Network configuration sending method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12526182-B2
Application number	US-202118027170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2021
Priority date	Sep 29, 2020
Publication date	Jan 13, 2026
Grant date	Jan 13, 2026

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network configuration sending method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining N rule-action pairs corresponding to Quality of Service (QoS) configuration information of each layer in Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) configuration, wherein the N rule-action pairs are used for representing network configuration rules and network configuration actions corresponding to the QoS configuration information, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1; and sending, to a forwarding plane of a Broadband Remote Access System (BRAS), target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs, wherein the forwarding plane is used for configuring the target QoS configuration information into a target device to configure a network of the target device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A network configuration sending method, comprising following operations performed by a control plane of a Broadband Remote Access System (BRAS):
determining N rule-action pairs corresponding to Quality of Service (QOS) configuration information of each layer in Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) configuration, wherein the N rule-action pairs represent network configuration rules and network configuration actions corresponding to the QoS configuration information, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1; and sending, to a forwarding plane of the BRAS, target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs to trigger the forwarding plane to configure the target QoS configuration information into a target device to configure a network of the target device, wherein determining the N rule-action pairs corresponding to the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HQOS configuration comprises: defining the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HOOS configuration based on a preset protocol; determining rule information and action information corresponding to the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HQOS configuration, wherein the rule information comprises a rule type, a rule length and a rule value, and the action information comprises an action type, an action length and an action value; and determining, based on the rule information and the action information, the N rule-action pairs corresponding to the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HQOS configuration.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, to the forwarding plane of the BRAS, the target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs comprises:
sending, to the forwarding plane of the BRAS based on structural information between the N rule-action pairs and the target QoS configuration information, the target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs, wherein the structural information comprises a mapping relationship between the N rule-action pairs and the target QoS configuration information.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after determining the N rule-action pairs corresponding to the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HQOS configuration, the method further comprises:
determining a Type Length Value (TLV) of the QoS configuration information of each layer; and determining, according to semantic information of the TLV, one or more rule-action pair combinations corresponding to the QoS configuration information, wherein the N rule-action pairs comprise the one or more rule-action pair combinations.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein
the TLV is defined for each hierarchical ACL&QoS policy, a rule-action pair combination contained in the TLV is defined by semantics of the TLV of the hierarchical ACL&QoS policy, and the rule-action pair TLV is used as a subordinate nested TLV of the ACL&QoS policy TLV.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein
an ACL&QoS policy is represented by a type of a message issued by the control plane of the BRAS, and a rule-action pair TLV combination contained in the ACL&QoS policy is used as a data load of the message.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after determining the N rule-action pairs corresponding to the QoS configuration information of each layer in the HQOS configuration, the method further comprises:
determining one or more rule-action pair combinations corresponding to the QoS configuration information, wherein the N rule-action pairs comprise the one or more rule-action pair combinations; and determining a transmission message for data transmission between the control plane and the forwarding plane of the BRAS; and determining the one or more rule-action pair combinations as a data load of the transmission message based on a message type of the transmission message.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, to the forwarding plane of the BRAS, the target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs comprises:
encapsulating the N rule-action pairs to an upper-layer application message; and sending the upper-layer application message to the forwarding plane, wherein the forwarding plane is used for de-encapsulating and parsing the upper-layer application message to obtain the N rule-action pairs, so as to determine the target QoS configuration information mapped by the N rule-action pairs, and configuring the target QoS configuration information into the target device to configure the network of the target device.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein sending the upper-layer application message to the forwarding plane comprises:
issuing the upper-layer application message to the forwarding plane by using a state control interface protocol.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, to the forwarding plane of the BRAS, the target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs comprises:
sending, to the forwarding plane of the BRAS by using a state interface protocol, the target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the preset protocol comprises at least one of: a Simple-Control and User Plane Separation Protocol (S-CUSP), a Border Gateway Protocol-Link State (BGP-LS), a Path Computation Entity Protocol (PCEP), and a TR-459 Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP).

11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the BRAS is a forwarding and control plane separated BRAS.

12 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program, when executed by a processor, implementing the operations of the method according to claim 1 .

13 . An electronic device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the processor, when executing the computer program, implementing the operations of the method according to claim 1 .

14 . A network configuration method, comprising following operations performed by a forwarding plane of a Broadband Remote Access System (BRAS):
receiving an upper-layer application message sent by a control plane of the BRAS; parsing the upper-layer application message to obtain N rule-action pairs encapsulated in the upper-layer application message, wherein the N rule-action pairs represent network configuration rules and network configuration actions corresponding to Quality of Service (Qos) configuration information, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1; determining target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-action pairs; and configuring the target QoS configuration information into a target device to configure a network of the target device.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein configuring the target QoS configuration information into the target device to configure the network of the target device comprises:
configuring the rule-action pairs supported by the target device into the target device.

16 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein configuring the target QoS configuration information into the target device to configure the network of the target device comprises:
ignoring the rule-action pairs not supported by the target device.

17 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein determining target QoS configuration information mapped with the N rule-actio

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Huang Guangping
• Chen Yong

Classifications

• H04L41/5003

  Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS · CPC title

• H04L41/0893

  Assignment of logical groups to network elements · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• H04L41/5051

  Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time · CPC title

• H04L41/0803 Primary

  Configuration setting · CPC title