Method and device for establishing performance measurement task and processing performance measurement result

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10554532-B2
Application number	US-201415324729-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2014
Priority date	Jul 10, 2014
Publication date	Feb 4, 2020
Grant date	Feb 4, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a processing method and apparatus for creating a performance measurement task and processing performance measurement results. In the above-mentioned method, performance measurement objects and a correspondence between virtual network functions (VNFs) and the performance measurement objects are established in a management information base; a first performance measurement task creating message from an operation support system (OSS) or a network management system (NMS) is received; and performance measurement results are acquired from the VNFs according to the first performance measurement task creating message, and a performance measurement file is reported to the OSS or the NMS, herein the performance measurement results are carried in the performance measurement file. Implementation of comprehensive and effective assessment of the quality of the VNFs and the processing capacity of a virtual network device is facilitated according to the technical schemes provided by the present disclosure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processing method for creating a performance measurement task, comprising:
establishing performance measurement objects and a correspondence between virtual network functions (VNFs) and the performance measurement objects in a management information base;
receiving a first performance measurement task creating message from an operation support system (OSS) or a network management system (NMS); and
acquiring performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the first performance measurement task creating message, and reporting a performance measurement file to the OSS or the NMS, wherein the performance measurement results are carried in the performance measurement file.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein acquiring performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the first performance measurement task creating message comprises:
acquiring first identification information of the performance measurement objects from the first performance measurement task creating message;
determining second identification information of the VNFs, corresponding to the first identification information; and
acquiring the performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the second identification information,
wherein acquiring the performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the second identification information comprises:
sending a second performance measurement task creating message to the VNFs according to the second identification information; and
receiving the performance measurement results from the VNFs, and generating the performance measurement file according to a pre-set performance measurement file template, wherein the performance measurement results are carried in the performance measurement file.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein acquiring performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the first performance measurement task creating message comprises:
acquiring second identification information of the VNFs from the first performance measurement task creating message; and
acquiring the performance measurement results from the VNFs according to the second identification information;
or
wherein the second identification information is further carried in the performance measurement file, wherein the second identification information is used by the OSS or the NMS for determining the VNFs to which the performance measurement results belong.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performance measurement objects include network function object instances; establishing a correspondence between VNFs and the performance measurement objects in a management information base comprises:
adding VNF object instances to the management information base, wherein the second identification information of the VNFs is contained in the VNF object instances; and
establishing an association between the VNF object instances and the network function object instances, wherein related attribute information corresponding to the network function object instances is added to the VNF object instances and related attribute information corresponding to the VNF object instances is added to the network function object instances; or establishing an inclusion relation between the VNF object instances and the network function object instances,
wherein the related attribute information corresponding to the VNF object instances or the second identification information is carried in the performance measurement file; and the related attribute information corresponding to the VL object instances or the third identification information is carried in the performance measurement file.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performance measurement objects include: network function object instances, link object instances and link endpoint object instances; establishing a correspondence between VNFs and the performance measurement objects in a management information base comprises:
adding VNF object instances and virtual link, VL, object instances to the management information base, wherein the second identification information of the VNFs is contained in the VNF object instances, and third identification information of VLs is contained in the VL object instances;
establishing an association between the VNF object instances and the network function object instances, wherein related attribute information corresponding to the network function object instances is added to the VNF object instances and related attribute information corresponding to the VNF object instances is added to the network function object instances; or establishing an inclusion relation between the VNF object instances and the network function object instances;
establishing an association between the VL object instances and the link object instances, wherein related attribute information corresponding to the link object instances is added to the VL object instances and related attribute information corresponding to the VL object instances is added to the link object instances; and
establishing an association between the VL object instances and the link endpoint object instances, wherein related attribute information corresponding to the link endpoint object instances is added to the VL object instances and related attribute information corresponding to the VL object instances is added to the link endpoint object instances;
or
wherein the performance measurement objects include: network function object instances, link object instances and link endpoint object instances; establishing a correspondence between VNFs and the performance measurement objects in a management information base comprises:
adding the second identification information of the VNFs to the network function object instances; and
adding third identification information of VLs to the link object instances or the link endpoint object instances.

6. A method for processing performance measurement results, comprising:
sending a performance measurement task creating message to an element management system (EMS);
receiving a performance measurement file from the EMS, wherein a first performance measurement result is carried in the performance measurement file, and the first performance measurement result is acquired from virtual network functions (VNFs) by the EMS; and
determining the VNFs and/or virtual links (VLs) to which the first performance measurement result belongs according to a correspondence between performance measurement objects and the VNFs, established in a management information base.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the EMS acquiring the first performance measurement result from VNFs comprises one of:
the EMS acquiring first identification information of the performance measurement objects from the performance measurement task creating message, determining second identification information of the VNFs, corresponding to the first identification information, and then acquiring the first performance measurement result from the VNFs according to the second identification information;
the EMS acquiring the second identification information from the performance measurement task creating message, and then acquiring the first performance measurement result from the VNFs according to the second identification information;
or
wherein after the VNFs and/or VLs to which the first performance measurement result belongs are determined according to the correspondence, the method further comprises:
acquiring a second performance measurement result corresponding to the second identification information from a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO); and
statistically analyzing the first performance measurement result and the second perf

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Chen Liping

Classifications

• G06F2009/45591

  Monitoring or debugging support · CPC title

• H04L43/50 Primary

  Testing arrangements · CPC title

• H04L43/12

  Network monitoring probes · CPC title

• H04L43/06

  Generation of reports · CPC title

• H04L43/20 Primary

  the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV · CPC title