US 12,732,934 B2Granted

Clock quality measurements and monitoring in 5G network

AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.

InventorsManik Singhal, Parthibhan Paramaguru

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Abstract

An apparatus configured to perform clock quality measurements and monitoring operations in one or more communication networks may comprise a memory and a processor communicatively coupled to one another. The processor may be configured to receive a first clock and a second clock from a network device, obtain multiple thresholds associated with the network device, obtain multiple error detection configuration commands, select a threshold of the multiple thresholds, select an error detection configuration command, and evaluate the first clock based at least in part upon the threshold and the error detection configuration command. Further, the processor may be configured to generate a result indicating whether the first clock comprises a clock error greater than the threshold and record the threshold and the error detection configuration command against an input reference of the clock in response to generating the result indicating that the clock comprises the clock error greater than the threshold.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a memory configured to store:
a plurality of clock source selection operations configured to facilitate selection of one or more clock sources;
and
a plurality of clock monitoring operations configured to monitor the plurality of clock source selection operations;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
receive a first clock and a second clock from a first network device;
obtain a plurality of thresholds associated with the first network device;
obtain a plurality of error detection configuration commands, each error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands is configured to evaluate clock errors in the first clock;
in accordance with the plurality of clock monitoring operations, select a first threshold of the plurality of thresholds;
in accordance with the plurality of clock monitoring operations, select a first error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands;
evaluate the first clock based at least in part upon the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command;
generate a first result indicating whether the first clock comprises a first clock error greater than the first threshold;
and
in response to generating the first result indicating that the first clock comprises the first clock error greater than the first threshold, record the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command against a first input reference of the first clock.

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A method, comprising:

receiving a first clock and a second clock from a first network device;
obtaining a plurality of thresholds associated with the first network device;
obtaining a plurality of error detection configuration commands, each error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands is configured to evaluate clock errors in the first clock;
in accordance with a plurality of clock monitoring operations, selecting a first threshold of the plurality of thresholds;
in accordance with the plurality of clock monitoring operations, selecting a first error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands;
evaluating the first clock based at least in part upon the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command;
generating a first result indicating whether the first clock comprises a first clock error greater than the first threshold;
and
in response to generating the first result indicating that the first clock comprises the first clock error greater than the first threshold, recording the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command against a first input reference of the first clock.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

receive a first clock and a second clock from a first network device;
obtain a plurality of thresholds associated with the first network device;
obtain a plurality of error detection configuration commands, each error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands is configured to evaluate clock errors in the first clock;
in accordance with a plurality of clock monitoring operations, select a first threshold of the plurality of thresholds;
in accordance with the plurality of clock monitoring operations, select a first error detection configuration command of the plurality of error detection configuration commands;
evaluate the first clock based at least in part upon the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command;
generate a first result indicating whether the first clock comprises a first clock error greater than the first threshold;
and
in response to generating the first result indicating that the first clock comprises the first clock error greater than the first threshold, record the first threshold and the first error detection configuration command against a first input reference of the first clock.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.