SCALABLE WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE

摘要

Functionality relating to control and data plane functions in a telecommunications network may be separated. In one implementation, a telecommunications network may include a radio access network to provide a radio interface to mobile devices that connect to the telecommunications network. A first set of devices may implement functionality corresponding to control plane operations by the telecommunications network, the control plane operations including operations relating to establishing communication sessions in the telecommunications network. A second set of devices may implement functionality corresponding to data plane operations by the telecommunications network, the data plane operations including operations relating to transmitting user data over the established communication sessions.

主权项

1. A telecommunications network comprising:
a radio access network to provide a radio interface to mobile devices that connect to the telecommunications network; a control plane cluster including one or more computing devices to implement functionality relating to processing of control plane traffic in the telecommunications network, the functionality relating to the processing of the control plane traffic including functionality associated with control plane processing of a packet data network gateway (PGW); and a data plane cluster including one or more network elements relating to processing of data plane traffic in the telecommunications network, at least one of the one or more network elements including functionality associated with data plane processing of the PGW, wherein the one or more computing devices of the control plane cluster and the one or more network elements of the data plane cluster are different from one another.