WWC Service Integrity Detection With AI Resource Re-Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network technologies struggle to seamlessly integrate wireless and wireline services, lacking comprehensive network optimization and self-healing capabilities that ensure service integrity across diverse access, transport, and core networks.
Innovation Solution
An end-to-end WWC architecture with a Service and Slice Management Orchestration (S-SMO) system, utilizing technology-independent service and network resource abstraction layers, and intelligent controllers to dynamically select and re-route resources, supported by AI models for real-time detection and healing of service-related issues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If wireless and wireline services are developed independently with separate infrastructure, then each service can be optimized for its specific requirements, but network costs increase and resource efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges wireless and wireline network infrastructures into a unified WWC architecture, where common network elements (CNES) provide shared resources for both service types. This consolidation reduces duplicate infrastructure, lowers network costs, and improves resource efficiency while maintaining service-specific optimization through virtualization and abstraction layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universal network elements that can serve multiple functions across different service types. The resource abstraction layer and service chaining mechanism enable a single physical infrastructure to dynamically allocate resources to either wireless or wireline services based on demand, achieving multi-functionality without sacrificing service-specific performance requirements.
2Loss of energy
If wireless and wireline services share common infrastructure, then network costs are reduced and resource efficiency improves, but service integrity and reliability become harder to ensure across heterogeneous networks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service chaining mechanism that orchestrates multiple network elements to deliver services across heterogeneous wireless and wireline networks. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of infrastructure differences, ensuring service integrity by managing resource allocation, fault isolation, and seamless handovers between different access types while maintaining unified service quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the unified infrastructure into distinct functional modules (radio access network elements, transport network elements, core network elements) that can be independently managed and optimized. This segmentation allows service-specific reliability mechanisms to be applied to each module while maintaining overall service integrity through the service chaining orchestration that coordinates across segments.
3Reliability
If network optimization and self-healing capabilities are implemented, then service integrity and reliability improve, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service capabilities through automated service chaining management and intelligent resource allocation. The system automatically detects service disruptions, isolates faults to specific network elements, and reconfigures service paths without human intervention. This self-healing mechanism reduces the perceived complexity for operators while maintaining high service integrity through continuous automated monitoring and recovery.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback loops that continuously monitor service performance metrics across the heterogeneous network infrastructure. This feedback mechanism enables real-time detection of integrity issues, triggers automated remediation actions, and provides operators with simplified views of network health. The feedback-driven approach manages complexity by automating responses to common issues while maintaining service integrity through continuous validation.
4Adaptability or versatility
If technology-independent service abstraction layers are implemented, then adaptability and ease of service deployment improve, but device complexity and orchestration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal service abstraction layer that provides technology-independent interfaces for deploying services across heterogeneous wireless and wireline networks. This universal layer defines standardized resource models and service chaining templates that can be instantiated on different underlying infrastructures, enhancing adaptability while managing orchestration complexity through standardized procedures and automated provisioning mechanisms.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting one or more conditions relating to service delivery for a requested service, wherein the service delivery involves use of at least a first access physical resource of access physical resources that are available in one or more access networks, sending a request to an AIC to perform access physical resource re-selection for the service delivery based on the detecting, after the sending, receiving, from the AIC, a selection of at least a second access physical resource of the access physical resources for the service delivery, and based on the receiving, causing the service delivery to be at least partially provided via the at least the second access physical resource rather than the at least the first access physical resource. Other embodiments are disclosed.