Resource Counter Tracking Service for Virtualized Network Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network infrastructure lacks a centralized system to monitor and provide comprehensive resource inventory details across different types of virtualized devices and networks, such as container and virtual machine environments, limiting the availability of metrics like hardware usage, Quality of Service, and network redundancy to external systems.
Innovation Solution
A resource counter tracking service that monitors and generates resource information for various virtualization types, including hardware usage, Quality of Service, and network metrics, and provides this information to external systems through a 5G charging function, which interprets and processes resource data according to standard and non-standard specifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a centralized resource monitoring system is implemented across virtualized networks, then comprehensive resource inventory details and metrics become available to external systems, but system complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service communication interface as an intermediary layer between virtualized network functions and external systems. This interface acts as a standardized mediator that translates internal resource monitoring data into externally accessible formats, thereby making comprehensive resource inventory details available while managing system integration complexity through standardized communication protocols
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system is segmented into modular components including service communication interfaces, resource counters, and virtualized network function elements. Each component handles specific aspects of resource tracking independently, allowing comprehensive monitoring capability to be achieved through coordinated modular units rather than a monolithic complex system
2Adaptability or versatility
If resource monitoring covers multiple virtualization types (containers, VMs), then comprehensive infrastructure metrics are obtained, but measurement and tracking difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service communication interface is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple virtualization types including containers and virtual machines through a unified interface. This multi-functional design enables comprehensive infrastructure metrics to be obtained across different virtualization platforms while maintaining consistent measurement and tracking mechanisms, thereby reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring resources across diverse environments
3Productivity
If detailed resource usage metrics are collected and made available externally, then better resource management and billing are enabled, but information security and access control requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service communication interface serves as a secure intermediary that controls access to detailed resource usage metrics. It implements authorized access mechanisms that enable better resource management and billing through comprehensive data availability, while simultaneously maintaining information security by regulating who can access what data through standardized authentication and authorization protocols
Data Source
AI summary
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a resource counter tracking service is provided. The service may include the collection of resource information by a charging function from a virtualized device. The resource information may include information pertaining to hardware usage, quality of service, and transport resources associated with the virtualized device, a cluster, or a data center of relevance. The charging function may generate event information based on the resource information, and make available the event information to third party devices.