Method, apparatus and system for controlling self-optimization switch

• US 10,305,727 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2011
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Wei, Zou, Lan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nickerson, Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shah, Mehulkumar J
• Application Number:
  US13/237,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20120009912A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,807 Days
• Field of Search: 709223, 709221, 712 15, 713100, 455418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a self-optimization switch. By using technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, enabling and disabling of self-optimization can be controlled, and a state of the self-optimization switch can be obtained. A technical solution provided in embodiments of the present invention is as follows: A method for controlling a self-optimization switch includes: obtaining a target state of a self-optimization switch; and sending a setting command that includes the target state to a managed unit, where the setting command instructs the managed unit to change the state of the self-optimization switch to the target state.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a self-optimization function, comprising:

utilizing a communication network which comprises a managing unit and a managed unit, wherein the self-optimization function comprises anyone of;

handover self-optimization, load balancing self-optimization, interference control self-optimization, capacity and coverage self-optimization, RACH (random access channel) self-optimization, or energy saving self-optimization, wherein the method is carried out by the managing unit, comprising;

obtaining a target state of a switch attribute, wherein the target state of the switch attribute is either an ON state or OFF state, and the target state of the switch attribute is utilized by the managing unit to indicate whether the self-optimization function in the managed unit should be enabled or disabled, wherein the switch attribute is an attribute used for switching on or switching off anyone of the self-optimization functions in the managed unit; and

sending a setting command which comprises the target state of the switch attribute to the managed unit, wherein the setting command instructs the managed unit to set a state of the switch attribute to correspond to the received target state of the switch attribute to enable or disable the self-optimization function of the managed unit,

wherein a format of the setting command comprises;

setSoFuncSwitch(ctrlObjInfomation,optimizationTypeSwitchList), where, the ctrlObjInfomation portion represents the managed unit providing the self-optimization function, the optimizationTypeSwitchList portion is a list of switch parameters, and the list of switch parameters comprises a type of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, and the target state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the sending a setting command that comprises the target state to the managed unit, the method further comprises:

obtaining a current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, the current state is either ON or OFF.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining a current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function comprises:

sending a query command to the managed unit, wherein the query command is an instruction for obtaining the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function; and

receiving the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function returned from the managed unit.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the sending a setting command that comprises the target state of the switch attribute to the managed unit, the method further comprises:

receiving a setting result returned from the managed unit.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the query command comprises information about the managed unit and a list of switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function types owned by the managed unit, wherein each element in the list indicates a type of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function supported by the managed unit.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the receiving the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function returned from the managed unit comprises:

receiving the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function that the managed unit returns through a list of current state information of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function supported by the managed unit, wherein each element in the list is the managed unit and the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function supported by the managed unit and a list of current state values of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function.

7. An apparatus to control a self optimization function supported in a communication network, wherein the communication network includes the apparatus and a managed unit, the apparatus comprising:

a processor, configured to

obtain a target state of a switch attribute, wherein the target state of the switch attribute is either an ON state or OFF state, and the target state of the switch attribute is utilized by the managing unit to indicate whether the self-optimization function in the managed unit should be enabled or disabled, wherein;

the self-optimization function comprises anyone of;

handover self-optimization, load balancing self-optimization, interference control self-optimization, capacity and coverage self-optimization, RACH (random access channel) self-optimization, or energy saving self-optimization, wherein the method is carried out by the managing unit,

the switch attribute is an attribute used for switching on or switching off anyone of the self-optimization functions in the managed unit; and

send a setting command which comprises the target state of the switch attribute to the managed unit, wherein the setting command instructs the managed unit to set a state of the switch attribute to correspond to the received target state of the switch attribute to enable or disable the self-optimization function of the managed unit, wherein a format of the setting command comprises;

setSoFuncSwitch(ctrlObjInfomation,optimizationTypeSwitchList), where, the ctrlObjInfomation portion represents the managed unit providing the self-optimization function, the optimizationTypeSwitchList portion is a list of switch parameters, and the list of switch parameters comprises a type of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, and the target state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function; and

a memory coupled with the processor.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to obtain a current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, the current state is either ON or OFF.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to send a query command to the managed unit, wherein the query command is an instruction for obtaining the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function;

and

receive the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function returned from the managed unit.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to receive a setting result returned from the managed unit.

11. An apparatus applicable to a communication network supporting a self-optimization function, the communication network includes the apparatus and a managing unit, and the apparatus comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a setting command that is sent by the managing unit and the setting command comprises a target state of a switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function supported by the managed unit, wherein a format of the setting command comprises;

setSoFuncSwitch(ctrlObjInfomation,optimizationTypeSwitchList), where, the ctrlObjInfomation portion represents the managed unit providing the self-optimization function, the optimizationTypeSwitchList portion is a list of switch parameters, and the list of switch parameters comprises a type of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, and the target state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function, and wherein;

the self-optimization function comprises anyone of;

handover self-optimization, load balancing self-optimization, interference control self-optimization, capacity and coverage self-optimization, RACH (random access channel) self-optimization, or energy saving self-optimization, wherein the method is carried out by the managing unit,

the target state of the switch attribute is either an ON state or OFF state, and the target state of the switch attribute is utilized by the managing unit to indicate whether the self-optimization function in the managed unit should be enabled or disabled, wherein the switch attribute is an attribute used for switching on or switching off anyone of the self-optimization functions in the managed unit; and

a processor, configured to change a state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function to the target state of the switch attribute according to the setting command.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, the receiver is further configured to receive a query command sent by the managing unit;

the processor is further configured to obtain a current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function according to the query command, the current state being either ON or OFF; and

return the current state of the switch attribute corresponding to the self-optimization function to the managing unit.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:

the processor is further configured to return a setting result to the managing unit.