Universal Orchestrator Framework for 5G Service Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cellular wireless network frameworks and pattern cause communication service providers to spend a significant portion of their budget on integration and routing operations, leaving little bandwidth for innovative services and technologies, and fail to bridge the gap between network service consumers and producers, resulting in inflexibility and high maintenance costs.
Innovation Solution
An open framework for a universal orchestrator in a 5G Service Platform with a unified configuration-oriented template pattern and built-in engine that enables recursive usage across multiple layers, supporting programmable and scalable network services by mapping technical services to business logic requirements and facilitating dynamic updates and synchronization across network domains and service producers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional integration and routing operations are used for network service provisioning, then network services can be delivered, but service providers spend a major percentage of budget on integration and routing with no unified service framework, leaving little bandwidth for innovative services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Service Marketplace as an intermediary layer between network service consumers and network service producers. This marketplace includes a service catalog, service registry, and orchestration functions that mediate service provisioning, eliminating the need for direct complex integration between consumers and multiple producers. The intermediary handles service discovery, matching, and coordination, thereby reducing integration complexity while enabling service innovation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal service framework that can handle multiple types of network services (e.g., network slicing, QoS management, security services) through a single unified marketplace architecture. This multi-functional platform provides common capabilities for service registration, discovery, provisioning, and orchestration that work across different service types and domains, reducing the need for separate integration mechanisms for each service category.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional BSS/OSS integration with network elements is used, then operational procedures can be executed, but the integration is tightly coupled requiring fixed customized steps for each individual use case, providing no flexibility to support service consumer variations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the traditionally monolithic BSS/OSS integration into modular, loosely-coupled components within the service marketplace. Individual service functions (service registration, discovery, provisioning, orchestration) are separated into independent modules that can be configured and composed differently for various service consumer needs. This segmentation allows flexible assembly of orchestration workflows without requiring complete redesign for each use case.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic orchestration capabilities where service workflows and provisioning processes can be adapted in real-time based on service consumer requirements. The service marketplace supports dynamic service composition and configurable orchestration paths, allowing the system to flexibly respond to different service consumer needs without fixed customized steps for each use case.
3Ease of manufacture
If each NF/domain controller is treated as a moving target on the network service producer side, then individual network functions can be managed, but this traditionally results in significant cost, complexity and endless maintenance efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables network service producers to self-register their services, capabilities, and interfaces with the service marketplace through standardized APIs and protocols. Services automatically become discoverable and provisionable once registered, eliminating manual configuration and reducing maintenance overhead. The system supports self-describing services that automatically integrate into the marketplace ecosystem without requiring continuous manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the management approach from handling individual moving target NFs to managing services through standardized parameters and interfaces. The service marketplace abstracts underlying network function variations through unified service descriptors and capability models, allowing services to be provisioned and managed based on stable, standardized parameters rather than volatile implementation details of individual NFs.
4Ease of operation
If no bridge exists between network service consumer and producer, then technical services remain isolated across multiple domains, but this prevents mapping technical services to non-technical requirements of service consumers based on business logic
Solution Approach 1:
The service marketplace acts as a bridging intermediary that translates between non-technical service consumer requirements (business logic, user journeys) and technical network services. The marketplace includes service catalog functions and matching mechanisms that map consumer needs to appropriate technical services across multiple domains, making complex network capabilities accessible through simplified, business-oriented interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates abstract service models and templates that represent complex technical services in simplified forms consumable by non-technical users. Service descriptors, capability models, and standardized interfaces create virtual representations of underlying network functions, allowing consumers to interact with simplified copies or models of complex services without needing to understand the underlying technical complexity.
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AI summary
Example embodiments are directed towards an open framework for an open framework for a universal orchestrator for a services platform in a 5G wireless network. The open framework provides a unified configuration-oriented template pattern and a built-in engine that enables recursive usage from multiple layers of service relay. This supports programmable and scalable network service with dynamic service updates and synchronization crossing network domains and service producers (e.g., network service vendors) while facilitating a northbound service innovation ecosystem by converting/mapping the technical oriented services to a general purpose user journey. The framework determines a plurality of applicable technical services for provisioning the network service request based on the mapping of the technical service categories and dependencies between technical services from different domain and infrastructure layer.