API to Route Traffic to a Specific Slice on the Network

[awajs]

5G Networks enable Network Slices which have different service levels. For a complex application there may be different types of traffic with different network performance requirements. For example there may be traffic which is used to manage the configuration of a camera and traffic that corresponds to the actual video that is captured by the camera. Management traffic may require a higher quality of service than the traffic that is associated with the video data for example. For example a higher delay may be acceptable for the video data vs low latency for configuration messages. The following Use Case illustrates how this may be used.

Use Case: Selectively Routing Traffic to a Network Slice An application has video traffic and configuration traffic. The application routes its Configuration Traffic over a slice with higher quality of service and routes the video traffic over a slice with a lower quality of service.

The application is able to query which service levels are available to the application.

The application is provided with a list and also the credentials that will enable the application to send on a specific slice.

The application is able to route its traffic according to its requirements for the type of traffic.

[jordonezlucena]

Closed, as agreed in the 9th June call