Provided is a technology for executing a virtualized network function in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a server may obtain traffic processing information and mobile edge computing (MEC) service usage information regarding user equipments (UEs) that have accessed a plurality of base stations connected to the server, obtain, based on the traffic processing information and the MEC service usage information, information about traffic to occur due to UEs accessing the plurality of base stations and MEC services to be used by the UEs, and determine, based on the obtained information about the traffic and usage of the MEC services, at least one hardware component on which a software component virtualizing a network function in the server is to be executed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including detecting, by a processing system comprising a processor, wireless communication servers that are available for providing content via first wireless communication links to a wireless communication system, receiving unused data capacity information from the wireless communication servers, aggregating comprising a processor, the unused data capacity information from the wireless communication servers to identify broadband bandwidth, receiving, by the processing system, a request for first content from a customer premises device, assigning a first portion of the broadband bandwidth for receiving the first content from the wireless communication servers, requesting the first content from the wireless communication servers according to the assigning, receiving the first content from the wireless communication servers, and transmitting the first content to the customer premises device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A session management function (SMF) may include one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the SMF to perform operations. The operations may include selecting a user plane function based on a device type of a wireless device, responsive to a session establishment request to establish a packet data unit (PDU) session for the wireless device. An indication of the device type may be provided with the session establishment request. The operations may also include sending, to the user plane function, reporting rules based on a charging policy received from a policy control function (PCF) responsive to a charging policy request to the PCF.

Systems and methods may provide for establishing a data usage budget based on one or more of user input and historical usage data, wherein the data usage budget distinguishes between usage types and distinguishes between connection types. Additionally, a data usage of one or more client devices may be monitored in accordance with the data usage budget. In one example, the usage types are designated as one or more of a high bandwidth usage and a low bandwidth usage and the connection types are designated as one or more of a capped connection and a non-capped connection.

A floor control for a video application operating on a wireless device employing a video bearer may be modified by a video application function (AF). A policy and charging rules function (PCRF) may receive from the video AF, a first request, in response to the modifying the floor control. The first request may comprise one or more quality of service (QoS) parameters indicating a QoS of the video bearer. The PCRF may decide one or more policy and charging control (PCC) provisions for the QoS provided for the video application. The PCRF may transmit to a policy charging enforcement function (PCEF), a second request comprising the one or more PCC provisions for the QoS. The PCEF may enforce the one or more PCC provisions for the QoS on a popularity of packet transmitted via the video bearer to the wireless device.

A policy control function receives, from a mission critical video (MCVideo) application function, a DIAMETER AA-Request (AAR) command comprising an attribute value pair (AVP) comprising an MCVideo-identifier identifying an MCVideo service. The policy control function sends, to a network function, a Diameter command comprising one or more QoS policies based on the MCVideo-identifier.

A system and method for resolving an unsatisfactory quality of experience (QoE) for an application executed on a wireless device that accesses a CSP network is described. A QoE network appliance generates an integrated event stream that includes a RAN data set, a CN data set, a NWDAF data set, a QoE latency measurement, a QoE bandwidth measurement, and a QoE packet loss rate measurement. A measured QoE score is generated with the RAN data set, the CN data set, and the NWDAF data set. The measured QoE score is associated with a QoE latency measurement, a QoE bandwidth measurement, and a QoE packet loss rate measurement. A robotics process automation (RPA) module receives the integrated event stream when the measured QoE score fails to satisfy the QoE requirement. The RPA module performs one or more automated actions to improve the measured QoE based on information from the integrated event stream.

In a wireless communication network, distributed ledger circuitry executes a contract from an origin block and transfers an instantiation request for a wireless network slice to network orchestration circuitry. The network orchestration circuitry instantiates the wireless network slice responsive to the instantiation request from the distributed ledger circuitry. The wireless network slice delivers a wireless network service to the UEs and transfers slice usage data to the distributed ledger circuitry. The distributed ledger circuitry executes the contract from middle blocks and a termination block to form a blockchain that stores the slice usage data for the wireless network slice. The distributed ledger circuitry transfers a termination request for the wireless network slice to the network orchestration circuitry responsive to the execution of the contract from the termination block. The network orchestration circuitry terminates the wireless network slice responsive to the termination request from the distributed ledger circuitry.

A method includes determining a broadband bandwidth and a resource usage pattern, according to unused data capacity information that is based on monitoring data capacity retained by wireless communication servers, and assigning a first portion of the broadband bandwidth for receiving first content from the wireless communication servers. The assigning of the first portion of the broadband bandwidth causes a first mapping of the first content for delivery by a first group of the wireless communication servers according to the first portion of the broadband bandwidth. The method further includes assigning a second portion of the broadband bandwidth for receiving second content from the wireless communication servers, which causes a second mapping of the second content for delivery by a second group of the wireless communication servers according to the second portion of the broadband bandwidth, and determining a time period for receiving the second content from the second group of the wireless communication servers according to the resource usage pattern.

The present invention provides a bandwidth-sharing, intelligent network switching system, wherein the system comprises a control processing unit, a network sharing user device, and a network user device. The control processing unit is connected to a third-party payment system, a location search module, a WiFi hotspot search module, bandwidth analysis module, and an authentication module. The control processing unit is further connected to the network sharing user device and the network user device. The network sharing user device shares network access with the network user device via the control processing unit, sets a price for bandwidth, and charges the network user device the price for the shared network access.