436 results about "Network cost" patented technology

A system and method for instantiation of a virtual machine (VM) in a datacenter includes providing a network appliance in a location for listening to management information traffic. Indices are created for data center images in the network appliance. VM instantiation requests are intercepted in the network appliance. Locations from which blocks for the VM should be fetched based upon network cost are determined. VM image blocks are populated from the locations.

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has the advantages of high bandwidth and low latency and has attracted extensive attention in the study of next generation of mobile networks by providing service environment and computing power at the edge of mobile networks. The invention discloses a vehicle task unloading and user mobility prediction and edge cache fusion policy in a vehicle networking environment. An MEC-based unloading framework is built. Tasks can be unloaded to an MEC server for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications or can be unloaded to an adjacent vehicle for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Considering task backhaul failure caused by link disconnection caused by user mobility, the Kalman filter algorithm is used to predict link connection estimation, and a user can select a stable service node during task request and task collection. Cache decisions are made before the service node first returns a task to a request vehicle. Access latency, traffic load and networkcost can be significantly reduced through content cache.

Multiple paths in a communication network are provided between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The network arrangement may thus support either unicast transmission of data or multicast transmission. Measurements are made at nodes of the network to determine a partial network cost for data traversing the links in the multiple paths. An optimization procedure determines a distribution of the network traffic over the links between the at least one source node and the at least one destination node that incurs the minimum network cost.

Embodiments generally disclosed herein include methods and systems for calculating incremental network costs between logical city pairs in a network (each city pair being in communication across the network via one or more physical links). For example, the method includes a cost analyzer that, for each physical link in the network, determines a steady state capacity allocation associated with each city pair in the network and, in the same vein, determines a restoration capacity allocation associated with each city pair in the network. The cost analyzer is capable of calculating an incremental cost per unit of traffic for a given city pair based on: i) the steady state capacity allocation and a restoration capacity allocation associated with a given city pair, as compared to, ii) the aggregate steady state capacity allocations and restoration capacity allocations associated with each city pair in the network.

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for determining costs within an enterprise. The method comprises determining a set of cost-drivers based on characteristics of three-dimensional design data of a manufacturable component; and providing, to a plurality of different enterprise functions, database access to cost data from any combination of: the set of cost-drivers, and a set of costs determined based on the set of cost-drivers. In another embodiment, there is disclosed a computer system for determining costs within an enterprise. The system comprises a database comprising a set of stored cost-drivers determined based on characteristics of three-dimensional design data of a manufacturable component; and a network capable of providing, to a plurality of different enterprise functions, access to cost data from any combination of: the set of cost drivers, and a set of costs determined based on the set of cost-drivers.

In the Network Global Expectation Model, expectation values evaluated over the entire network are used as a multi-moment description of the required quantities of key network and network element (NE) resources and commensurate network costs. The Network Global Expectation Model naturally and analytically connects the global (network) and local (network element) views of the communication system, and thereby may be used as a tool to gain insight and very quickly provide approximate results for the preliminary evaluation and design of dynamic networks. Further, the Network Global Expectation Model may serve as a valuable guide in the areas of network element feature requirements, costs, sensitivity analyses, scaling performance, comparisons, product definition and application domains, and product and technology roadmapping. The network is arranged as a multiple tier network of nodes in order to apply the analysis methods of the Network Global Expectation Model. The analytical method is developed to include non-uniform demands on the network.

The present disclosure provides a data center network having one or more data center rows, where each row has one or more racks, and each rack has one or more network devices, such as servers, storage devices and switches. The rows and racks are interconnected by a fiber interconnect core that reduces the number of switching nodes in the data center network, and reduces the individual path latency, the overall data center network cost, power consumption, and power and cooling requirements.

An optical transceiver having an integrated optical time domain reflectometer monitoring unit and methods for using the same are disclosed. The disclosure relates to an optical transceiver comprising an optical device comprising a wavelength division multiplexing system (WDM), a data signal driver, a data signal limiting amplifier, and an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) data processing module. Furthermore, the optical transceiver is particularly advantageous in an optical line terminal (OLT) and/or a passive optical network (PON). The integrated OTDR data processing module can protect the optical transceiver, ensure successful monitoring data, simplify network wiring and decrease system and network costs by decreasing the number of OTDR modules and WDM units.

The present invention relates to a method and device for playing digital audio and video at variable speeds. The method first receives and stores the audio and video data transmitted to the local area, and then the device/network status and the audio and video data stored in the local area, or to the cache of the system, or to the system The cache and local audio and video data are processed and analyzed, and then the parameters of audio and video speed change are determined, so that the speed of audio and video data is changed, and then the audio and video data after speed change are processed synchronously, and finally the synchronously processed Audio and video data is output to playback devices or storage devices. The method can solve the problems of delay, intermittent, stuck and other problems encountered in the current network audio and video playback and the resulting out-of-sync problem of audio and video data without changing the current network conditions and increasing network costs.

The invention discloses a video service quality-based hybrid selective repeat method, which mainly solves the problems of reduced data transmission quantity, large transmission delay and poor video information continuity caused by unnecessary cost in the prior art. The method is implemented by the following steps of: first, calculating a video subjective quality objectified value by utilizing a video subjective quality objectifying model, and calculating a data transmission redundancy range which cannot cause network congestion by using a network broadband which feeds back from a receiving end to a transmitting end; then, according to the data transmission redundancy range, allocating proportions to forward error correction redundancy and selective repeat redundancy to optimize the video subjective quality objectified value; and finally, selecting a code pattern for coding according to the forward error correction redundancy, and determining the number of packets needing to be repeated according to the selective repeat redundancy. In the method, forward error correction control and selective repeat error control are taken into consideration at the same time, so that the time cost and the network cost are reduced; therefore, the method can be used in a video transmission system.

The invention discloses a non-networking access system based on a mobile terminal. The non-networking access system comprises a cloud-end server device, a non-networking access unit device and the mobile terminal, wherein the mobile terminal acquires access right information of a user and attribute information of an access unit; the non-networking access unit device sends a wireless broadcast message periodically; the mobile terminal detects the wireless broadcast message of the non-networking access unit and establishes wireless communication connection with the non-networking access unit; the mobile terminal sends a door-opening request to the non-networking access unit device by the established wireless communication connection; and the non-networking access unit device verifies the door-opening request of the mobile terminal and executes corresponding access right operation. The non-networking access system disclosed by the invention has the advantages that a user can use the access system only by carrying the mobile terminal without needing to swipe cards or adopting other means such as biological identity identification, and also does not need the networking to the access system, so that the use is faster; and compared with the networking system, a large amount of network cost is saved.

The invention relates to a storage caching method of an object-based distributed file system. The traditional object-based distributed file system has the problems that the network cost is instable and the whole I/O (Input/Output) performance is low in a heterogeneous storage environment. The architecture of the object-based distributed file system changes the traditional data access mode thereof, establishes caching by arranging a proxy server in a storage cluster, and adopts the caching replacement strategy in the invention to perform caching process of hot object files which are accessed very frequently. By utilizing the method, the file access speed of the distributed file system can be increased, the network transmission cost can be reduced, and the I/O performance of the whole system can be increased.

The present disclosure is related to selecting a network in a machine to machine (M2M) communication. A method of selecting a network in an M2M communication according to at least one embodiment includes: transmitting, by an M2M entity, an interface resource to an M2M core, wherein the interface resource includes a service class for an M2M application and information on supportable access networks; and performing, by the M2M entity, a connection to an access network, wherein the access network is selected by the M2M core, based on (i) information included in the interface resource and (ii) at least one of a network cost and location information.

An embodiment user equipment has a list of predictive data that a user may request, and programming to receive prefetched data based on the list of predictive data at a reduced cost, wherein the reduced cost is lower than a network cost of downloading the data, and to store the prefetched data within the UE for future consumption. An embodiment base station has a list of predictive data a UE may request, a high priority queue for data requested by the UE, and a low priority queue with predictive data corresponding to the list of predictive data. The base station further includes programing to send the requested data and to send the predictive data.

The present invention discloses a locking route method based on next hop routing and source routing, the method is aimed at solving three big technical problems including mobility of nodes, scalability of network and limited energy in the wireless multi-hop network. By using a local broadcast, the locking route method can help the source node, effectively and adaptively track network topology changes resulted from moves of the nodes, find a substitution route, and lock a destination node. In the local broadcast, the propagation of a route control message is limited to only an original route and surrounding neighbor nodes, so that network cost is greatly reduced, and scalability of the network is enhanced, wherein a routing update along the direction from the destination node to the source node can find the substitution route in time according to link quality parameters and node operating parameters, thereby maintaining persistence of the communication, and prolonging useful life of the network as well. The locking route algorithm of the present invention is suitable for all wireless multi-hop networks comprising mobile ad hoc networks, wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks.

Systems and methods for pipeline network optimization are presented. The pipeline network can be represented through a flow model, which can include a plurality of modeled wells operatively coupled to production facilities through one or more flowlines. Risk profiles of the one or more flowlines can be determined based on flowline attributes of each flowline and based on a simulation of the flow model that uses production variation in wells connected to the respective flowline as a parameter to generate flow profile of the flowline. Understanding the risk profile of each flowline through a risk metric can help assess the production potential of each flowline and wells associated thereto and optimize the network cost of operation or maintenance.

A multi-grained network includes edge modules that switch high-variance multi-rate data traffic, and independent core modules that switch paths having different granularities. The core may include core modules that switch fixed-size data blocks, core modules that switch channels or bands of channels, core modules that switch entire links, and core modules that cross-connect channels or links. To simplify the control functions, the core modules operate independently from each other. Direct link, band or channel connections may be established for selected ingress-egress edge module pairs, if traffic volumes warrant. The use of graded granularity in the core simplifies the control function and reduces network cost.