System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
1. A system for spectrum utilization management in a wireless network comprising:
a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice;
a wireless network resource optimization application in the MEC layer;
a Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) operable to select suitable network slice instances for at least one application; and
a virtualized interface;
wherein the MEC layer is in communication with a radio access network (RAN) and a core network;
wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to optimize network resources based on a quality of service (QoS) required by the at least one application and a customer goals index vector;
wherein the customer goals index vector includes a binary vector;
wherein the MEC layer supports cloud computing for the network slice;
wherein the virtualized interface includes management and orchestration (MANO);
wherein the MANO is operable to coordinate the network resources and network services; and
wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide traffic steering to route network traffic.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to send the network traffic to an Internet of Things (IoT) device.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to send the network traffic to a cloud service provider.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to transfer the network traffic to a MEC application with sufficient resources for the network traffic.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide media streaming services for the at least one application.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide gaming services for the at least one application.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services for the at least one application.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the MANO is operable to create network slices.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE includes an application instance of the at least one application from a first MEC host, wherein the application instance of the at least one application is operable to be transferred to a second MEC host upon a change of location of the UE without disruption of service of the at least one application to the UE.
10. A system for spectrum utilization management in a wireless network comprising:
a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice;
a wireless network resource optimization application in the MEC layer;
a machine learning (ML) engine; and
a virtualized interface;
wherein the MEC layer is in communication with a radio access network (RAN) and a core network;
wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to optimize network resources based on a quality of service (QoS) required by at least one application;
wherein the MEC layer supports cloud computing for the network slice;
wherein the virtualized interface includes management and orchestration (MANO);
wherein the MANO is operable to create network slices;
wherein the MANO is operable to coordinate the network resources and network services;
wherein the network resources of the wireless network are further operable to be optimized based on a customer goals index vector;
wherein the customer goals index vector includes a binary vector;
wherein the ML engine is operable to make predictions about the electromagnetic environment based on data from the electromagnetic environment; and
wherein the MEC layer is operable to route network traffic.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to send the network traffic to an Internet of Things (IoT) device.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to support at least one healthcare application.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide media streaming services for the at least one application.
14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide gaming services for the at least one application.
15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to provide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services for the at least one application.
16. A system for spectrum utilization management in a wireless network comprising:
a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) layer in a network slice;
a wireless network resource optimization application in the MEC layer;
a Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) operable to select suitable network slice instances for at least one application; and
a virtualized interface;
wherein the MEC layer is in communication with a radio access network (RAN) and a core network;
wherein the wireless network resource optimization application is operable to optimize network resources based on a quality of service (QoS) required by the at least one application and a customer goals index vector;
wherein the customer goals index vector includes a binary vector;
wherein the virtualized interface includes management and orchestration (MANO);
wherein the MANO is operable to coordinate the network resources and network services;
wherein the MEC layer includes a user plane function (UPF) operable to connect to the RAN and steer traffic to at least one MEC application; and
wherein the MEC layer is operable to route network traffic.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the MEC layer is operable to send the network traffic to a cloud service provider from a cloud wrapper MEC application.
18. The system of claim 16 , further comprising a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE includes an application instance of the at least one application from a first MEC host, wherein the application instance of the at least one application is operable to be transferred to a second MEC host upon a change of location of the UE without disruption of service of the at least one application to the UE.