Cloud Management Platform Control via Elastic Transport Layers
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Solution Overview
Problem
In current cloud service systems, network control algorithms are run by individual cloud instances, leading to degraded network quality for other tenants when data is sent regardless of network statuses, and network statuses such as congestion and latency are not accurately reflected.
Innovation Solution
A cloud management platform provides a configuration interface for tenants to input ETP configuration parameters, creating dedicated elastic transport layers (ETPs) for cloud instances, allowing the platform to perform comprehensive network control, ensuring data is sent while considering network statuses across the entire network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If cloud instances run network control algorithms autonomously, then data transmission speed is improved, but network quality for other tenants deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network control algorithm running on a cloud management platform as an intermediary between cloud instances and the network. This mediator receives data from cloud instances, performs comprehensive network control considering overall network status, and forwards data appropriately, thus preventing direct tenant-controlled instances from degrading network quality for others while maintaining transmission efficiency
2Reliability
If network control is centralized on cloud management platform, then network quality for all tenants is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud management platform is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both the traditional cloud service management system and the network control algorithm execution platform. By making the management platform multi-functional, the patent avoids adding separate complex network control infrastructure, thus improving network quality without proportionally increasing system complexity
3Productivity
If cloud instances send data regardless of network status, then data transmission efficiency is improved, but network congestion increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the network control algorithm on the cloud management platform continuously monitors network status (congestion, latency, etc.) and uses this information to dynamically adjust data forwarding decisions. This feedback loop allows the system to maintain high transmission efficiency by routing data through optimal paths while avoiding congested network segments
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AI summary
This application discloses a network control method based on a cloud management platform and a cloud management platform, to not only meet a network requirement of each tenant in an entire network, but also ensure network quality of each tenant. The method in this application includes: A cloud management platform provides a configuration interface, where the configuration interface is configured to obtain an elastic transport layer ETP configuration parameter input by a tenant. The cloud management platform creates, based on the ETP configuration parameter, a first ETP bound to a first cloud instance of the tenant, where the first ETP is configured to forward data from the first cloud instance to the cloud management platform. The cloud management platform performs network control on the data based on the ETP configuration parameter, and sends, based on a network control result, the data to a second ETP bound to a second cloud instance, where the second ETP is configured to forward the data from the cloud management platform to the second cloud instance.