Abstract: A technique for anticipating impacts on service levels of one or more services provided to a User Equipment, UE, while the UE moves along a planned route is disclosed, wherein each of the one or more services is provided to the UE using a network slice in a network slicing based mobile communication system. A method implementation of the technique is performed by an anticipation component and comprises receiving (S202) a service level anticipation request for the planned route of the UE, triggering (S204) determining an expected impact on the service levels of the one or more services at one or more locations of the planned route, and triggering (S206) sending a response to the service level anticipation request including information on the expected impact on the service levels.

Abstract: A method performed by a first network node for a telecommunications network is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a network service. The method further includes dynamically mapping the request for the network service to an internal network slice instance based on unsupervised learning of historical data.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer programs are disclosed. The method of allocating network resources to a plurality of media flows in a communications network, the method comprising the steps of: determining a media content characteristic for the plurality of media flows; partitioning the plurality of media flows into one or more media flow groups based on the media content characteristic; initiating allocation of a separate network resource pool to the one or more media flow groups to be used by media flows belonging to respective media flow group.

Abstract: A method and device manager for controlling program components in a network device, wherein the network device is used for handling data traffic in a communication network. First, the device manager identifies, out of a set of predefined policies, a policy comprising rules which determine how the network device should operate when handling data traffic. Then, program components required to fulfil the identified policy are identified and existing program components present in the network device are determined. The device manager further pushes any of the required program components being absent in said existing program components, to the network device. Thereby, any network device(s) can be configured and/or upgraded automatically according to appropriate predefined policies, requiring a minimum of manual work. The predefined policies can also easily be modified or extended to deploy new and/or upgraded functions.

Abstract: A technique for anticipating impacts on service levels of one or more services provided to a User Equipment, UE, while re) the UE moves along a planned route is disclosed, wherein each of the one or more services is provided to the UE using a network slice in a network slicing based mobile communication system. A method implementation of the technique is performed by an anticipation component and comprises receiving (S202) a service level anticipation request for the planned route of the UE, triggering (S204) determining an expected impact on the service levels of the one or more services at one or more locations of the planned route, and triggering (S206) sending a response to the service level anticipation request including information on the expected impact on the service levels.

Abstract: A technique for simplifying management of a service on a network infrastructure in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by an aggregation component and comprises generating (S502), for a service to be managed on the network infrastructure and based on a representation of resources available in the network infrastructure, an aggregated representation of the resources available in the network infrastructure, wherein aggregated resources in the aggregated representation are computed to comply with one or more capacity-related requirements of the service to be managed, and providing (S504) the aggregated representation to an orchestration component for management of the service.

Abstract: A method and device manager for controlling program components in a network device, wherein the network device is used for handling data traffic in a communication network. First, the device manager identifies, out of a set of predefined policies, a policy comprising rules which determine how the network device should operate when handling data traffic. Then, program components required to fulfil the identified policy are identified and existing program components present in the network device are determined. The device manager further pushes any of the required program components being absent in said existing program components, to the network device. Thereby, any network device(s) can be configured and/or upgraded automatically according to appropriate predefined policies, requiring a minimum of manual work. The predefined policies can also easily be modified or extended to deploy new and/or upgraded functions.