METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING NETWORK RESOURCES IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK

• US 20080316938A1
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: SHI, Xin
• Application Number:
  US12/204,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20080316938A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 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 Class Codes: H04L 41/5045 Making service definitions prior to deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

A method for allocating network resources, including: obtaining a current network performance parameter and preset service SLA; selecting service levels corresponding to the current network performance parameter from a preset resource usage strategy according to the current network performance parameter, and selecting service levels which are equal to or higher than the service levels defined in the service SLA from selected service levels; sending the selected service levels to a user terminal; allocating network resources for a user service according to the service level selected by the user terminal. A system and a device for dynamically allocating network resources to the user terminal according to the condition of the network resources, so as to improve the utilization rate of the network resources.

Claims

1. A method for allocating network resources, comprising:

obtaining a current network performance parameter and preset service Service Level Agreement, SLA;

selecting service levels corresponding to the current network performance parameter from a preset resource usage strategy according to the current network performance parameter, and selecting a service level which is equal to or higher than a service level defined in the service SLA from selected service levels and sending to a user terminal; and

allocating network resources for a user service according to the service levels selected by the user terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the current network performance parameter comprises:

a performance parameter of an access device in a cell of the user terminal, a performance parameter of a bearer network and a performance parameter of an application server corresponding to the user service.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining the preset service SLA further comprises:

parsing a user ID from a negotiation request initiated by the user terminal, and obtaining the service SLA corresponding to the user ID.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining the current network performance parameter and the service SLA further comprises:

obtaining the current network performance parameter periodically, and obtaining the service SLA from the preset service SLA when a utilization rate of network is lower than a preset value.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

setting a corresponding price for each service level in the resource usage strategy; and

after allocating network resources for the user service according to the service levels selected by the user terminal further comprising charging for the user service according to the price corresponding to the service level selected by the user terminal.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

selecting, from the selected service levels which are equal to or higher than service levels defined in the service SLA, service levels whose prices are lower than or equal to a price corresponding to the service level in the service SLA.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

setting a time length for each service level in the resource usage strategy; and

after allocating the network resources for the user service according to the service level selected by the user terminal, timing the user service according to the time length corresponding to the service level selected by the user terminal;

when the time is over, using the service level defined in the service SLA to re-allocate the network resources for the user service.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

setting a time length for each service level in the resource usage strategy; and

after allocating the network resources for the user service according to the service level selected by the user terminal, timing the user service according to the time length corresponding to the service level selected by the user terminal;

if a variation of the condition of the network resources exceeds a preset value, after the time is over, selecting service levels corresponding to the network performance parameter from the resource usage strategy and selecting service levels which are equal to or higher than the service level defined in the service SLA.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

if the utilization rate of network resources reaches a preset value, when the time is over, selecting, from the selected service levels which are equal to or higher than the service levels defined in the SLA, service levels whose prices are higher than or equal to the price corresponding to the level of service provided in a previous time period.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

if the utilization rate of network resources reaches a preset value, when the time is over, selecting, from the selected service levels which are equal to or higher than the service levels defined in the SLA, service levels whose prices are higher than or equal to the price corresponding to the level of service provided in a previous time period.

11. A system for allocating network resources, comprising:

a performance collecting device adapted to obtain a current network performance parameter;

a user Service Level Agreement, SLA, database adapted to store a service SLA subscribed by a user with a network service provider;

a strategy database adapted to store a resource usage strategy comprising the network performance parameter and a service level corresponding to the network performance parameter;

a negotiation device adapted to obtain the service SLA and the resource usage strategy from the user SLA database and the strategy database respectively and select, from the resource usage strategy, the service level which is equal to or higher than the service level in the service SLA subscribed by the user with the network service provider according to the current network performance parameter, and then send the service level selected to an application server controller; and

the application server controller adapted to send the service level selected by the negotiation device to a user terminal for negotiating and allocate network resources to the user according to the service level obtained via the negotiation with the user terminal.

12. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 11, wherein the application server controller is further adapted to send the service level which is obtained via the negotiation with the user terminal to the negotiation device;

the negotiation device is adapted to generate a resource configuration command according to the service level which is obtained via the negotiation with the user terminal and send the resource configuration command to the application server controller; and

the application server controller is adapted to allocate network resources for users according to the resource configuration command.

13. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 11, further comprising:

a Business Support System, BSS, adapted to charge for the user service according to the service level negotiated, under the control of the application server controller.

14. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 12, further comprising:

a Business Support System, BSS, adapted to charge for the user service according to the service level negotiated, under the control of the negotiation device.

15. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 11, further comprising:

a performance data database adapted to store the current network performance parameter obtained by the performance collecting device; and

the negotiation device is further adapted to obtain the current network performance parameter from the performance data database.

16. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 12, further comprising:

a performance data database adapted to store the current network performance parameter obtained by the performance collecting device; and

the negotiation device is further adapted to obtain the current network performance parameter from the performance data database.

17. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 13, further comprising:

a performance data database adapted to store the current network performance parameter obtained by the performance collecting device; and

the negotiation device is further adapted to obtain the current network performance parameter from the performance data database.

18. The system for allocating network resources according to claim 14, further comprising:

a performance data database adapted to store the current network performance parameter obtained by the performance collecting device; and

the negotiation device is further adapted to obtain the current network performance parameter from the performance data database.

19. A negotiation device, comprising:

an obtaining module adapted to obtain a current network performance parameter, a service Service Level Agreement, SLA and a resource usage strategy; and

a processing module adapted to select, from the resource usage strategy, a service level which is equal to or higher than a service level in the service SLA subscribed by the user with the network service provider according to the current network performance parameter, and send the selected service level for negotiating with a user terminal about the service level.

20. The negotiation device according to claim 19, wherein,

the processing module is further adapted to generate a resource configuration command according to the service level which is obtained via the negotiation with the user terminal and send the resource configuration command to an application server controller.