Patent ID: 11929938
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A method of operating a network function virtual operation, NFVO, node, in a communication network to respond to congestion in a resource of a network slice of the communication network, the method comprising:
determining that the resource of the network slice is congested;
responsive to determining that the resource of the network slice is congested, transmitting a first message to a network data analytics function, NWDAF, node of the communication network, the first message indicating a request for approval to scale the resource of the network slice; and
receiving a second message from the NWDAF node, the second message indicating whether to scale the resource of the network slice in response to the first message.