CORBA based transmission element management system and method

• US 20030131054A1
• Filed: 12/27/2002
• Published: 07/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Nortel Company Limited (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Sohn, Myoung-Kyu
• Application Number:
  US10/329,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20030131054A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications

Abstract

A Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) based transmission element management system and method thereof. More specifically, generating CORBA objects in respective transmission elements in which commands will be executed when the commands for managing a plurality of transmission elements which are remotely connected are received from a client, and transmits the command to respective transmission elements using the CORBA object, and the result value that the commands are executed by the respective transmission element is reported to the client through the CORBA objects in the respective transmission elements. Also, the present invention collects alarms which are generated in a plurality of transmission elements using a channel for providing a notification service of the CORBA. Therefore, the present invention can process the command from the client without blocking and collect alarm information from the plurality of transmission elements without blocking, so that one EMS can efficiently and stably manage the plurality of transmission elements which are remotely connected.

Claims

1. A Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) based transmission element management system, comprising:

a plurality of transmission elements configured to remotely connect in a CORBA; and

an Element Management System (EMS) generating a CORBA object in at least one of the plurality of transmission elements configured to execute a control command from a client, processing the control command by the CORBA object, and managing each of a plurality of transmission elements.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the EMS includes:

a command processor configured to generate a command processing object, wherein the command processing object is configured to process and execute the control command in at least one of the plurality of transmission elements; and

a message converting process, which is generated in the command processing object, configured to generate a message converting object, wherein the message converting object is configured to convert the control command to a message recognizable by a corresponding transmission element and transmits the message to the corresponding transmission element.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the EMS further includes:

an alarm processor having an alarm receiving object configured to receive alarms generated in the plurality of transmission elements connected remotely through a channel providing a notification service of the CORBA; and

an alarm processing object configured to process the alarms transmitted from the alarm receiving object and reporting the alarms to the client.

4. A Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) based transmission element management method, comprising:

receiving a command from a client;

processing the command from the client using the CORBA in at least one of a plurality of transmission elements in which the command from the client will be executed; and

reporting a command execution result to the client when the command execution result is returned from at least one of the plurality of transmission elements.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method of processing the command further comprises:

generating a command processing object in each of the plurality of transmission elements in which the command will be executed;

transmitting the command from the command processing object to a message conversion process;

converting the command to a message which can be recognized by a corresponding transmission element; and

transmitting the converted message from the message converting process to a corresponding transmission element.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the message converting process is registered in an implementing repository of the CORBA so that the message converting process can be generated corresponding to the command processing objects.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the message converting process automatically stops if there is no transmission request from the command processing object for a predetermined time.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein an asynchronous transmission method is performed between the command processing object and the message converting process.

9. A Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) based transmission element management method, comprising:

generating a command processing CORBA object in each of a plurality of transmission elements in which a request will be executed when the request for managing the plurality of transmission elements is received from a client to a command processor;

transmitting a command information attached to the command processing from the client to the command processing CORBA object;

transmitting the command information from the command processing CORBA object to a message converting process;

transmitting the command information from the message converting process to a corresponding transmission element by converting the command information into a message which can be recognized by the corresponding transmission element; and

reporting to the client when the command execution result value is returned from the corresponding transmission element.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the message converting process is registered in an implementing repository of the CORBA so that it can be generated corresponding to the command processing CORBA objects one to one.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the message converting process automatically stops if there is no transmission request from the command processing CORBA object and corresponding transmission element for a predetermined time.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein an asynchronous transmission method is performed between the command processing object and the message converting process.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

receiving alarms generated in a plurality of transmission elements which are remotely connected through a channel configured to provide a notification service of the CORBA; and

reporting the alarm to the client in the command processing process by processing the received alarm.