US Patent Application 17440441. NETWORK SLICING WITH RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) SHARING simplified abstract

NETWORK SLICING WITH RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) SHARING

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN)

Ralf Rossbach of Munich (DE)

Sudeep Manithara Vamanan of Nuremberg (DE)

Mona Agnel of Guildford (GB)

Krisztian Kiss of Hayward CA (US)

Sarma V. Vangala of Campbell CA (US)

Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US)

Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US)

Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US)

Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US)

Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN)

Huarui Liang of Beijing (CN)

NETWORK SLICING WITH RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) SHARING - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17440441 titled 'NETWORK SLICING WITH RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) SHARING

Simplified Explanation

The abstract describes an approach for a base station to generate and transmit messages to a user equipment (UE).

• The base station generates a first message associated with a cell it supports, containing a PLMN identity index and a list of network slices supported by the PLMN.
• The base station also generates a second message associated with neighboring cells, containing the same PLMN identity index and a list of network slice data supported by the neighboring cells.
• The second message includes a sub-list of neighboring cell data within the network slice data.
• The purpose of these messages is to provide information about network slices and neighboring cells to the UE.

Original Abstract Submitted

An approach is described for a base station to generate a first message and a second message. The base station transmits the first message and the second message to a user equipment (UE). The first message is associated with a cell supported by the base station and includes a first public land mobile network (PLMN) identity index and a first list of one or more network slices supported by a first PLMN associated with the first PLMN identity index. The second message is associated with one or more neighboring cells, and includes the first PLMN identity index and a second list of one or more network slice data associated the first PLMN as supported by the one or more neighboring cells. In addition, at least one of the one or more network slice data in the second list includes a sub-list of one or more neighboring cell data.