Patent ID: 11950138
Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 1:
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the weighting selection of a UPF of the plurality of UPFs on which to anchor the PDU session such as to favor selection of a UPF that has a current cellular telecommunication network serving area geographically covering the location of the new UE includes:
adding a cost represented by “Ci” to the Avg_load_UPFi such that if UPFi has a current cellular telecommunication network serving area geographically covering the location of the new UE, then “Ci” is “0”, otherwise, “Ci” is a positive number;
creating weights “Wi”s (wherein i =1, . . . N) as follows: wi=Avg_load_UPFi+Ci; and
selecting a UPF of the plurality of UPFs on which to anchor the PDU session with a lowest weight “Wi”.