A communication system includes a first radio access apparatus, a second radio access apparatus, and a radio terminal that is enabled to simultaneously communicate with the first radio access apparatus and the second radio access apparatus. The communication system acquires service characteristic information that indicates a characteristic of a service provided to the radio terminal and determines a type of a communication path for downlink user data used for provision of the service to the radio terminal, from among a plurality of types of communication paths, based on the service characteristic information.

A communication method includes: sending, by a policy control network element, first query information to a data analytics network element, where the first query information is used to obtain service quality information; and receiving, by the policy control network element, first response information sent by the data analytics network element, where the first response information includes the quality information that is of the service and that is requested using the first query information.

Systems and methods for orchestrating a virtualized 5G gNB are provided. In one example, a system for orchestrating wireless service includes a scalable cloud environment configured to implement a base station using a plurality of virtualized base station entities. Each virtualized base station entity of the plurality of virtualized base station entities configured to implement at least some functions for one or more layers of a wireless interface used to communicate with UEs. The scalable cloud environment further configured to implement a service orchestration tool including one or more interfaces configured to receive common configuration parameters that are applicable to multiple sites of an operator and to receive site-specific configuration parameters that are unique to respective sites of the operator. The service orchestration tool configured to automatically generate deployment files for the plurality of virtualized base station entities based on the common configuration parameters and the site-specific configuration parameters.

A system and method of providing quality of service (QoS) control for a specific user equipment (UE) in a slice. The system and method include receiving, by a Session Management Function (SMF) from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a request for a quality of service (QoS) flow for a wireless communication device; determining, by the SMF responsive to receiving the request, a flow bit rate for the QoS flow; and transmitting, by the SMF to a repository through a Unified Data Management (UDM), a message causing the UDM to update a total flow bit rate in use according to the flow bit rate.

A system and method of providing quality of service (QoS) control for a specific user equipment (UE) in a slice. The system and method include receiving, by a Session Management Function (SMF) from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a request for a quality of service (QoS) flow for a wireless communication device; determining, by the SMF responsive to receiving the request, a flow bit rate for the QoS flow; and transmitting, by the SMF to a repository through a Unified Data Management (UDM), a message causing the UDM to update a total flow bit rate in use according to the flow bit rate.

Embodiments are directed to intelligent scheduling of Wi-Fi services for applications. An embodiment of computer-readable storage mediums includes instructions for receiving data packets from multiple connected devices at a wireless access point and identifying an application traffic flow for each data packet; assigning each data packet to a respective queue of a first set of queues based on an identified application traffic flow for each data packet; selecting data packets from the first set of queues based on priorities for each of multiple applications; generating prioritized candidate lists for selected data packets in a second set of queues, each queue being dedicated for an access category for one or more application; and scheduling data packets from the candidate lists, including selecting a transmission mode for each access category based on characteristics of the one or more applications.

The present invention provides an electronic device, a method, and a chip for sending data. The method includes: When a terminal device is in a dual-connectivity state, the terminal device determines a foreground application that is currently being run. When the application that is being run in a foreground is a present application, the terminal device further determines whether that is being of to-be-sent data is a data packet of a present type or a hardware resource occupation status of the terminal device; and sends the data packet of the present type, respectively sends the two data packets through two links, to implement transmission accuracy of sensitive data.

A system may provide for the design and/or modification of network slices associated with a wireless network. The wireless network may include different slices that are associated different sets of service parameters. Slices may include radio access networks (“RANs”), core networks, or other types of networks, which may include respective sets of network functions (“NFs”), which may perform specific functions with respect to a given RAN and/or core network. Different slices, RANs, core networks, and/or NFs may be associated with particular policies and/or tags which may be specified by one or more users associated with a first access level. One or more users associated with a second access level may configure portions of the wireless network, and the policies and/or tags associated with particular slices, RANs, core networks, or NFs may be automatically implemented by an orchestration system that configures the wireless network based on the provided configuration information.

A communication method includes: sending, by a policy control network element, first query information to a data analytics network element, where the first query information is used to obtain service quality information; and receiving, by the policy control network element, first response information sent by the data analytics network element, where the first response information includes the quality information that is of the service and that is requested using the first query information.

A method for orchestrating use of a communications network for conveying a plurality of data streams transmitted by a plurality of applications includes attributing levels of importance to individual or groups of data streams, determining based at least in part on the levels of importance and on network capacity requirements of the data streams an ordered list of data streams to be curtailed or stopped in case of a shortage of bandwidth in the communications network, providing the list to a management entity that monitors available bandwidth, compares available bandwidth to a combined bandwidth requirement and, in response to determining that the available bandwidth is, or is imminent to become, less than the combined bandwidth requirement, curtails or stops data streams in the order given by the list so as to bring the combined bandwidth requirement back to or below the available bandwidth.