HARDWARE-TRUSTED NETWORK BEARERS IN NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE (NFVI) SERVERS THAT EXECUTE VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS (VNFS) UNDER MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION (MANO) CONTROL

摘要

In a wireless data network, network circuitry serves a wireless user device with hardware-trusted wireless data communications. The network circuitry comprises a physically-embedded hardware trust code and maintains hardware trust with a hardware trust server based on the physically-embedded hardware trust code. The network circuitry determines when a network server has hardware trust. The network circuitry determines when a wireless user device has hardware trust. The processing circuitry then exchanges user data between the wireless user device the network server when both the wireless user device and the network server have hardware trust. The processing circuitry does not exchange the user data between the wireless user device the network server when the wireless user device or the network server lack hardware trust.