Various arrangements for performing navigation based on characteristics of a cellular network are provided. A quality of experience (QoE) level required for a wireless service to be performed for a networked device may be determined. A current location and a destination for a vehicle may be determined. A wireless network coverage area map may be accessed that maps network performance characteristics for the cellular network across a geographic region. A navigation route from the current location to the destination based on the wireless network coverage area map and the determined QoE may be determined. The determined navigational route may be output to a navigation system.

A communication system is disclosed in which communication resources are dynamically partitioned into a plurality of slices, each slice having at least one associated network-level performance requirement. A network-level performance requirement is translated into cell-level resource requirement(s) for determining, based on the cell-level resource requirement(s), whether to admit a slice instance. When the slice instance is admitted, information identifying the cell-level resource requirement(s) for the slice instance is provided to a scheduler function. The cell-level resource requirement(s) for a given slice instance may be used to determine an associated packet delivery deadline and entitled resource amount before deadline. The scheduler function allocates communication resources to each admitted slice based on an earliest-deadline-first method.

A communication system is disclosed in which communication resources are dynamically partitioned into a plurality of slices, each slice having at least one associated network-level performance requirement. A network-level performance requirement is translated into cell-level resource requirement(s) for determining, based on the cell-level resource requirement(s), whether to admit a slice instance. When the slice instance is admitted, information identifying the cell-level resource requirement(s) for the slice instance is provided to a scheduler function. The cell-level resource requirement(s) for a given slice instance may be used to determine an associated packet delivery deadline and entitled resource amount before deadline. The scheduler function allocates communication resources to each admitted slice based on an earliest-deadline-first method.

A network quality determining method includes, when experience quality represented by a customer experience index of a target user within a first time period is lower than experience quality represented by a customer experience index threshold, determining, using a first parameter value that is of a network key performance indicator (KPI) parameter of the target user within a second time period and that is collected by a collection device in a carrier network, a second parameter value of the network KPI parameter of the target user within the second time period in a home network, and when network quality represented by the second parameter value of the network KPI parameter is lower than network quality represented by a first threshold corresponding to the network KPI parameter in the home network, determining that quality of the home network is poor.

A network quality determining method includes, when experience quality represented by a customer experience index of a target user within a first time period is lower than experience quality represented by a customer experience index threshold, determining, using a first parameter value that is of a network key performance indicator (KPI) parameter of the target user within a second time period and that is collected by a collection device in a carrier network, a second parameter value of the network KPI parameter of the target user within the second time period in a home network, and when network quality represented by the second parameter value of the network KPI parameter is lower than network quality represented by a first threshold corresponding to the network KPI parameter in the home network, determining that quality of the home network is poor.

Systems and methods provided for a sensor certificate lifecycle manager for a network management system of an enterprise network for the automated generation of unique certificates for sensors used to act like a client device in the enterprise network for the purposes of troubleshooting. Furthermore, the network management and command center in association with the sensor certificate lifecycle manager manages a pool of signed unique certificates and have control over the lifecycle of such certificates, such as for revoking, transferring, and reassigning certificates for the sensors.

In one embodiment, a device obtains application experience metrics for an online application. The device predicts, based on the application experience metrics, future application experience metrics for each of a set of provider endpoints for the online application. The device selects, based on the future application experience metrics, a particular provider endpoint from among the set of provider endpoints. The device provides, to a Domain Name System (DNS) resolver, resolution information for one or more of the set of provider endpoints that causes a query for one of those provider endpoints to resolve to an address of the particular provider endpoint.

Described are examples for providing service level monitoring for a network hosting applications as a cloud service. A service level monitoring device may receive end-to-end measurements of service usage collected at user devices for a plurality of applications hosted as a cloud services. The service level monitoring device may determine degraded applications of the plurality of applications based on anomalies in the measurements. The service level monitoring device may determine a service level metric based on an aggregation of the degraded applications. In some examples, the service level monitoring device may detect a network outage affecting the service.

A method for determining analytics for service experience for a Network Slice instance in a network comprising one or more network entities is provided. The method includes obtaining first information for determining a mapping between a set of one or more user equipment (UEs) and a set of one or more Network Slice instances, obtaining second information for determining the analytics of the set of one or more UEs, and determining the analytics for a Network Slice instance based on the first information and the second information.

A technique for analyzing Quality of Experience, QoE, of a delay critical robotic application in a cloud robotics system is disclosed, the robotic application involving use of a cloud based service by a robot, the service being provided to the robot from a cloud using a connection over a mobile communication network. A method implementation of the technique comprises triggering (S202) determining whether a QoE measure associated with the robotic application exceeds a threshold to assess whether QoE degradation is present, and, when it is determined that QoE degradation is present, triggering (S204) identifying a root cause for the QoE degradation based on one or more performance indicators observed within the mobile communication network and associated with the connection.