Telecom Network Control Modules for Data Flow Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications networks face challenges in managing data flow exchanges due to increased complexity, variability in transfer types, and topology changes, leading to difficulties in coordinating distributed control systems, adapting to breakdowns, and ensuring secure information transfer across virtual private networks.
Innovation Solution
A method for managing data flow exchanges in autonomous telecommunications networks involves a self-learning phase where control modules share routing information to divert flows, measure transfer characteristics, and optimize scheduling to favor critical flows, reducing redundant information and enhancing quality of experience, using techniques like line switching and packet switching with WCCP or Openflow protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If control modules are distributed across multiple network points to improve adaptability and response time, then the network can better handle variability in transfer types and topologies, but the complexity of coordinating these distributed modules increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
A central management module acts as an intermediary that coordinates the distributed control modules. This central module receives observations from all control modules, computes global routing rules, and distributes them back to the appropriate modules, thereby simplifying the coordination complexity while maintaining distributed adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The control function is segmented into multiple independent control modules distributed across different network points, each responsible for a specific domain or region. This segmentation allows local adaptability while the central management module provides global coordination
2Measurement precision
If routing information is shared among all control modules to ensure accurate flow diversion, then flow routing accuracy improves, but the volume of control information to be exchanged increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each control module receives and applies only the routing rules relevant to its specific domain or region rather than receiving all routing information globally. This local quality approach reduces the volume of control information exchanged while maintaining routing accuracy for each module's responsibilities
3Productivity
If additional control and management devices are added to optimize flow transfer, then transfer efficiency improves, but the number of devices to be installed and maintained increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control modules are designed with multi-functionality, serving both as flow management devices and as observation points for the central management module. This universality reduces the need for separate dedicated control devices, thereby reducing installation and maintenance overhead while maintaining transfer efficiency optimization
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for managing data flow exchanges in an autonomous telecommunications network comprising a plurality of control domains, each of which includes a central communication management module for defining general rules for transferring data flows between a plurality of source machines and a plurality of destination machines, and at least one control module for enforcing said transfer rules in each of said domains. According to the invention, the control modules share dynamic parameters enabling the control of the transfer of each flow from the input to the output of each particular control domain.