Network power and performance service level agreements

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025293955-A1
Application number	US-202418606154-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 15, 2024
Priority date	Mar 15, 2024
Publication date	Sep 18, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information handling system stores a service level agreement for an application. The system collects data associated with a network. The data includes a power consumption of an access point of the network. Based on the collected data and the service level agreement of the application, the system determines whether the application is a candidate for migration. In response to the application being a candidate for migration, the system provides a transmit power level increase request to the access point. After the transmit power level increase request is provided, the system provides the application to a remote compute device of the network via the access point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information handling system comprising:
a memory to store a service level agreement for an application; and a processor to communicate with the memory, the processor to:
collect data associated with a network, wherein the data includes a power consumption of an access point of the network;
based on the collected data and the service level agreement of the application, determine whether the application is a candidate for migration;
in response to the application being a candidate for migration, provide a transmit power level increase request to the access point; and
after the transmit power level increase request is provided, provide the application to a remote compute device of the network via the access point.

2 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein prior to the collection of the data, the processor to:
enable a simple network management protocol agent, wherein the simple network management protocol allows the processor to communicate with the access point; and discovery, via the simple network management protocol, the access point and the remote compute device in the network.

3 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further to:
determine a proper object identifier for the data of the access point; and provide a data query to the access point to collect the data, wherein the data query includes the proper object identifier.

4 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the data further includes a latency of the network, resources available in the network, and an overall power consumption of the network.

5 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the data associated with the network is collected via a remote monitoring device, wherein the remote monitoring device is configured to communicate with the information handling system and with the access point.

6 . The information handling system of claim 2 , wherein the simple network management protocol agent is a containerized service capable of being executed in the access point.

7 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the service level agreement includes a power and performance requirement for the application.

8 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the service level agreement includes a latency level, a performance level, a power consumption level, a carbon footprint level, a reliability level, and an efficiency level.

9 . A method comprising:
storing, by a processor of an information handling system, a service level agreement for an application in a memory of the information handling system; collecting data associated with a network, wherein the data includes a power consumption of an access point of the network; based on the collected data and the service level agreement of the application, determining whether the application is a candidate for migration; in response to the application being a candidate for migration, providing a transmit power level increase request to the access point; and after the transmit power level increase request is provided, providing, by the processor, the application to a remote compute device of the network via the access point.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein prior to the collection of the data, the method further comprises:
enabling a simple network management protocol agent, wherein the simple network management protocol allows the processor to communicate with the access point; and discovering, via the simple network management protocol, the access point and the remote compute device in the network.

11 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining a proper object identifier for the data of the access point; and providing a data query to the access point to collect the data, wherein the data query includes the proper object identifier.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the data further includes a latency of the network, resources available in the network, and an overall power consumption of the network.

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the data associated with the network is collected via a remote monitoring device, wherein the remote monitoring device is configured to communicate with the information handling system and with the access point.

14 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the simple network management protocol agent is a containerized service capable of being executed in the access point.

15 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the service level agreement includes a power and performance requirement for the application.

16 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the service level agreement includes a latency level, a performance level, a power consumption level, a carbon footprint level, a reliability level, and an efficiency level.

17 . An information handling system comprising:
a memory to store a service level agreement for an application; and a processor to:
enable a simple network management protocol agent, wherein the simple network management protocol allows the processor to communicate with an access point;
discover, via the simple network management protocol, the access point and a remote compute device in a network;
determine a proper object identifier for the data of the access point;
provide a data query to the access point to collect data associated with a network, wherein the data query includes the proper object identifier;
collect the data associated with the network, wherein the data includes a power consumption of the access point of the network;
based on the collected data and the service level agreement of the application, determine whether the application is a candidate for migration;
if the application is a candidate for migration, then provide a transmit power level increase request to the access point; and
after the transmit power level increase request is provided, provide the application to a remote compute device of the network via the access point.

18 . The information handling system of claim 17 , wherein the simple network management protocol agent is a containerized service capable of being executed in the access point.

19 . The information handling system of claim 17 , wherein the data further includes a latency of the network, resources available in the network, and an overall power consumption of the network.

20 . The information handling system of claim 17 , wherein the service level agreement includes a power and performance requirement for the application.

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Khosrowpour Farzad
• Markow Mitchell

Classifications

• H04L41/0213

  Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP] · CPC title

• H04L43/08

  Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters · CPC title

• H04L41/5009

  Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF] · CPC title

• H04L41/046

  comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor · CPC title

• H04L41/5019 Primary

  Ensuring fulfilment of SLA · CPC title