80 results about "Network Functions Virtualization" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of Internet of Things communication transmission, and discloses an Internet of Things data intelligent transmission method and system, and the method comprises the steps: abstracting the performance of a multi-source heterogeneous link through a software defined network controller, dynamically generating a slice template, carrying out the traffic marking and priority scheduling, constructing a multi-path target constraint optimization model, and carrying out the optimization of the multi-path target constraint optimization model. And in combination with a network function virtualization mechanism, multi-level intelligent transmission is implemented at edge nodes, and a final transmission control instruction is generated. In the prior art, in a heterogeneous multi-network environment, low-delay, high-reliability and high-bandwidth transmission cannot be guaranteed at the same time, and especially in an industrial automation scene, technical problems that a control instruction is easy to delay and a monitoring data bandwidth is limited exist. According to the invention, the overall transmission reliability and bandwidth utilization efficiency are improved through the dynamic priority traffic scheduling based on network slices, the multipath reliability product model and the dynamic batch processing and progressive compression technology based on real-time link feedback.

Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for deploying User Plane Function (UPF) and edge computing virtualized network functions (VNF). For example, some embodiments are directed to a network management system. The network management system includes processor circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to transmit a request to an edge computing management system to instantiate an edge computing virtualized network function (VNF). The request can include an identifier of a Network Service (NS) where a User Plane Function (UPF) VNF supporting the edge computing VNF is located. The processor circuitry can be further configured to receive, from the edge computing management system, a response indicating that the edge computing VNF is instantiated.

Provided are a computing resource management method, system and device, the method comprising: receiving an instantiation request of a virtualized network function (VNF) from a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), the instantiation request of the VNF comprising an operation mode of the VNF; determining addressing information of a heterogeneous computing resource pool corresponding to the operation mode of the VNF and computing resource demand information of the VNF; sending a computing resource allocation request to an infrastructure manager IM, the computing resource allocation request comprising addressing information of the heterogeneous computing resource pool and computing resource demand information of the VNF, the computing resource allocation request is used for requesting to allocate resources for the VNF in the heterogeneous computing resource pool according to the addressing information of the heterogeneous computing resource pool and the computing resource demand information of the VNF. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, the computing resource requirement of a novel telecommunication application with high computing task concurrency can be met.

The invention provides a policy group management method, which is characterized in that the method is applied to a network function virtualization management orchestration NFV-MANO architecture, the method is executed by a first functional entity, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving a first request message, the first request message being used for requesting execution of a policy group management operation for a first policy group, the first request message comprises identification information of a second policy group; executing the policy group management operation on the first policy group according to the identification information of the second policy group; wherein the second strategy group is a member strategy group of the first strategy group, and the second strategy group comprises one or more member strategies. Based on the technical scheme, when the policy group management operation is carried out on the policy group, the policy group management operation can be carried out by taking the member policy group as a unit. Thus, strategies needing to be integrally and consistently executed can be flexibly arranged in an NFV-MANO complex automatic operation and maintenance scene, and the cost of strategy group updating operation is reduced.

The invention provides a virtual network function deployment method in a 6G network based on deep reinforcement learning. The method comprises the following steps: modeling a 6G network function virtualization environment system; a deployment problem of a virtual network function VNF in a 6G network function virtualization environment system is modeled as a Markov decision process MDP, and a state space S, an action space A, a state transition P, a reward function R and a discount factor gamma of the MDP process are defined. And training an intelligent agent based on an offline training algorithm of the DQN, and intelligently solving the MDP process through a deep reinforcement learning algorithm to obtain an optimal VNF deployment position, a flow routing path and an optimal VNF processing and data flow transmission opportunity. According to the invention, the deployment position and resource allocation of the VNF can be dynamically adjusted and controlled according to the network state and the service demand, so that the quality and efficiency of network service are improved. The model can provide quantitative decision support for network service orchestration, and maximizes the resource utilization rate and the network performance while ensuring that the service delay requirement is met.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computing resource management method, a system, and a device. The method comprises: receiving an instantiation request of a virtualized network function (VNF) from a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), wherein the instantiation request of the VNF comprises an operating mode of the VNF; determining addressing information of a heterogeneous computing resource pool and computing resource requirement information of the VNF which correspond to the operating mode of the VNF; and sending a computing resource allocation request to an infrastructure manager (IM), wherein the computing resource allocation request comprises the addressing information of the heterogeneous computing resource pool and the computing resource requirement information of the VNF, and the computing resource allocation request is used for requesting to allocate resources to the VNF from the heterogeneous computing resource pool on the basis of the addressing information of the heterogeneous computing resource pool and the computing resource requirement information of the VNF. The embodiments of the present application can meet the computing resource requirements of new telecommunication applications having high computing task concurrency.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an upgrade method, device, and system. The upgrade method includes: determining N physical machines that need to be upgraded, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; for each physical machine, migrating the services of network elements of virtual machines on the physical machine; evacuating the virtual machines on the physical machine to other physical machines; upgrading the physical machine; and notifying the Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) to incorporate the upgraded physical machine into management and application. Embodiments of the present invention achieve the upgrade of physical machines by means of service migration and virtual machine evacuation without affecting the normal operation of network functions running on the cloud platform and the services of network functions.

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for deploying and configuring telecommunication middleware using a no-code integration and automation platform that implements middleware patterns as a set of event-driven Functions-as-a-Service. The platform offers low-latency, high-performance middleware capabilities co-located with applications, provides for a consistent developer experience, facilitates interoperability across nodes, and enables centralized and automated lifecycle management. Additional technical benefits over legacy systems in this resource-efficient, edge-optimized, green-tech platform include: improved performance, composable building blocks, reduced costs, cloud-native deployment, cloud network functions virtualization, rationalized tooling, and unified management. The breadth, depth, and inherent complexity of various use cases showcases the richness of the disclosed abstraction and automation.

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for implementing one or more corrective actions during a resource threshold error event In one example, the method comprises receiving, by a transceiver unit [304] at a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Platform Decision Analytics (NPDA) module [302], a resource threshold error event for a Network Function (NF). The method further comprises retrieving, by a retrieval unit [306] at the NPDA module [302], a set of data related to historical instances of the resource threshold error events. Then based on the retrieved set of data, the method comprises evaluating, by an evaluation unit [308], a hysteresis for the resource threshold error event. On evaluation of a positive hysteresis for the resource threshold error event, the method further comprises generating, by a generation unit [310], a response message indicating an occurrence of the positive hysteresis.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERCONNECTIVITY BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF A MANO FRAMEWORK The present disclosure relates to system (108) and method (700) for providing interconnectivity between components of MANO framework The method (700) includes receiving (702), by a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) (304), at least one service request from an event routing manager (ERM) (208, 302) via an associated network interface. The method (700) includes extracting (704), by the NFVO (304), one or more parameters from the at least one received service request. The method (700) includes processing (706), by the NFVO (304), the at least one received service request based on the extracted one or more parameters to generate at least one orchestration request. The method (700) includes determining (708), by the NFVO (304), at least one network service associated with at least one component of the MANO framework based on the at least one generated orchestration request. Ref.

The invention provides a computing device and a computer-implemented method for upgrading an active original virtual machine, OVM, within a Network Function Virtualization, NFV, service chain implemented by a set of computing nodes, to an active upgraded virtual machine, UVM, the method comprising at least steps of: setting the original virtual machine, OVM, to a paused state;obtaining currently used port information, CUPI, of the active original virtual machine, OVM, to be upgraded;disassociating all ports from the original virtual machine, OVM, in the paused state;associating the disassociated ports with the upgraded virtual machine, UVM, based on the obtained currently used port information, CUPI; andlaunching the upgraded virtual machine, UVM.

The present disclosure relates to a method for managing communication between network services associated with a MANO framework The method includes receiving (702) at least one orchestration request based on at least one service request, from at least one network service associated with one of a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO) (304) and a Containerized Network Function (CNF) Manager (CNFM) (306) of the MANO framework. The at least one service request is received from a network element. The method includes processing (708) the at least one orchestration request to identify one or more network services associated with a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) (308) of the MANO framework. The method includes upon identifying the one or more network services, routing (708) the at least one orchestration request to the one or more network services associated with the VIM (308) using an associated interface for processing the at least one orchestration request.

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.

Techniques for tenant-driven dynamic resource allocation in a network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI). In one example, an orchestration system is operated by a data center provider of a data center, and the orchestration system includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory; logic stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the logic is operable to: compute an aggregate bandwidth for a plurality of streams associated with tenants of a datacenter provider and processed by virtual network functions assigned to the tenants executing on servers of the datacenter; and modifying the allocation of computing resources for the server executing the virtual network function based on the aggregated bandwidth.

This application relates to the field of NFV technologies, and discloses an instantiation method and apparatus for a virtualised network function VNF. The method includes: A VNFM receives a first instantiation request from an NFVO, where the first instantiation request includes configuration information of a first virtual connection point of a VNF, and the configuration information of the first virtual connection point includes configuration information of K microservices of an NF corresponding to the VNF; further determines configuration information of a first ingress container object corresponding to the first virtual connection point, where the first ingress container object configured to provide an access ingress of the K microservices; and sends the configuration information of the first ingress container object to a CISM, where the configuration information of the first ingress container object is for creating the first ingress container object. In this way, an ingress container object can be created for a microservice. Because an access address of the microservice defined by using the ingress container object may be a domain name (for example, an fqdn), an access requirement of the microservice can be met.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for detecting anomalous policies in a virtualized network. A network entity is configured to receive policy information associated with a policy for a network function virtualization (NFV)-enabled wireless network; analyze the policy information using a machine learning model to generate results, wherein the machine learning model is trained to identify anomalies in one or more policies; and transmit the results of the machine learning model analysis, the results comprising an indication of whether the policy comprises an anomaly.

The embodiment of the invention provides an IP address statistical system and method, electronic equipment, a medium and a program product, and relates to the field of wireless communication. The system comprises a first service module used for receiving IP address demand basic information of each network element deployed in a network function virtualization (NFV) network cloud system platform; the second service module is used for receiving docking configuration information of each network element of the NFV network cloud and an external system; the third service module is used for receiving resource pool deployment parameters; the resource pool deployment parameter is used for indicating the actual deployment scale of each network element under different networking types in a single resource pool, and the actual deployment scale at least comprises the actual deployment number of each network element in the single resource pool; and the fourth service module is used for counting the number of IPv4 and / or IPv6 addresses of each NFV network cloud resource pool based on the IP address demand basic information of each network element, the docking configuration information and the resource pool deployment parameters.

The present disclosure relates to a method for routing a plurality of service requests in a management and orchestration (MANO) framework (105) by an event routing manager (ERM) (130) At least one service request received from at least one network entity (201) is sent to a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) (110) of the MANO framework (105). At least one orchestration request received from the NFVO (110) is analyzed to determine at least one network service corresponding to at least one component of the MANO framework (105). The at least one component includes one of a containerized network function manager (CNFM) (115) and a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) (120). The at least one orchestration request is forwarded towards the determined network service corresponding to the at least one component of the MANO framework (105) via an EM_Cnfm interface. Ref.

The invention provides a data cache recovery method and system, relates to the technical field of computer networks, and is applied to a cache platform in a network function virtualization system. And when the service process works normally, a small number of data packets are stored as preparation for service process recovery in a covering storage mode through the shared annular queue. And when the service process is abnormal, caching the data packets to flow into the service process through the linear queue, and determining the first data packet which does not successfully pass through the service process. And after the service process is recovered, all cached data packets are recovered in time. Different cache mechanisms are adopted through normal service flow and abnormal service flow, the communication bandwidth and the processing efficiency of the shunt under the normal service flow condition are guaranteed, the method has the advantage of small cache overhead, all data packets can be accurately recovered after abnormal processing, and the service flow safety is improved. And the data packet can pass through the service process completely and reasonably under any condition, so that the purpose that the user does not perceive the data packet is achieved.

Electronic device which features: a circuit for receiving information for transmission to at least one virtual machine (141, 142) and a second virtual machine (141, 142) via a virtual switch (130); and a memory for storing configuration information set up by the virtual switch (130) to allow the first virtual machine (141, 142) to bypass the virtual switch (130) and communicate with at least one of the second virtual machines (141, 142) and a host (120).

The invention provides a DCN simulation method, the DCN is used for monitoring an optical transport network, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the simulation of a DCN interface part through behavior simulation, and obtaining an interface network model; the DCN interface part comprises the optical transport network and a target connection structure, and the target connection structure is a structure connected with the optical transport network in the DCN; simulating a DCN forwarding part through network function virtualization to obtain a forwarding network model; the DCN forwarding part comprises a link used for forwarding a data packet in the DCN. The invention further provides data communication network simulation equipment, a computer readable medium and a computer program product.

The application provides a blockchain security capability abstraction system, comprising a smart contract subset module, a consensus subset module, a peer-to-peer (P2P) subset module, a state indication module and a blockchain ledger module, wherein the smart contract subset module is used for encapsulating script code and a smart contract of the blockchain; the consensus subset module is used for making the dispersed nodes in the blockchain reach a consensus on the validity of block data and encapsulating a consensus algorithm in the blockchain; the P2P subset module is used for transmitting transaction data and block data between the nodes in the blockchain; and the state indication module is used for obtaining abnormal state information output by the blockchain. The security capability of the blockchain technology is abstracted, and a tamper-proof and traceable security protection method is provided for a service flow through software-defined security (SDS) and network function virtualization (NFV) technology.

A method includes, with a Virtual Network Function (VNF) component associated with a VNF, communicating with an access network over a first physical network connected to a first physical network interface of a physical machine associated with the VNF component. The method further includes, with the VNF component, communicating with a core network over a second physical network connected to a second physical network interface of the physical machine, the second network being isolated from the first network.

The embodiment of the invention provides a network function virtualization network element control method and device, equipment and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a network element host list and a version list; in response to a control instruction for a network function virtualization network element, determining a to-be-controlled network function virtualization network element object from the network element host list and / or the version list according to the control instruction; determining a task type of the control instruction; and under the condition that the task type is a script command task, determining a script to be executed according to the control instruction. Under the condition that the task type is a label task, determining a script to be executed according to the control instruction; and executing the script to be executed or the script to be executed on the network function virtualization network element object to be controlled. According to the embodiment of the invention, the operation and maintenance flexibility and efficiency of the network function virtualization network element are improved.

The invention provides a communication guarantee method and device for an open-pit mine field, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of communication, a physical double-route Ethernet ring network architecture which contains main and standby routes and keeps a preset distance is constructed, and a single-board-level redundancy protection mechanism is configured for a baseband processing unit and a core network server in the architecture, so that the communication guarantee capability of the open-pit mine field is improved. In addition, fault detection and path reconstruction are executed based on a preset protection protocol and a software defined network controller, and meanwhile, a base station dynamic migration operation which triggers a migration process based on environment monitoring data and realizes base station configuration deployment and service switching through a network function virtualization technology is executed. The problems that in the prior art, due to the fact that single routing topology is adopted, key equipment lacks single-board-level redundancy, the fault detection and path recovery efficiency is low, and a base station depends on manual migration, the single-point fault risk is high, the fault recovery time is long, and the mining pit propelling dynamic coverage requirement is difficult to adapt can be solved.

Systems and methods for zero-copy forwarding for network function virtualization (NFV). An example method comprises: receiving, by a supervisor of a host computer system, a definition of a packet filter originated by a virtual execution environment running on the host computer system; responsive to validating the packet filter, associating the packet filter with a vNIC of the virtual execution environment; receiving, by the supervisor, a network packet originated by the vNIC; and responsive to matching the network packet to a network connection specified by the packet filter, causing the packet filter to forward the network packet via the network connection.

Embodiments of this application disclose a method for creating a network service NS and a related apparatus. The method includes: A management device sends a network service descriptor NSD query request to a network functions virtualization orchestrator NFVO, and then receives information about an NSD from the NFVO. Because the information about the NSD includes information about a network service deployment flavour, the management device may determine an instantiation parameter based on the information about the network service deployment flavour, to request the NFVO to create an NS instance, and a staff does not need to input the instantiation parameter by using the NFVO. In this way, operation complexity of deploying the NS instance by using the management device is reduced, and an error caused by manually inputting the instantiation parameter is avoided.

The invention discloses a service function chain deployment method capable of ensuring reliability and related equipment. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a service chain request; calculating the number of primary copies of each virtual network function according to the bandwidth requirement of the service chain request; determining the number of standby copies of each virtual network function according to the reliability requirement of the service chain request; calculating a revenue-resource ratio of each service chain request, and determining a deployable service chain request subset; and deploying the network function according to the deployable service chain request subset. According to the invention, a service chain reliable deployment model of a main copy and a standby copy is provided, so that the balance between reliability and energy efficiency is realized; a reliability calculation formula is provided for the model, and the minimum reliability requirement of the SFC is met by adjusting the backup number of each VNF. The method can be widely applied to the fields of communication, cloud computing and network function virtualization.

Embodiments of the present application disclose an information processing method and device, network equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises: a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) determining a first operation to be performed based on a first information record table and a second information record table; the first information record table is used to record first related information of each policy created in a resource pool and association relationship information of each policy and a corresponding network element instance; the second information record table is used to record second related information of each network element instance in the resource pool; the first operation is used to manage the association relationship of the policy and the corresponding network element instance of the policy in the resource pool; the first information record table is generated based on an obtained policy file, and the second information record table is generated based on a change operation of the network element instance; a first type of configuration parameter corresponding to the first operation is sent to a virtual network function manager (VNFM) through a first type of interface corresponding to the first operation; wherein the first type of configuration parameter is used for the VNFM to perform the first operation.

A method and device for deploying a network function virtualization infrastructure, the method comprising: creating a resource pool hardware description file according to a predefined unified resource pool data model, the unified resource pool data model including all software and hardware information of the resource pool and a unified data format in which the software and hardware information is presented; generating a description file of a target NFVI according to design requirements of a user-defined target NFVI resource pool; generating a unified infrastructure description file for the target NFVI that conforms to the unified resource pool data model based on the resource pool hardware description file and the description file of the target NFVI; calling a deployment tool for the network function virtualization infrastructure, and using the unified infrastructure description file of the target NFVI as input to the deployment tool to deploy the target NFVI. The present invention can improve the deployment efficiency of the network function virtualization infrastructure and reduce manual interaction.