ACCESS CONTROL FOR NETWORK SLICES OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: THIELE, Lars, WIRTH, Thomas, HELLGE, Cornelius, SCHIERL, Thomas, SEIDEL, Eiko
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.11.2021
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A base station for a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network has a plurality of logical radio access networks. The base station communicates with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks. The base station selectively controls the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks. During a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks, e.g., eMBB, URLLC, eMTC. During a second operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to perform one or more of the following: adaptively limit access of users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, adaptively control the distribution of the physical resources among the plurality of logical radio access networks, adaptively control the physical resources to be used dependent on one or more service characteristics of a service using the logical radio access network, adaptively reduce a number of enabled logical radio access networks.