Inter-Layer Event Notification for Ethernet Fabric Resiliency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ethernet and Internet architectures face challenges in ensuring data reliability and performance due to lack of infrastructure issue addressing and event notification mechanisms, leading to reactive rather than proactive issue resolution in networks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing event notification systems within the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model to detect and manage events affecting device availability, reliability, or performance across network layers, allowing for inter-layer communication and proactive reconfiguration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If Quality of Service (QoS) standards are set up and tracked in Ethernet and Internet architectures, then data delivery reliability is improved, but the system lacks infrastructure issue addressing and event notification mechanisms, leading to reactive rather than proactive issue resolution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements event notification mechanisms that proactively detect and communicate infrastructure issues before they impact data delivery. Event detectors monitor network conditions and generate notifications when threshold violations occur, enabling preventive action rather than reactive response. This preliminary detection and notification system allows the network to take corrective actions before reliability degradation occurs.
2Reliability
If event notification systems are implemented across network layers, then proactive issue management is improved, but the device complexity increases due to inter-layer communication requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the event notification system into distinct functional components distributed across network layers. Each layer has specific event detectors that monitor layer-specific conditions and generate notifications. This segmentation allows each component to remain relatively simple while the integrated system provides comprehensive monitoring. The modular architecture reduces individual device complexity while maintaining overall system reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces event notification mechanisms as intermediary components between network layers. These intermediaries translate and communicate events across layer boundaries without requiring complex direct integration between all layers. The notification system acts as a mediator that simplifies inter-layer communication by providing standardized event detection and notification protocols.
3Ease of operation
If traditional QoS tracking is used without event notification, then the system remains simple to operate, but infrastructure issues are not proactively addressed, reducing network performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service monitoring capabilities where the network system automatically detects, notifies, and triggers responses to infrastructure issues without requiring manual intervention. Event detectors continuously monitor network conditions and automatically generate notifications when issues are detected. This self-service approach maintains ease of operation by eliminating the need for manual monitoring while simultaneously improving productivity through proactive issue resolution.
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AI summary
Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for improving resiliency in computing components functioning according to a multilayered Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model in a network architecture running Ethernet or Internet protocols by a processor device are provided. Upon detection of at least one of a certain event within a specified layer of a network architecture, a notification of the event is provided in an inter-layer basis, such that the responsible entity manages the event according to an OSI model-wide system.