US 2019/0319845 A1 · RESOURCE ADJUSTMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM

Abstract

Embodiments provide resource adjustment method, apparatus, and system. Under the method characteristic information of a service flow can be received by a communications network. A transmission path of the service flow can be determined based on a correspondence between the characteristic information of the service flow and the transmission path of the service flow. The transmission path includes a start network function NF and an end NF through which the service flow passes, and a link between the start NF and the end NF. A resource adjustment policy can then be determined for the transmission path to adjust a resource required by the service flow. With this, statuses of all network resources used for performing a service are considered during resource adjustment.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A resource adjustment method, comprising:

receiving, by a communications network, characteristic information of a service flow;
determining, by the communications network, a transmission path of the service flow based on a correspondence between the characteristic information of the service flow and the transmission path of the service flow, wherein the transmission path comprises a start network function (NF) and an end NF through which the service flow passes, and a link between the start NF and the end NF;
and
determining, by the communications network, a resource adjustment policy for the transmission path, to adjust a resource for the service flow.

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A resource adjustment apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and a computer readable medium having a plurality of computer readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the resource adjustment apparatus to:

receive characteristic information of a service flow;
determine a transmission path of the service flow based on a correspondence between the characteristic information of the service flow and the transmission path of the service flow, wherein the transmission path comprises a start network function NF and an end NF through which the service flow passes, and a link between the start NF and the end NF;
and
determine a resource adjustment policy for the transmission path, to adjust a resource required by the service flow.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/454,044Filed 26 Jun 2019

Priority

CN 201611220995.826 Dec 2016

Published

17 Oct 2019

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04L 45/306
Route determination based on requested QoS: route determination based on the nature of the carried application
H04L 41/0894
Configuration management of networks or network elements: policy-based network configuration management
H04L 41/0896
Configuration management of networks or network elements: bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities
H04L 47/2425
Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS: for supporting services specification, e.g. SLA

Resource adjustment method, apparatus, and system

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Resource adjustment method, apparatus, and system

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Abstract

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