245 results about "Management plane" patented technology

A digital distributed antenna system (DDAS) that regains the capability to perform simulcast to multiple simulcast groups while using a base station's direct digital output is provided. The User Plane data is adapted for simulcast and also for eliminating time delay ambiguities across multiple simulcast digital radios. In addition, the Control and Management Plane is aggregated across multiple remote units to allow a non-modified donor digital base station to control simulcast groups. The result is a low cost digital DAS that can efficiently distribute the capacity of a digital base station to solve coverage and capacity requirements in a manner similar to that now accomplished using a traditional base station with RF in / out.

The invention provides a method for building a service path, which comprises following steps: firstly, obtaining network topology information of a topology network, cross constraint information and resources status information of node equipment by each node control plane processor in advance, secondly, sending service path building requests which are from a source node to a destination node to the source node in the topology network by a managing plane, thirdly, searching service path from the source node to the destination node, which accords with the requirements for building the service path on the basis of the network topology information, the cross constraint information and the resources status information, thereby the invention adopts a mode of combining centralized path calculation and distributed resource allocation to achieve the purpose for saving system resource and the service path building efficiency in the process for building a service wavelength path.

Systems and methods for performing protection switching in a passive optical network are provided. When a fiber cut is detected, control and management plane applications are not immediately informed. A rapid re-registration procedure is instigated upon detection of a fiber cut event. This allows multiple optical network units to re-register quickly without restarting control and management applications.

A method, a network element, and a network include determining excess margin relative to margin needed to ensure performance at a nominal guaranteed rate associated with a flexible optical modem configured to communicate over an optical link; causing the flexible optical modem to consume most or all of the excess margin, wherein the capacity increased above the nominally guaranteed rate includes excess capacity; and mapping the excess capacity to one or more logical interfaces for use by a management system, management plane, and / or control plane. The logical interfaces can advantageously be used by the management system, management plane, and / or control plane as one of restoration bandwidths or short-lived bandwidth-on-demand (BOD) connections, such as sub-network connections (SNCs) or label switched paths (LSPs).

A cross-domain network resource reservation scheduler configured to schedule a path from at least one end-site includes a management plane device configured to monitor and provide information representing at least one of functionality, performance, faults, and fault recovery associated with a network resource; a control plane device configured to at least one of schedule the network resource, provision local area network quality of service, provision local area network bandwidth, and provision wide area network bandwidth; and a service plane device configured to interface with the control plane device to reserve the network resource based on a reservation request and the information from the management plane device. Corresponding methods and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.

Various cognitive communications system architectures and their corresponding Protocol Reference Models (PRMs) are disclosed. Such PRMs incorporate a Cognitive Plane in addition to conventional Data and Management Planes. The additional Cognitive Plane functionality may include, for example, spectrum sensing, spectrum management, geolocation, and security functions. The Cognitive Plane may further include a Policy Engine and a Learning and Reasoning Module. In some embodiments, Management Plane functions may be effectively combined to form a database of primitives (and their respective values) called a Management Information Base (MIB). In addition, techniques are provided by which various components of cognitive and non-cognitive, as well as mesh-enabled and non-mesh-enabled nodes in a network, inter-operate with each other. The architectures allow a Spectrum Manager (or Signal Space Manager) to combine information from various network layers (e.g., PHY / MAC Layers, Spectrum Sensing Function, Geolocation Function, and / or Security Sublayers), and to make informed decisions on spectrum utilization.

Autonomous link discovery specifies a method and associated procedures that automatically discover various levels of transmission links and paths between transport network elements residing in the transport plane of communications networks. Unlike more traditional centralized polling techniques rooted in a management plane, autonomous link discovery procedures are rooted in and triggered by network elements composing the transport plane. As such, autonomous link discovery procedures may be event driven and execute in a coordinated, distributed fashion to automatically detect new link connectivity associations and correlate link endpoint attributes between these network elements. Once successful link correlations have been determined, autonomous notifications of these correlated link associations are sent to management elements and / or control elements residing in their respective management and control plane domains.

A data server for use in networks in which media signals are transmitted as digital signals in packet form comprises at least one shelf having at least one card whose purposes are to provide a shelf controller function and a media processor function, together with a plurality of backplane buses. The data server accesses media signals in packet form. Distributed software is distributed in the cards on the shelf, and consists of a modular software architecture having a transport layer, a media processing layer, a session control layer, and a management plane which spans across the other layers. A plurality of digital signal processors has a plurality of dynamically changeable discrete software objects so as to process packets of media data. The management plane provisions and monitors the operations of said data server, and gives alarms in keeping with predetermined criteria. There is at least one connection interface to a packet network from which media signals in media form are received. The distributed software architecture media processing layer includes a software manager for initializing, coordinating, and controlling the plurality of discrete software objects embedded in the plurality of digital signal processors

The invention provides an internet of things data acquisition and transmission device and a management method thereof. The data acquisition and transmission device that can trace the source of food raw materials, and ensure the effective traceability of the whole supply chain and work transparency among terminals is provided, and at least comprises an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) label, a reader, a portable reader-writer and a main server. The data acquisition and transmission device has the beneficial effects of achieving convenience and excellent performance, being capable of updating production and circulation information of goods and foods in the process of operation immediately, enabling users to know the production and circulation trend of the goods and the foods, providing various food information channels related to quality safety management planes, being beneficial to goods process and transparent management and supervision of related quality and time effect, and greatly improving the present goods and food safety management systems.

The invention discloses a light multiplexing layer power optimizing system and method that includes monitoring module which is corresponding with said light amplifier and used to monitor input and output power of light amplifier; control module which is corresponding with said managing flat or control flat surface and used to control and query said monitoring module; executing module which is corresponding with said light amplifier and light attenuator; the three modules are connected via network managing system. The invention firstly monitors the line condition, inquires the input and output power of light amplifier, then calculates adjusting value which is corresponding with the light amplifier and light attenuator according to the input and output power of light amplifier inquired, the adjustment of light amplifier and light attenuator are executed dynamically based on adjusting value calculated. Using the method of the invention can optimize the power of light multiplexing layer gently, and guarantee the running of inerrability during the cause of optimization.

The invention discloses a virtual routing device and a routing method thereof and relates to the technical field of an internet. The device disclosed by the invention comprises programmable hardware and a host, wherein the programmable hardware is used for achieving the data packet transmission function of a data plane; the host achieves the functions of a control plane and a management plane and comprises a host control unit and a virtual machine unit; the host control unit is used for initializing the programmable hardware and the virtual machine unit and periodically updating the items in the programmable hardware; and the virtual machine unit is used for achieving the functions of processing route protocols and processing data packets, generating and updating a route table and an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table in real time and providing the route table and the ARP table for the host control unit. In the invention, multiple parallel virtual networks can be simultaneously supported to operate different applications; the established different virtual networks can be completely isolated and are not mutually interfered; the forwarding rate is high and can reach the linear speed; and the device provided by the invention also has the characteristics of programmable depth, flexibility in configuration and good expansibility.

The invention discloses a method and a device for defending network attacks, filter rules of data massages are configured for a sending-up business filter on a forwarding plane of a network device, the data massages of a user with forbidden access are filtered according to the rules, the data massages which are corresponding to each user are divided into different priorities according to the different identifies of the users who access the network device, and the data massages are transmitted into a business service module of a control plane and / or a management plane through the different priority channels in an internal communication interface for carrying out the processing. The method and the device can distinguish the useful data massages and network attack massages, filter the data massages of illegal users, effectively reduce the load on the network device due to the network attack massages and improve the ability of the network device for defending the network attacks.

A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within an XML routed network; and a distinct data plane for receiving and forwarding customer data. Some functions can be implemented in software or via a hardware accelerator.

A Time Division Duplexed (TDD) digital distributed antenna system (DDAS) that performs simulcast distribution to multiple simulcast groups while using TDD time advanced burst to negate the data rate reducing effects of transport delays. The User Plane data is adapted for eliminating time delay ambiguities across multiple simulcast digital radios. In addition, the Control and Management Plane is aggregated across multiple remote units to allow a non-modified donor digital base station to control simulcast groups.

A method of reconfiguring a network having a transport plane for carrying subscriber traffic flows within end-to-end connections, a control plane for managing at least a portion of resources of the transport plane allocated to each connection, and a management plane for implementing management functions in the control plane and any resources of the transport plane that are not managed by the control plane. The method comprises installing an updated version of a control plane name space for a target node of the network. For each connection traversing the target node: a control plane to management plane migration is performed for removing connection state in the control plane associated with the connection, so as to transfer ownership of the connection from the control plane to the management plane; followed by a management plane to control plane migration for installing new connection state in the control plane associated with the connection, so as to transfer ownership of the connection from the management plant to the control plane, the new connection state being defined using the updated version of the control plane name space.

A method for realizing light multicast in intelligent light network includes forming user group management base by utilizing service management module in management layer; applying light multicast mechanism managed by management layer and control layer and utilizing manner of dynamically setting up multicast route, adding and deleting leaf node, summing ¿C up link and setting up connection one by one to achieve light multicast on large network for saving a lot of routes and bandwidth.

The invention discloses a data processing method, apparatus and system, which comprises: when control strategy of control management plane is updated, updating the edition information of the control strategy; when data plane receives data message while the no item including the current data stream identification exists in the stream table of data plane, establishing an item in the stream table of data plane and processing the current data message according to the established stream table item or the control strategy of the control management plane; when the item including the current data stream identification exists in the stream table of data plane, judging whether stream table item edition information matches the edition information of the control strategy of the current control management plane, if matching, processing the current data message according to the stream table item, otherwise, processing the current data message according to the control strategy of the current control management plane. The invention can insure the consistency of the data processing mode of data plane and the control strategy of the control management plane, consequently, avoid data processing errors.

Various cognitive communications system architectures and their corresponding Protocol Reference Models (PRMs) are disclosed. Such PRMs incorporate a Cognitive Plane in addition to conventional Data and Management Planes. The additional Cognitive Plane functionality may include, for example, spectrum sensing, spectrum management, geolocation, and security functions. The Cognitive Plane may further include a Policy Engine and a Learning and Reasoning Module. In some embodiments, Management Plane functions may be effectively combined to form a database of primitives (and their respective values) called a Management Information Base (MIB). In addition, techniques are provided by which various components of cognitive and non-cognitive, as well as mesh-enabled and non-mesh-enabled nodes in a network, inter-operate with each other. The architectures allow a Spectrum Manager (or Signal Space Manager) to combine information from various network layers (e.g., PHY / MAC Layers, Spectrum Sensing Function, Geolocation Function, and / or Security Sublayers), and to make informed decisions on spectrum utilization.

An information processing system includes a server for managing image files of a planar view image file format and a plurality of first information processing apparatuses each capable of transmitting / receiving an image file via the server. At least one of the first information processing apparatuses includes first transmission means for modifying metadata of an image file of a multi-view image file format which contains a multi-view image, to metadata of an image file of a planar view image file format, and transmitting the image file to the server. At least one of the first information processing apparatuses includes first display control means for, when an image file of the planar view image file format that is received from the server contains a multi-view image, performing multi-view display on a first display device by using the multi-view image.

Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and / or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and / or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and / or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program.

An approach is provided for creating mobile virtual routers (MVRs). A mobile virtual router is dynamically configured based on an application, wherein the mobile virtual router includes a control plane instance, a forwarding plane instance, and a management plane instance. Data associated with the application is forwarded over the network using the mobile virtual router. The control plane instance, the forwarding plane instance, and the management plane instance are moveable among the plurality of physical routers.

The invention discloses an association method and a system of a management plane and a service plane of big data analysis and mining. The method comprises the following steps: a data gateway acquires result data obtained by model operation from a data analysis and mining platform and synchronizes management information and index information of a model from the data analysis and mining platform; the data gateway establishes a data output index according to the management information, the index information and the result data; and the data gateway judges use authority of a data demander for the use according to the data output index and outputs the result data to the data demander after processing the result data according to preset security rules. The association method and the system of the management plane and the service plane of the big data analysis and mining can solve the problems in security of data opening and ordering management in the prior art.

A method and system for changing the extent of data plane resources controlled by a control plane for a network connection which spans a contiguous set of nodes controlled by existing network control resources is disclosed. This is done in a non-disruptive manner. This typically involves two steps: i) Creating a new set of control plane resources for said network connection such that said data plane resources are shared with said existing network control resources; and ii) then terminating the existing network control resources such that said data plane resources are fully transferred to the new set of control plane resources without disrupting said network connection. The existing network control resources can be either a control plane resource or a non control plane resource. An example of a non control plane resource is network management software (e.g., an OSS (Operation Support System)), which forms part of the Management Plane. It should be noted that this does not need to be done for a complete end-to-end connection, but rather can be executed for the portion of the end-to-end connection which is to be controlled by the control plane.

The invention discloses a network management method of a container cloud platform, and relates to the technical field of cloud computing. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, creating acontainer management plane, and configuring VLAN mutual communication between the container management plane and a cloud platform management plane; creating a container cluster virtual machine in a computing node, setting two network cards in the container cluster virtual machine, and allocating a container management plane network to one of the network cards, so that the container cluster virtualmachine communicates with the cloud platform management plane through the network card; configuring the other network card for container service communication; and calling cloud platform infrastructure to create a container cluster in the container cluster virtual machine. According to the network management method disclosed by the invention, the container cluster virtual machine can communicatewith the cloud platform management plane through the container management plane, and can simultaneously use the resources of the cloud platform infrastructure normally. The cloud platform management plane and a service plane do not need to be penetrated, and thus no influence is generated on other normal services of a cloud platform. The invention further discloses a network management system of the container cloud platform.

In one embodiment, a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) proxy point (FPP) that is connected to one or more end-point devices is coupled to one or more other FPPs, and to a FCoE control and management plane (F-CMP) server. The FPP provides data plane functionality. The F-CMP server provides control plane functionality. At least some control and management traffic received at the FPP is proxied between the F-CMP server and the one or more end point devices connected to the FPP. FCoE traffic received at the FPP from the one or more end point devices connected to the FPP is transmitted to the one or more other FPPs without the FCoE traffic traversing the F-CMP server. The transmitting is performed by data plane functionality of the FPP operating under directions from the control plane functionality of the F-CMP server.

Apparatus and method are provided for enabling establishment of cross-domain services, including exchange of reachability information between domains, routing of services across domains, and differential labeling. The network element control and management planes are supplemented by additional components that enable the control and management planes of each domain to inter-communicate in a peer-to-peer manner. Adjacencies are established between domains, and service reachability information is exchanged between domains. Network Service Applications within the management planes can then establish services across the domains by inter-communicating.