Managing signal traffic in a 5g or other next generation wireless network

Abstract

The technologies described herein are generally directed toward managing signal traffic in a wireless network. Example operations can include receiving, for a group of cells, a control channel utilization value for a control channel and a data channel utilization value for a data channel. The operations can further include generating, based on the control channel utilization value and a threshold, for a first cell of the group of cells, a channel allocation that can increase the balance of use of control channel resources and data channel resources for the first cell, and configuring the first cell of the group of cells to allocate control channel resources and data channel resources of the first cell based on the channel allocation.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . Network equipment, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 based on a combination, for a group of base station equipment, of a control channel utilization value for a control channel and a data channel utilization value for a data channel, 
 selecting, for first base station equipment of the group of base station equipment, a carrier aggregation parameter to change a balance of use of control channel resources of the control channel and data channel resources of the data channel for the first base station equipment; and 
 based on the carrier aggregation parameter, configuring utilization of a carrier aggregation protocol by the first base station equipment. 
   
     
     
         2 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter is selected to change the balance of use of the control channel resources and the data channel resources to reduce a number of traffic offload events for the first base station equipment. 
     
     
         3 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein the control channel comprises a physical downlink control channel. 
     
     
         4 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein the data channel comprises a physical downlink shared channel allocated to a user equipment on an opportunistic basis. 
     
     
         5 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter is selected to change the use of the control channel resources and the data channel resources to incorporate channel resources of second base station equipment, and wherein the carrier aggregation parameter is selected to alter use of combined control channel resources and combined data channel resources for the first base station equipment and the second base station equipment. 
     
     
         6 . The network equipment of  claim 5 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter specifies that ones of the combined data channel resources be respectively allocated to the first base station equipment and the second base station equipment, resulting in an offload of data channel traffic of a user equipment from the first base station equipment to the second base station equipment. 
     
     
         7 . The network equipment of  claim 5 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter specifies that the combined control channel resources be allocated to one of the first base station equipment and the second base station equipment, resulting in an offload of control channel traffic of a user equipment from the first base station equipment to the second base station equipment. 
     
     
         8 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein the control channel utilization value comprises an aggregated control channel load for the first base station equipment. 
     
     
         9 . The network equipment of  claim 1 , wherein configuring the first base station equipment based on the carrier aggregation parameter comprises configuring the first base station equipment until combined control channel resources and combined data channel resources for the first base station equipment and third base station equipment are determined to be in an equilibrium. 
     
     
         10 . The network equipment of  claim 9 , wherein the equilibrium is defined based on estimated traffic offload events for the first base station equipment and the third base station equipment. 
     
     
         11 . A method, comprising:
 facilitating, by a first device comprising a processor, sending, to network node equipment, a control channel utilization value for a control channel of the first device and a data channel utilization value for a data channel of the first device;   facilitating, by the first device, receiving a carrier aggregation parameter to configure utilization of a carrier aggregation protocol by the first device based on the control channel utilization value and the data channel utilization value; and   configuring, by the first device, use of the carrier aggregation protocol for operation of the first device.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter was selected by the network node equipment to alter a balance of use of control channel resources and data channel resources, to decrease a number of handover events by a user equipment for the first device. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter was selected by the network node equipment to change the balance of use of the control channel resources and the data channel resources to combine resources of the first device and a second device, and wherein the carrier aggregation parameter is selected to alter use of combined control channel resources and combined data channel resources for the first device and the second device. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the carrier aggregation parameter was selected by the network node equipment to specify that respective ones of the combined data channel resources of the first device and the second device be allocated to the first device and the second device, and wherein the method further comprises, based on the carrier aggregation parameter, offloading, by the first device, data channel traffic of a fourth user equipment from the first device to the second device. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the control channel comprises a downlink control information channel. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the data channel comprises a physical downlink shared channel allocated to a user equipment on an opportunistic basis. 
     
     
         17 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 identifying a carrier aggregation setting to configure utilization of carrier aggregation by a first base station based on a combination of a data channel utilization value for a data channel of the first base station and a control channel utilization value for a control channel of the first base station; and   based on the carrier aggregation setting, configuring the utilization of carrier aggregation by the first base station.   
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the carrier aggregation setting was selected for the first base station to include a second base station in the utilization of carrier aggregation by the first base station, and wherein the utilization of carrier aggregation balances first use of combined control channel resources and second use of combined data channel resources for the first base station and the second base station, respectively. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the carrier aggregation setting was selected for the first base station to reduce a number of traffic offload events for the first base station. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein configuring the first base station based on the carrier aggregation setting comprises configuring the first base station until combined channel resources for the first base station and base stations other than the first base station are determined to be in an equilibrium.