83 results about "Management plane" patented technology

A cloud-based architecture includes a cloud-based network management system (NMS) that provides the management plane and one or more cloud-based NAC systems that provide NAC services, including end-point device authentication. The cloud-based NAC system may have multiple groups of authentication server instances. Each group may have multiple authentication server instances to allow the authentication service provided by the group to serve more client devices than a single authentication server instance alone. Different Groups can be configured differently to serve different tenant sets.

A method for wireless communication performed by a distributed unit (DU) includes receiving, from a radio unit (RU), a management-plane message including information about a control-plane message supported by the RU, generating, based on the management-plane message, a first control-plane message including a field indicating a first user equipment identifier (UE ID) and a first section extension field, and transmitting, to the RU through a fronthaul interface, the first control-plane message during a time period longer than a slot. The first section extension field includes a parameter indicating a number of UE IDs of a user associated with the first UE ID.

The invention discloses an equipment intelligent operation and maintenance prediction system and method based on deep learning, particularly relates to the field of data communication networks, and is used for solving the problem of inaccurate positioning caused by separation of a prediction conclusion and a detection receipt. The method comprises the following steps: receiving operation and maintenance detection receipts from a management plane, extracting a path identifier and a time identifier to generate a measurement path set, establishing a receipt sequence index, reading a prediction abnormal conclusion, and completing registration calculation of a fragment through significance probability and a time mark coincidence significance probability in the measurement path set; performing Fisher merge check to obtain a merge saliency result, cutting to generate a candidate link segment set, expanding port configuration and forwarding relation check consistency in a topology view, outputting a positioning result, retrieving an operation and maintenance knowledge base based on the positioning result to generate an operation list, and completing dual consistency check to form an executable version; and recovering a new operation and maintenance detection receipt verification positioning result adjustment and maintenance rule item in the processing window, issuing a rule version index, and writing back the metadata.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, communicating management plane (M-plane) data at a first port of a radio unit (RU), the RU being one RU of a set of radio units (RUs) at a cell site of a network operator, the M-plane data related to management and control of the RU, wherein the communicating M-plane data comprises communicating the M-plane data with a distributed unit (DU) over an M-plane segment, and initiating communication of the M-plane data at a second port of the RU, the second port configured for data communication over an alternate M-plane segment to a second RU of the set of RUs for forwarding the M-plane data to the DU over a second M-plane segment between the second RU and the DU, wherein the initiating communication is in response to an interruption in the communicating M-plane data.Other embodiments are disclosed.

Systems, methods and products for blockchain distributed networks, including software defined networks, are provided, that include a management plane blockchain for distributing public keys and other management functions, a control plane blockchain for configuring how to communicate data, and a data plane blockchain to communicate data, including private keys, that each interact with artificial intelligence and use quantum generated random numbers for encrypted keys and other processes, and which can be controlled by human users, artificial intelligence users, or a combination of both users.

Apparatus and methods for radio unit (RU) joint phase-time array (JPTA) capability for fronthaul communications. A method performed by a radio unit (RU) includes transmitting, to a distributed unit (DU) via a management-plane (M-plane) of a fronthaul interface, information indicating support for joint phase-time array (JPTA) beamforming, transmitting, to the DU, beamforming capability information associated with a frontend architecture of a transceiver of the RU, and receiving, from the DU, a JPTA configuration based on the beamforming capability information. The method further includes identifying a JPTA beam to apply based on the JPTA configuration and transmitting, to one or more user equipment (UEs), the JPTA beam.

This application discloses a natural language-driven edge-cloud collaborative intelligent operation and maintenance system and its control method, belonging to the field of intelligent operation and maintenance technology. The system includes a management plane, a control plane, an edge agent, an intelligent operation and maintenance center, a task center, and a skill center. The intelligent operation and maintenance center uses a directed graph state machine engine to convert natural language operation and maintenance goals into executable steps. The task center atomically distributes tasks to the edge agent and streams execution fragments. The skill center implements version management and AI-assisted generation of operation and maintenance skills. This invention achieves a fully automated closed loop from understanding operation and maintenance intentions to edge execution and knowledge accumulation, significantly shortening fault repair time, improving operation and maintenance security and knowledge reuse capabilities, and has outstanding substantive features and significant progress.

In a multi-tenant computing system, a set of subscriptions are generated, to which resources are assigned. Each subscription has a management application that is used to manage access to resources in the subscription. Credentials that are used by the management application are stored in a key vault within the subscription.

A cellular security system that uses multiple policies to protect a cellular network against various threats in a cloud-based environment. The cellular security system includes a tenant with multiple cellular devices, multiple tunnels that receive and route traffic, monitor traffic, capture real-time traffic attributes, and detect anomalies. The cellular security system further includes an anomaly detection model, an alert generator, and an anomaly reporter. The anomaly detection model retrieves baseline profiles from a threat database, loads policies related to a threat, and compares real-time traffic features with baseline profiles. The anomaly detection model further applies an anomaly detection algorithm to a traffic instance, assigns an anomaly score, and raises a flag for anomaly detection where the anomaly score is greater than a threshold. The alert generator sends an alert to the tenant in the cloud-based environment, and the anomaly reporter notifies a management plane for further remediation of the anomaly.

A virtualized network function (VNF) of a network function virtualization (NFV) link level architecture includes a management plane function (MPF) to map a logical interface as a virtual interface in a control plane function (CPF) of the VNF. The MPF maps a logical resource of the NFV virtualization link level architecture as a shadow resource on one or more data plane functions (DPFs) of the VNF, wherein a virtual link is formed by the logical interface, the shadow resource, and the virtual interface. One of the DPFs receives a packet over the virtual link from a switch and classifies a type of the packet. In response to the packet type being a data packet, the DPF aggregates the packet with other data packets to form aggregated data packets and sends the aggregated data packets to the switch.

The present disclosure relates to implementing dynamic antenna array reconfiguration in an O-RAN, wherein a radio unit (O-RU) is configured to: send configuration capability information to a distributed unit (O-DU) via management plane (M-Plane) messaging; receive antenna array configurations supported by the O-RU from the O-DU via control plane (C-Plane) messaging based on the O-RU's configuration capability information and a request to reconfigure the antenna array from a higher layer network function; and reconfigure the antenna array configuration of the O-RU based on the antenna array configuration supported for the O-RU.

This application provides an intelligent routing function optimization method and system based on an intelligent vehicle power domain control platform, belonging to the field of intelligent vehicle electronic control technology. It addresses the problems of resource contention, excessive processor load, insufficient real-time performance, and poor scalability in in-vehicle network routing functions in related technologies. This method employs an architecture that separates the management plane and data plane. It pre-generates routing numbers encoding source, path, and destination information for communication relationships, and quickly extracts information based on these numbers through bit operations to execute routing decisions. Furthermore, it combines doubly linked list cache management, multi-core affinity scheduling, and multi-level resource provisioning strategies to achieve efficient cache resource management, significant optimization of processor load, and an overall improvement in system real-time performance and reliability.

Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of computer network communications, and provide a programmable logic device system of a baseboard, and an application device thereof. The programmable logic device system of the baseboard comprises: a low pin count bus parsing module is configured to parse a low pin count bus command issued by a central processing unit; a register space allocation module is configured to allocate data of the low pin count bus command to a preset register address space; a serial port hub module is configured to interact with the central processing unit and a baseboard management controller, and provide the preset register address space; a serial port parsing module is configured to parse serial port data between a baseboard serial port module and the central processing unit or between the baseboard serial port module and the baseboard management controller; a serial port switching module is configured to connect the baseboard serial port module to the central processing unit on the basis of a serial port complete byte switching policy, or connect the baseboard serial port module to the baseboard management controller on the basis of said policy. The embodiments of the present application solve the problems of incomplete bytes, messy codes and system suspension caused by serial port switching of different management planes.

The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and electronic device for cloud platform version upgrade, relating to the technical field of cloud platforms. The specific steps are as follows: scheduling a first container group to be updated to a public cloud platform through a virtual node and generating a scheduling result; creating a first node component and a first container group instance on the public cloud platform according to the version information of the management plane components in the core cloud platform and the target version information of the first container group to be updated; scheduling a second container group to be updated managed by the node components in the core cloud platform to the public cloud platform, and upgrading the control plane components and node components in the core cloud platform according to the target version information. The present disclosure realizes the upgrade of node components and container components in the public cloud platform by the core cloud platform through virtual nodes, realizes the decoupling between the core cloud platform and the public cloud platform, avoids the version compatibility dependencies between the control plane components and the node components, and improves the efficiency of cloud platform version upgrade.

Systems and methods include a cloud-hosted management plane where an authenticated user can initiate a request to establish a remote session to an edge device. A request may be transmitted to create a secure tunnel between the edge device and the cloud-based management plane. The edge device may receive and use a set of credentials to trigger a web-socket tunnel from the edge device to the cloud-hosted management plane. This connection may be used for management of an edge device(s), troubleshooting edge inferencing, access / use of edge applications, and various other applications.

A method, apparatus, and system for directly controlling network energy savings (NES) using service management and orchestration (SMO) and distributed units of an O1 interface may be provided, and may include transmitting, by an open radio access network (O-RAN) distributed unit (O-DU), network energy savings (NES) information to the service management and orchestration (SMO), the network energy saving information comprises at least one of network traffic, load performance measurement, and key performance indicator (KPI); receiving, by the O-DU, a message indicating when to apply the TRx control configuration to an O-RAN radio unit (O-RU); setting, by the O-DU, a transceiver (TRx) control configuration at the O-RU over a forward pass (FH) interface on a management plane (M-plane) or a control plane (C-plane) based at least in part on the received message; and transmitting, by the O-DU to the SMO, a notification indicating whether the activation of the TRx control configuration is successful.

The invention discloses an event occurrence moment determination method, device and equipment and a medium, and relates to the technical field of vehicle communication, and the method comprises the steps: at an initialization stage of a control system, obtaining at least one to-be-determined event and a first occurrence moment of each to-be-determined event; acquiring a generation moment of a management plane clock of the control system; wherein the generation moment comprises a first generation moment and a second generation moment which are in time synchronization; the first generation moment is a generation moment obtained based on data plane clock measurement, and the second generation moment is a generation moment obtained based on management plane clock measurement; and for each to-be-determined event, according to the first generation moment, the second generation moment and the first occurrence moment, determining the world time of the occurrence moment of the to-be-determined event. According to the method and the device, the occurrence time of the event based on the management plane clock in the system initialization process can be determined, and a developer can conveniently record the event to be determined in the initialization stage.

The invention relates to a system for exchanging process data related to industrial manufacturing or processing, in particular, to chemical manufacturing or processing is proposed. The system comprises at least one process data providing unit, a process data distribution unit, a local process data interface and an integration layer management plane. The at least one process data providing unit is configured for providing process data related to industrial manufacturing or processing, in particular, to chemical manufacturing or processing. The process data distribution unit is connected to a communication system of interconnected computer networks and to a corporate industrial manufacturing network and configured for providing process data via the communication system of interconnected computer networks and / or via the corporate industrial manufacturing network. The local process data interface is connected to the process data distribution unit via the corporate industrial manufacturing network and to a local industrial production network and configured for enabling an exchange of provided process data between the process data distribution unit and the local industrial production network via the corporate industrial manufacturing network. The system's integration layer management plane is configured for triggering the process data distribution unit and the local process data interface to exchange provided process data. The system enables an exchange of process data related to industrial manufacturing or processing in a network landscape in production industry and in particular in chemical industry.

The invention discloses a high-reliability clock network construction method based on distributed dynamic management, and the method comprises the steps: 1, the construction of a clock generation plane and a control management plane: dividing a clock network in a chip into the clock generation plane and the control management plane, and enabling the division of the clock generation plane to correspond to the division of function modules in the chip, the clock generation modules are distributed in the functional modules at all levels; the control management plane generates a management clock enable signal, the enable signal controls clocks distributed in all modules in the chip, and dynamic distributed clock management is achieved by intensively planning the enable signal. The system has the characteristics of dynamic management of modules, high expansibility, high reliability and low power consumption.

The technology described herein is directed towards runtime dynamic downlink power configuration between a distributed unit and radio unit. In one O-RAN-compliant implementation, control-plane messages are used to update the downlink power without any service interruption, based on initialization information provided by management-plane messages to the distributed unit, including a radio unit's indication of support for the power change and the time (gap) needed by the radio unit to implement a power change. Based on this data, the distributed unit and radio unit (which are synchronized) change the downlink power at the same specific time (same symbol) such that the power configuration can be done during runtime without any service interruption. This is advantageous with power changes needed for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) systems and / or for energy saving purposes, for example.

The invention relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a time synchronization method, a distributed network system, electronic equipment, a medium and a product. In the method, each device in the distributed network system respectively synchronizes data plane time and management plane time through a hardware clock and a software clock. Wherein the data plane time of the master device is the hardware time of the hardware clock, and the management plane time of the master device is the UTC time of the software clock. Therefore, the management plane time synchronization of each device in the distributed network system can be realized through a software clock, an additional hardware clock is not needed, and the hardware deployment cost can be reduced.

The invention relates to the technical field of computer networks, in particular to a two-layer network bridge equipment management system and method based on an ICMP protocol. According to the technical scheme, the two-layer network bridge equipment management system based on the ICMP protocol comprises an ICMP message interception and preprocessing module, an instruction analysis and safety control module, a lightweight instruction execution and state acquisition module and a response packaging and priority sending module; according to the invention, an independent management plane which is logically decoupled with a two-layer forwarding plane and runs in parallel with the two-layer forwarding plane is constructed, and a bypass interception mechanism is implanted into an IP layer of a network protocol stack, so that all inflowing IP data packets are monitored and screened in real time before being submitted to an upper-layer protocol stack or a forwarding engine; the response message does not pass through the conventional bridging query and forwarding logic, and the whole data path from the receiving of the management request to the final response is ensured, so that the operation and maintenance personnel can still carry out remote command and information transmission under the condition that the bridging function is completely paralyzed.

The invention discloses a distributed processing system based on an open architecture, and a backboard is divided into a basic plane which is used for providing a general basic circuit; the management plane is used for supervising and managing various standard modules inserted into the slots of the backboard through a management bus; the control plane is used for realizing control instruction or low-bandwidth data transmission between the standard modules and between the internal system and the external system through a control bus; the data plane is used for realizing service information or high-bandwidth data transmission between the modules and between the internal system and the external system through a data bus; the expansion plane is used for realizing an additional data communication path between the standard modules through an interconnection bus; and the interface plane realizes interconnection between the standard modules and between the standard modules and external interfaces through discrete lines, low-speed buses and high-speed buses. According to the invention, through plane division of the backboard, various kinds of signals are orderly crosslinked on the backboard, so that the distributed processing system has good expandability and maintainability.

A method (700) is disclosed. The method includes receiving (702), by a radio unit (RU) from a RU controller, a deep sleep command to disable a plurality of functions associated with the RU. The deep sleep command includes a predefined duration for a deep sleep timer. Further, the method includes disabling (704), by the RU, control plane (C-plane) functions, user plane (U-plane) functions, and synchronization plane (S-plane) functions associated with the RU and starting the deep sleep timer. Further, the method includes receiving (706), by the RU from the RU controller, a close session command to suspend an established / active session between the RU and the RU controller. Further, in response to the received close session command, the method includes disabling (708), by the RU, management plane (M-plane) associated with the RU and entering a deep sleep mode.

According to one embodiment, a radio unit (RU) includes a transceiver, a memory to store instructions, and a processor. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the RU to establish a first session and a second session with a client server, the client server including at least one of a distributed unit (DU) or a service management and orchestration (SMO). The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the RU to send or receive, through the first session, at least one first message for operations of supervision to or from the client server. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the RU to send or receive, through the second session, at least one second message to or from the client server while the at least one first message is being sent or received through the first session, the at least one second message being for operations of a management plane between the DU and the RU.

The application provides a PON system supporting multi-level slices, an OLT device and an ONU device, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The system comprises an OLT device, an optical distribution network and an ONU device. The OLT device is decomposed into a vOLT management plane and a vOLT user plane through a virtual OLT technology. The OLT device is provided with a first-level network slice management module, and the ONU device is provided with a second-level network slice management module. The second-level network slice management module is used for dividing and managing the second-level network slice of the connected user terminal device. The network slice hierarchical capability is used for dividing the priority and network performance of each service in a large park network, solving the problems of single network slice division, insufficient granularity, inability to completely solve the problems of the concentration of various service types and different requirements, and realizing the intelligentization of the park network and reducing the deployment cost.

The present disclosure relates to implementing dynamic antenna array reconfiguration within an O-RAN in which a radio unit (O-RU), the O-RU is configured to transmit configuration capability information to a distributed unit (O-DU) via management plane (M plane) messaging; receiving an antenna array configuration supported by the O-RU from the O-DU via a control plane (C-plane) messaging, wherein the supported antenna array configuration is based on configuration capability information of the O-RU and a request from the higher layer network function to reconfigure the antenna array; and reconfiguring the antenna array configuration of the O-RU based on the antenna array configuration supported by the O-RU.

The invention provides a domestic VPX general-purpose computing blade, which belongs to the field of computing blades, is based on an autonomous controllable computing platform 'Feiteng-Kylin system', takes a domestic FT-2000 + / 64 processor as a core design, and converts, communicates, processes and transmits data through an internal processor. According to the invention, configuration of a USB, a VGA, a management plane interface, a data plane interface, an expansion plane interface and the like meeting external requirements is formed, a domestic Kylin operating system is adapted, the performance bottleneck of a domestic platform is avoided, the computing power of the domestic platform is improved, and the domestic VPX general computing blade with high reliability, high bandwidth and high-performance computing under an autonomous platform is realized.

A radio unit (RU) apparatus can include a memory to store instructions, a transceiver, and at least one processor. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s) individually or collectively, can cause the apparatus to transmit, to a DU, a management plane message including configuration information for requesting a spectrum for a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS). The configuration information can include a pattern of movement of the RU on a predetermined path and path information for each of areas in the predetermined path. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s) individually or collectively, can cause the apparatus to communicate, in a first area, with terminals in a first cell operating in a first spectrum assigned based on the configuration information and communicate, in a second area changed from the first area according to movement of the RU, with terminals in a second cell operating in a second spectrum assigned based on the configuration information.