US Patent Issued to Ciena on Feb. 17 for "Assigning user plane functions (UPFs) within a 5G core network" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,002, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Assigning user plane functions (UPFs) within a 5G core network" was invented by Petar Djukic (Ottawa), Yeshu Wu (Ottawa) and Todd Morris (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for placement of User Plane Functions (UPFs) on one or more nodes and assigning Distributed Units (DUs) to the UPF-hosting nodes of a 5G network slice. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of obtaining a network topology map portraying a network that includes at least a plurality of components of a Radio Access Network (RAN)...