NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING CONSIDERING THE CONTROL PLANE BOTTLENECK

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information indicative of data plane utilization, wherein the data plane is associated with a wireless communications network; obtaining second information indicative of control plane utilization, wherein the control plane is associated with the wireless communications network; applying the first information and the second information to one or more machine learning algorithms; and generating via the one or more machine learning algorithms one or more outputs, wherein the one or more outputs indicates whether one or more network resources should be added to improve the data plane utilization. Other embodiments are disclosed.