Model based predictive interference management
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for model based predictive interference management. One method includes receiving at least one monitoring report from a device. The method includes determining a monitoring event report based on a subscription and the at least one monitoring report. The method includes providing the providing the monitoring event report to an application.
1 . A method performed by a network function, the method comprising:
receiving, from a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC), at least one monitoring report from a device, wherein the at least one monitoring report comprises one or more of radio resource utilization information, quality-of-service (QoS) information, or backhaul information;
determining a monitoring event report indicating that a performance metric for a user equipment (UE) or the device has changed, wherein the monitoring event report is determined based on a subscription and the at least one monitoring report; and
providing the monitoring event report to an application.
2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a predictive inter-cell interference management policy from the application;
determining at least one radio parameter corresponding to the predictive inter-cell interference management policy; and
transmitting the at least one radio parameter based on the predictive inter-cell interference management policy to the device.
3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the predictive inter-cell interference management policy comprises one or more of a cell identifier (ID), an application ID, a group of UE IDs, a network slice ID, a central unit (CU) ID, a distributed unit (DU) ID, a current policy ID, a new policy ID, a current traffic steering policy ID, a new traffic steering policy ID, a confidence level parameter, an enforcement flag, a time validity indicator, or an area indicator.
4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one radio parameter comprises one or more of an overload indication, a high interference indication, a relative narrowband transmit power, almost blank subframe pattern information, a coordinated multipoint coordination area, a coordinated multipoint scheme, a resource restriction, a handover request indication, a source cell ID, a target cell ID, a frequency selection indication, a radio access technology selection indication, a radio interface selection indication, a distributed unit selection indication, or a central unit (CU) selection indication.
5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the predictive inter-cell interference management policy is provided to the device via an application exposure function.
6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a subscription request for the subscription from the application.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring event report comprises one or more of a cell identifier (ID), a UE ID, a network slice ID, a resource ID, a resource pool ID, a UE quality of experience downgrade indication, a UE quality of service downgrade indication, a high resource load indication, a high radio access network delay indication, a low backhaul resource availability indication, a quality of service fluctuation indication, a radio link failure indication, a bandwidth adaptation requirement, a radio resource adaptation requirement, or a traffic steering requirement.
8 . An apparatus for performing a network function, the apparatus comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive, from a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC), at least one monitoring report from a device, wherein the at least one monitoring report comprises one or more of radio resource utilization information, quality-of-service (QoS) information, or backhaul information;
determines a monitoring event report indicating that a performance metric for a user equipment (UE) or the device has changed, wherein the monitoring event report is determined based on a subscription and the at least one monitoring report; and
provides the monitoring event report to an application.
9 . A method performed by a network function, the method comprising:
receiving a predictive inter-cell interference management policy from at least one application, wherein the predictive inter-cell interference management policy comprises interference mitigation parameters comprising an enforcement flag, a time validity window, and priority information and associated enforcement conditions;
determining, based on the predictive inter-cell interference management policy and a radio resource condition, at least one radio parameter for configuring a radio access network (RAN) node, wherein determining comprises selecting resource allocation parameters from a set of pre-defined interference management schemes; and
transmitting the at least one radio parameter to a middleware function or to the RAN node, wherein the at least one radio parameter is used to configure the RAN node for interference mitigation over a time interval.
10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the predictive inter-cell interference management policy comprises one or more of a cell identifier (ID), an application ID, a group of UE IDs, a network slice ID, a central unit (CU) ID, a distributed unit (DU) ID, a current policy ID, a new policy ID, a current traffic steering policy ID, a new traffic steering policy ID, a confidence level parameter, an enforcement flag, a time validity indicator, or an area indicator.
11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the at least one radio parameter comprises one or more of an overload indication, a high interference indication, a relative narrowband transmit power, almost blank subframe pattern information, a coordinated multipoint coordination area, a coordinated multipoint scheme, a resource restriction, a handover request indication, a source cell ID, a target cell ID, a frequency selection indication, a radio access technology selection indication, a radio interface selection indication, a distributed unit selection indication, or a central unit (CU) selection indication.
12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the RAN node comprises at least one network unit, or at least one UE, or both.
13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the at least one radio parameter is further determined based on at least one predefined rule corresponding to an application type, or a service type, or both.
14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the predefined rule comprises one or more of a key performance indicator, a service type ID, an application type ID, a RAN ID, a network slice profile, a service profile, a quality of service target, a quality of experience target, a priority ID, or an application quality of service-to-network quality of service mapping information.
15 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
receiving at least one monitoring report from the RAN node;
determining a monitoring event report based on a subscription and the at least one monitoring report; and
transmitting the monitoring event report to an application.
16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving a subscription request for the subscription from the application.
17 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the monitoring report comprises one or more of a UE quality of service (QoS) parameter, a UE quality of experience (QoE) parameter, a radio resource quality parameter, a computational RAN resource load parameter, a central unit (CU) load, a distribute unit (DU) load, a channel state information (CSI), a radio resource management measurement, a radio link monitoring measurement, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI), a reference signal received power (RSRP) parameter, or a handover failure monitoring parameter.
18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the monitoring report further comprising one or more of a backhaul radio resource quality parameter, a backhaul CSI, a backhaul radio resource management measurement, a backhaul radio link monitoring measurement, a backhaul topology parameter, or a backhaul type parameter.
19 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the monitoring event report is determined based on one or more of offline UE analytics, online UE analytics, or radio resource quality analytics.
20 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the monitoring event report comprises one or more of a cell identifier (ID), a UE ID, a network slice ID, a resource ID, a resource pool ID, a UE quality of experience downgrade indication, a UE quality of service downgrade indication, a high resource load indication, a high radio access network delay indication, a low backhaul resource availability indication, a quality of service fluctuation indication, a radio link failure indication, a bandwidth adaptation requirement, a radio resource adaptation requirement, or a traffic steering requirement.