5G Network Slice Orchestration via Holochain Transactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
5G network slicing lacks mechanisms for efficient capacity planning and resource sharing across different service providers, as user equipment devices must maintain detailed service and slice requirements without historical utilization data, and there is no standardized way to associate software-as-a-service provider slices across multiple service providers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing Holochain transactions within the 5G network to capture and share network slice policy and utilization information, allowing for capacity planning and distributed sharing of resources and services across service providers, with policy-based access control and privacy preservation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If network slicing divides resources into multiple logical layers to serve different applications in parallel, then resource sharing efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases as user equipment must maintain detailed service and slice requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized network slice management entity that acts as an intermediary between user equipment and the network core. This entity maintains the slice requirements and utilization history centrally, eliminating the need for each UE to store detailed slice information locally. The management entity receives slice requests, queries historical utilization data, and makes capacity planning decisions, thereby reducing UE complexity while maintaining efficient resource sharing through centralized intelligence.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the receiving AMF/MME creates or provides slice details based on UE requests, then service customization is improved, but loss of information occurs because the receiving entity lacks knowledge of historical utilization in each slice
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where slice utilization history and performance data are continuously collected from the network core and stored in a centralized database. When a UE requests a slice, the management entity queries this historical data to inform capacity planning decisions. This feedback loop ensures that the receiving AMF/MME can make informed decisions about slice creation or reuse, maintaining service customization while preventing information loss about historical utilization patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-calculating and storing slice utilization metrics and capacity planning data in advance in a centralized database. When a slice request arrives, the management entity can immediately query pre-computed historical data rather than gathering information in real-time. This preliminary preparation ensures that service customization is maintained while preventing information loss, as the historical context is already available when needed for decision-making.
3Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises subscribe to SaaS providers across multiple network slices and service providers, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information occurs without a mechanism to associate slices with SaaS providers across different service providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal slice identification and association mechanism that works across multiple service providers and SaaS platforms. The centralized management entity maintains a unified database that correlates slice identifiers with SaaS provider information and enterprise subscriptions. This universal approach enables enterprises to subscribe to SaaS services across different service providers while maintaining consistent slice associations, thereby improving adaptability without losing information about cross-provider slice relationships.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a first entity of a 5G network identifies an action that the first entity would like performed in the 5G network. The first entity of the 5G network sends a signed Holochain transaction indicative of the action to a second entity of the 5G network. The second entity of the 5G network generates a mutually-signed Holochain transaction by signing the signed Holochain transaction. The first entity of the 5G network receives the mutually-signed Holochain transaction from the second entity of the 5G network. The first entity of the 5G network publishes the mutually-signed Holochain transaction to a distributed hash table.