entity of claim 14 or 15, wherein the policy comprises any combination of a Vertical Application Layer server policy, a Network slice management Policy, a mobile network operator policy, a network slice capability enablement service policy.
17. 17. The analytics entity of any of claims 12 to 16, wherein the potential conflict condition comprises either a direct conflict, an indirect conflict, or an implicit conflict.
18. 18. The analytics entity of any of claims 12 to 17, wherein the requirement for configuring a communication parameter is predictive.
19. 19. The analytics entity of any of claims 12 to 18, wherein the at least one external application is at least one of an AF, an application service, and a device application.
20. 20. The analytics entity of any of claims 12 to 19, wherein the received analytics information comprises any combination of offline and online analytics.

Description

PREDICTING CONFLICTING COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to the field of predicting conflicting communication parameters in a wireless communication network. This document defines a node of a wireless communications platform, a method performed in a node of a wireless communications platform, an analytics entity, and a method performed by analytics entity. BACKGROUND [0002] A wireless communications system may include one or multiple network communication devices, such as base stations, which may support wireless communications for one or multiple user communication devices, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE), or other suitable terminology. The wireless communications system may support wireless communications with one or multiple user communication devices by utilizing resources of the wireless communication system (e.g., time resources (e.g., symbols, slots, subframes, frames, or the like) or frequency resources (e.g., subcarriers, carriers, or the like). Additionally, the wireless communications system may support wireless communications across various radio access technologies including third generation (3G) radio access technology, fourth generation (4G) radio access technology, fifth generation (5G) radio access technology, among other suitable radio access technologies beyond 5G (e.g., sixth generation (6G)). SUMMARY [0003] An article “a” before an element is unrestricted and understood to refer to “at least one” of those elements or “one or more” of those elements. The terms “a,” “at least one,” “one or more,” and “at least one of one or more” may be interchangeable. As used herein, including in the claims, “or” as used in a list of items (e.g., a list of items prefaced by a phrase such as “at least one of’ or “one or more of’ or “one or both of’) indicates an inclusive list such that, for example, a list of at least one of A, B, or C means A or B or C or AB or AC or BC or ABC (i.e., A and B and C). Also, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall not be construed as a reference to a closed set of conditions. For example, an example step that is described as “based on condition A” may be based on both a condition A and a condition B without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. In other words, as used herein, the phrase “based on” shall be construed in the same manner as the phrase “based at least in part on. Further, as used herein, including in the claims, a “set” may include one or more elements. [0004] Accordingly, there is provided a node of a wireless communications platform, the node comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the node to: obtain a requirement for configuring a communication parameter from at least one external application; detect a trigger to evaluate a potential conflict condition, the trigger determined based on the obtained requirement; request analytics information to support evaluating the potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for the obtained requirement; receive analytics information; detect a potential conflict condition based on the received analytics; and notify the potential conflict condition to the at least one external application. [0005] There is further provided a method at a node of a wireless communications platform, the method comprising: obtaining a requirement for configuring a communication parameter from at least one external application; detecting a trigger to evaluate a potential conflict condition, the trigger determined based on the obtained requirement; requesting analytics information to support evaluating the potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for the obtained requirement; receiving analytics information; detecting a potential conflict condition based on the received analytics; and notifying the potential conflict condition to the at least one external application. [0006] There is further provided an analytics entity comprising: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the analytics entity to: receive a request from a wireless communications platform, the request for analytics information to support evaluating a potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for a requirement; and send analytics information to the wireless communications platform in response to the request. [0007] There is further provided a method at an analytics entity, the method comprising: receiving a request from a wireless communications platform, the request for analytics information to support evaluating a potential conflict condition, wherein the analytics information relate to detecting conflict for a requirement; and sending analyt