44 results about "Network orchestration" patented technology

In an embodiment, a network-based media processing system includes a media control plane implementing a first network protocol. The media control plane includes a media origin server. The system further includes a network control plane implementing a second network protocol. The network control plane includes a network platform orchestrator, a network orchestration client, a network resource element, and a plurality of media processing elements. A system further includes a media data plane implementing a third network protocol. The media data plane includes a plurality of media resources. The system further includes a media interchange format configured to provide a unified data format for delivering media according to a format requested from a client device. The first network protocol is different from the second network protocol.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a request for a network service between two network nodes and identifying a network path between the two network nodes, wherein the network path is realized by equipment performing a number of network functions. A first network function of the number of network functions is associated with a first number of redundant virtualized network resources performing at least a similar network function as the first network function. Usage metrics are determined corresponding to the first number of redundant virtualized network resources and a first virtualized network resource of the first number of redundant virtualized network resources is assigned to the network path based on the usage metrics to obtain a first assigned virtualized network resource. The network service is provided between the two network nodes using the first assigned virtualized network resource. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A novel network arrangement and method for handling sessions or calls in a communications network is provided. More particularly, a novel network arrangement and method for avoiding “ghost calls” in IP based communications networks for achieving higher session completion rates is provided. An inventive network arrangement comprises at least the following: a session border controller for monitoring and/or controlling available resources for sessions involving a user terminal and for determining a busy condition if a new session's resource requirements are in excess of the available resources; and an application server for intercepting a busy notification generated towards the new session's origination in response to a busy condition, the application server further configured to either generate a notification towards the new session's destination or redirect the new session to a different destination.

The invention relates to a physical slicing method based on an SDN technology. The method comprises the following steps: setting dedicated base installation resource and grading; determining the safety level of a user applying for the network resource; according to the safety level of the user, virtualizing to form an independent physical slicing template; according to the user requirement, executing the network orchestration on the physical slicing template, creating a network function module and an interface in the instantiation mode, and forming the physical slicing. The method is used for liberating the limitation of the public network base installation in the aspects of function, performance and safety, and satisfying the dedicated requirement. The dedicated device is used for reducing the interaction between a dedicated user and the public network device. The safety is improved by the mode of physical insulation, and the trusted network and the safe grading can be realized.

A distributed order orchestration system is provided that includes an event manager configured to generate and publish a set of events based on a process state and metadata stored in a database. A set of subscribers can consume the set of events, and each subscriber can execute a task based on the consumed event.

The invention provides a network deployment method and device. The method comprises the steps that network arrangement parameters, a dependency relationship chain and network topology are acquired, each protocol node in the dependency relationship chain is pre-configured with a corresponding arrangement template, and the arrangement templates are used for describing parameter information on whicheach protocol node depends; performing network protocol arrangement according to the network arrangement parameters, the dependency relationship chain and the network topology to generate network configuration information; and issuing the network configuration information to the equipment. By means of the network deployment method and device, the problems that a network deployment mode provided inthe prior art is high in operation complexity and low in error-tolerant rate are solved, the operation complexity of the network deployment configuration process is reduced through the established dependency relationship chain, and automatic deployment and rapid delivery of a basic network of a large data center are better facilitated.

The present invention discloses a method and system for realizing automatic update of a virtual network function descriptor. The method comprises the steps that a network composer issues virtual network element operating performance check indexes to a virtual network element management device; a monitor reports current operating indexes of virtual network elements in real time to the virtual network element management device; the virtual network element management device judges if the current operating indexes are within preset permissible ranges of the check indexes; if not, the virtual network element management device reports a VNFD parameter updating request to the network composer; and the network composer automatically adjusts parameters in the VNFD according to the VNFD parameter updating request. According to the method and the system, virtual machine operating performance check indexes are issued by the network composer, a network function management device compares data reported by the monitor with the check indexes and intelligently applies for updating of parameters in the VNFD files, thus to realize optimized deployment of virtual networks and functions, and raise the use ratio of physical devices.

An SDN cloud network integrated system based on the UTN is characterized by comprising an interconnection cloud platform used for opening and setting cloud resources, a network layer used for end-to-end transmission, a control layer used for managing and controlling all devices in the network layer, and a cloud data center used for storing cloud data resources. The cloud network management equipment manages the cloud private line gateways according to the user cloud private line information sent by the interconnected cloud platform, and controls the corresponding cloud private line gateways tocomplete gateway setting; Meanwhile, the coordinator performs network arrangement according to the network address and bandwidth information of the user equipment sent by the interconnected cloud platform and transmits the network arrangement to the client terminal equipment manager and the network controller; The client terminal equipment manager selects client terminal equipment and sets the client terminal equipment according to the received user equipment information, and the network controller manages each gateway in the network layer according to the received network arrangement information and controls each corresponding gateway to complete gateway setting, thereby completing the opening of a cloud special line from the user equipment to the cloud resource pool.

The invention discloses a capability opening method and system and a capability opening functional entity. The capability opening method comprises steps of obtaining current network information after receiving a requirement for a mobile network of a third party; creating networking information of an exclusive network on the basis of the requirement and current network information, wherein the networking information of the exclusive network is used for indicating to create an exclusive network and/or an exclusive network element; and transmitting the networking information of the exclusive network to a network arrangement functional entity. The embodiment of the capability opening method and system and the capability opening functional entity solve a problem that the opening capability in the related technology is only limited to opening a capability of a conventional network and cannot provide an extra service beyond the capability of the conventional network.

The invention provides a capacity expansion and shrinkage method and equipment for a service virtual network function VNF, and the equipment comprises the steps: obtaining monitoring index data whichcomprises dynamic monitoring index data changing in real time and static monitoring index data changing in non-real time; when it is determined that the static monitoring index data meets a preset requirement, determining capacity expansion or capacity reduction, and otherwise, determining whether capacity expansion is performed or not according to the dynamic monitoring index data; and when it isdetermined that capacity expansion or capacity reduction is performed, sending an instruction to a management and network orchestration MANO server to instruct the MANO server to perform capacity expansion or capacity reduction. According to the capacity expansion and shrinkage method and device for the service virtual network function VNF provided by the invention, the problem that an existing capacity expansion and shrinkage method for the service VNF is inaccurate in capacity expansion and shrinkage decision and causes resource waste or overweight system load is solved.

The invention relates to the technical field of network function virtualization, and discloses a unified template management system of a cloud native network scene arrangement platform, the unified template management system realizes management of scene templates and scene object instances, the management comprises naming, query and maintenance processes, and the unified template management system is deployed between an MANO system and a BOSS system, the virtual resource arrangement function and the network arrangement function of a plurality of heterogeneous network MANO are called, and a plurality of different BOSS task management requirements are coordinated, so that the flexible deployment of the cloud native network under the heterogeneous condition is realized.

The invention discloses a method and a system for dynamically allocating network resources of a cloud data center. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a network service demand of a user through a network resource arrangement module of a cloud data center, obtaining a plurality of service chains according to the network service demand, and sending each service chain to a network equipment control module; interpreting the received service chains by using a network equipment control module to obtain control flow tables in one-to-one correspondence with the network nodes in the service chains, and sending the control flow tables to the corresponding network nodes; wherein the control flow table comprises network service requirements; and forwarding the data by using the networknode according to the control flow table to realize dynamic allocation of resources. According to the method and the system, the network arrangement module is utilized to obtain the corresponding service chain, the network equipment control module is utilized to obtain the control flow table according to the service chain, the control flow table is issued to the network node in advance, and dataforwarding is performed according to the issued control flow table, thereby realizing dynamic allocation of network resources.

The invention provides a method and a system for receiving and managing an SDN based on a K8S platform and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: a main plug-in module monitors a K8S API event of the K8S platform, and converts the K8S API event into an SDN Hub event of an SDN Hub model; the main plug-in module calls the SDN Hub module and sends an SDN Hub event to the SDN Hub module; and the SDN Hub module calls the corresponding SDN plug-in module based on the SDN Hub event so as to perform control processing on the SDN network. According to the method, the system and the storage medium disclosed by the invention, the problem that the K8S platform can only access the single-manufacturer SDN is solved, the capability of receiving and managing the multi-manufacturer SDN is achieved, and unified access and arrangement of the heterogeneous SDN are realized by taking the SDN Hub as a network arrangement component of the K8S.

The invention provides a network arrangement method and device, electronic equipment and a computer storage medium. The network arrangement method comprises: obtaining an initial slice particle swarm of a to-be-arranged network; performing iteration processing on the initial slice particle swarm; under the condition that a locally optimal slice particle exists in the initial slice particle swarm after iteration processing, mapping a chaos variable obtained in advance into a solution space of the initial slice particle swarm to obtain a mapped slice particle swarm; and based on the mapped slice particle swarm, determining a globally optimal slice particle in the initial slice particle swarm. According to the network arrangement method, the chaos variables obtained in advance are mapped into the solution space of the initial slice particle swarm to update the slice particles, so that the optimal routing scheme can be obtained, and meanwhile, the complexity of the algorithm is also reduced.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of network orchestration, in particular to a model conversion method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, in the invention, a source model and a target model are acquired, and the source model and the target model are used for describing a data format; obtaining a mapping relationship between the field of the source model and the field of the target model; acquiring source model data; and converting the source model data into target model data according to the mapping relation. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a mapping relationship between a source model and a target model as well as between a source model field and a target model field so as to obtain a mapping relationship between different models, then acquiring source model data, and converting the source model data into target model data according to the mapping relationship, so that the conversion is not limited to the conversion between fixed models, and the conversion efficiency is greatly improved. The method can be suitable for conversion between different models, does not need to encode the different models again, saves human resources, and reduces conversion time consumption.

The embodiment of the invention provides an asynchronous task execution method in network arrangement based on distributed scheduling. The method comprises the steps that when a flow is executed to an asynchronous task node, an SDN controller is called to execute an asynchronous API, a serial number and a node code of the current asynchronous task node are sent to the SDN controller, and flow execution is paused; when a configuration result issuing message is received, storing the configuration result issuing message into a message queue, and triggering a callback service to analyze a serial number and a node code of an asynchronous task node from the configuration result issuing message; and querying the corresponding flow number, the service instance and the flow execution record, calling an orchestration engine corresponding to the service instance, continuing to execute the flow from the asynchronous task node, and returning work order information after the flow execution is finished. In this way, receiving of the synchronous service data is not affected in the process of executing the asynchronous process, and the service data execution efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a cloud management platform and method for managing multiple firewall resources. The cloud management platform includes: a resource abstraction layer, a network arrangement layer, a driver management layer and a bottom resource layer; the resource abstraction layer is used to receive the firewall to be created. Various attribute information, and generate a firewall resource request, where each attribute information is obtained by configuring the firewall resource model; the network orchestration layer is used to determine the cloud platform type to which the firewall to be created belongs according to the resource request, and according to the cloud platform type Arrange network resources; the driver management layer is used to convert parameters of various attribute information of the firewall to be created, and is also used to call the application program interface of the underlying resource layer to pass the attribute information of the firewall to be created to the underlying resource layer. ; The bottom resource layer is used to create the corresponding firewall according to the attribute information of the firewall to be created. The cloud management platform of the present invention realizes the function of managing firewalls of various types and manufacturers.

A method for providing network orchestration for industrial communication system with multiple network slices, comprising: —calculating centralities of nodes in the industrial communication system; —grouping nodes with similar centralities of nodes into clusters; —selecting cluster head for each cluster that is responsible for the resources allocation for the members of the cluster; and—calculating centrality metric for cluster centralities, so as to orchestrate the industrial communication system.

The invention provides a network data management method, a cloud platform and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: generating a network arrangement log of a network element in response to a network arrangement operation executed by a user on the network element outside the cloud platform; and issuing the network orchestration log to a controller, so that the controller performs network orchestration on the network element by processing the network orchestration log. The user can arrange the network elements on the cloud platform, and the cloud platform can also issue thenetwork arrangement logs of the network elements to the controller for network arrangement, so thatand therefore the management of the external physical network is realized through the cloud platform. Because the cloud platform can manage the internal virtual network, the integrated management of the virtual network and the physical network is realized through the cloud platform, and the operation and maintenance efficiency of the network is improved.