Private-Public Mobile Network Orchestration for Unified Slices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional private and public mobile networks are managed separately, leading to segregated configuration, performance, and telemetry data, hindering the wide deployment of integrated private mobile networks.

Innovation Solution

A Private Mobile Network (PMN) Orchestrator manages both standalone and virtual private mobile networks, providing a single pane of glass for configuration and monitoring, and enabling seamless extension across public mobile networks using a shared RIC for coordinated policy enforcement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If private and public mobile networks are managed separately, then each network can be independently configured and controlled, but configuration data, performance metrics, and telemetry data become segregated, hindering wide deployment of integrated private mobile networks

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegration capabilityVSAvoidsegregation of configuration and performance data

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines separate private and public network management systems into a unified orchestrator that manages both networks through a single interface. The orchestrator consolidates configuration data, performance metrics, and telemetry data from both networks, eliminating data segregation and enabling integrated management while maintaining independent network operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The orchestrator is designed as a universal management system that can handle multiple network types (private and public) through common interfaces and data structures. It provides multi-functional capabilities including configuration management, performance monitoring, and policy enforcement across heterogeneous networks, replacing multiple specialized management systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If a unified orchestrator manages both private and public networks, then administrative complexity is reduced and scalability is improved, but the device complexity and orchestration requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadministrative complexityVSAvoidorchestrator complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The orchestrator is segmented into modular functional components including configuration management modules, performance monitoring modules, policy enforcement modules, and network-specific adaptation layers. This segmentation allows the complex system to be built from manageable, independent units that can be developed, deployed, and maintained separately while working together as a unified system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The orchestrator introduces standardized intermediary interfaces and abstraction layers between the complex internal management logic and the external networks. These intermediaries handle protocol translation, data normalization, and interface standardization, shielding administrators from underlying complexity while enabling unified management of diverse networks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If network slices are extended across public and private networks, then resource allocation is optimized and SLA compliance is enhanced, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring performance metrics increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource allocation efficiencyVSAvoidperformance metric measurement

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The orchestrator implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms that continuously collect performance metrics from both public and private network slices, compare them against SLA requirements, and automatically adjust resource allocation. The system establishes closed-loop feedback paths that measure end-to-end performance across network boundaries and use this information to optimize resource distribution and maintain service level agreements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual performance measurement and resource allocation methods with automated electronic monitoring and orchestration systems. The orchestrator uses software-based metric collection, analysis, and adjustment mechanisms that substitute for traditional manual network management approaches, enabling precise measurement and optimization of cross-network slice performance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentEP4625929A1Service management and orchestration for private and public mobile networks

Publication Date: 2025.10.01 JUNIPER NETWORKS INC

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AI summary

A Private Mobile Network (PMN) orchestrator sends, to a controller for a public mobile network, a message indicating one or more network functions for a private mobile network slice for a private mobile network and configuration information for the private mobile network slice. In some examples, the message is a Global System for Mobile communications Association (GSMA) NEtwork Slice Type (NEST) extended to specify the one or more network functions for the private mobile network slice and the configuration information for the private mobile network slice. The message enables the public mobile network to deploy a public mobile network slice that extends the private mobile network slice.