RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD, SERVER, NETWORK EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20090327455A1
• Filed: 08/21/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2008
• 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: TANG, Lei
• Granted Patent: US 8,631,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• 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: H04L 61/4541 Directories for service discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5237 Interconnection arrangements between ACD systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0062 Provisions for network management

Abstract

A resource configuration method, a server, a network equipment, and a network system are provided. The resource configuration method includes performing a resource configuration on a network equipment according to a resource requirement of the network equipment and updated resource configuration information. The resource configuration information includes resource registration information reported by each of network equipments in a network. By implementing the present invention, the number of lookups for the resources is reduced and the process thereof is shortened, thereby achieving an effective resource allocation. In the case that an update frequency is fast enough, a search for resources is realized by one lookup. With such dynamic resource configuration information, the resource allocation is performed quickly and the waste of processing capacity of the server is avoided effectively.

Claims

1. A resource configuration method, comprising:

performing a resource configuration on a network equipment according to a resource requirement request of the network equipment and updated resource configuration information, wherein the resource configuration information comprises resource registration information reported by each of network equipments in a network.

2. The resource configuration method according to claim 1 further comprising:

before performing the resource configuration on the network equipment, automatically updating the resource configuration information of a server itself according to the resource registration information reported by each of the network equipments in the network.

3. The resource configuration method according to claim 2, further comprising receiving the resource registration information reported by each of the network equipments in the network when one of the followings occurs:

a change of the resources contained in the network equipment;

a reporting period or time point for the resource registration information set in the network equipment being reached; and

requiring the network equipment to report a request of a resource possession condition of the network equipment.

4. The resource configuration method according to claim 3, before the automatically updating the resource configuration information of the network equipment, the method further comprising:

judging whether the received resource registration information is contained in the current resource configuration information or not; and

updating the resource configuration information of the network equipment if the received resource registration information is not contained in the current resource configuration information.

5. The resource configuration method according to claim 1, the performing the resource configuration on the network equipment according to the resource requirement request of the network equipment and the updated resource configuration information comprising:

looking up the currently stored updated resource configuration information to determine whether a network equipment in the network possesses resources of the request according to a received resource requirement request sent by a first network equipment; and

initiating to the network equipment a configuration control message that the resources need to be sent to the first network equipment if the network equipment possessing the resources of the request exists in the network; and

sending a request failed message to the first network equipment if the network equipment possessing the resources of the request does not exist in the network.

6. The resource configuration method according to claim 1, wherein the resource registration information comprises a resource type, a resource availability, and an equipment ID of a network equipment containing the resources.

7. The resource configuration method according to claim 5, the initiating to the network equipment the configuration control message that the resources need to be sent to the first network equipment if the network equipment possessing the resources of the request exists in the network further comprising:

marking an availability of the resources of the network equipment to indicate that the resources are occupied.

8. The resource configuration method according to claim 5, before the looking up the currently stored resource configuration information to determine whether any network equipment possessing the resources of the request exists in the network, the method further comprising:

sending a resource updating request to each of the network equipments in the network to cause each of the network equipments to report the request of the resource possession condition;

receiving the resource registration information reported by each of the network equipments according to the resource updating request; and

updating the currently stored resource configuration information according to the resource registration information reported by each of the network equipments.

9. A server, comprising:

a resource update unit, adapted to update resource configuration information of the server according to resource registration information reported by each of network equipments in a network; and

a configuration control unit, adapted to perform a resource configuration on a network equipment according to a resource requirement request of the network equipment and the resource configuration information updated by the resource update unit.

10. The server according to claim 9, further comprising:

a first receiving unit, adapted to receive resource registration information reported by the network equipment; and

a first judgment unit, adapted to judge whether the resource registration information received by the receiving unit is contained in currently stored resource configuration information or not;

wherein the resource update unit automatically updates the resource configuration information of the server according to the resource registration information reported by the network equipment upon receiving a negative result output by the first judgment unit.

11. The server according to claim 9, wherein the configuration control unit comprises:

a second receiving unit, adapted to receive a resource requirement request sent by a first network equipment;

a lookup unit, adapted to look up currently stored resource configuration information to determine whether any network equipment in the network possesses the resources of the request according to the resource requirement request received by the second receiving unit; and

a sending unit, adapted to initiate to a network equipment a configuration control message that the resources need to be sent to the first network equipment if the network includes the network equipment having the resources of the request;

if the network does not include includes the network equipment having the resources of the request, send a request failed message to the first network equipment.

12. The server according to claim 9, wherein the configuration control unit further comprises:

a marking unit, adapted to initiate to the network equipment a configuration control message that the resources need to be sent to the first network equipment and mark an availability of the resources of the network equipment after the lookup unit finds that the network equipment having the resources of the request exists in the network, wherein the mark indicates that the resources are occupied.

13. A network equipment, comprising:

a detection unit, adapted to detect whether a triggering condition for reporting resource registration information is reached or not; and

a sending unit, adapted to report the resource registration information of the network equipment to a server when the triggering condition is reached.

14. The network equipment according to claim 13, the detection unit further comprising at least one of the following units:

a first detection unit, adapted to detect whether the resources contained in the network equipment change or not, and notify the sending unit to report the resource registration information of the network equipment to the server when the resources contained in the equipment change; and

a second detection unit, adapted to detect whether a reporting period or time point for the resource registration information set in the network equipment is reached or not, and notify the sending unit to report the resource registration information of the network equipment to the server when the reporting period or time point for the resource registration information set in the equipment is reached; and

a third detection unit, adapted to detect whether the network equipment receives a request that requires the network equipment to report a resource possession condition thereof, and notify the sending unit to report the resource registration information of the network equipment to the server when the network equipment receives the request.