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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023362053-A1
Application number	US-202118027170-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 31, 2021
Priority date	Sep 29, 2020
Publication date	Nov 9, 2023
Grant date	—

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

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 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 (the 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.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , 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 HQoS 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

3 . 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.

4 . 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.

5 . 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 a-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.

6 . 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.

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:
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.

8 . 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 are used for representing 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.

9 . (canceled)

10 . (canceled)

11 . 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 claims 1 .

12 . 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 claims 1 .

13 . 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 8 .

14 . 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 8 .

15 . The method according to claim 2 , 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).

16 . The method according to claim 4 , 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.

17 . The method according to claim 4 , 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.

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

19 . The method according to claim 6 , 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.

20 . The m

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Huang Guangping
• Chen Yong

Classifications

• H04L41/0803 Primary

  Configuration setting · CPC title

• H04L41/5003

  Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS · CPC title

• H04L41/0893

  Assignment of logical groups to network elements · CPC title

• H04L41/5051

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