Method, device, and system for admission control in metropolitan area network

• US 8,743,686 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2011
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2008
• 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: Zhou, Qian, Zou, Ting, Huang, Fuqing, Chen, Jianqun
• Primary Examiner(s): Masur, Paul H
• Application Number:
  US13/086,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20110188374A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 370/468, 370/477, 370230-236
• US Class Current: 370/232
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2852 Metropolitan area networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/74 measures in reaction to resource unavailability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/745 Reaction in network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/825 Involving tunnels, e.g. MPLS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/827 Aggregation of resource allocation or reservation requests

Abstract

A method comprises converging resource reservation requests from users, wherein the resource reservation requests contain bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission; determining a total bandwidth value comprising a sum of the bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission in the converged resource reservation requests; determining the total bandwidth value is larger than a preset bandwidth threshold of a first transmission path having an identifier (ID) number; and establishing a second transmission path using the identifier (ID) number of the first transmission path distributed to the users, wherein an ID number of the second transmission path is the ID number of the first transmission path and a bandwidth value of the second transmission path is larger than or equal to the total bandwidth value.

Claims

1. A system for admission control in a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), comprising:

a resource manager (RM), configured to converge resource reservation requests from users, determine whether a total bandwidth value in the converged resource reservation requests is larger than a preset bandwidth threshold of a transmission path, and if the total bandwidth value in the converged resource reservation requests is larger than the preset bandwidth threshold of the transmission path, establish a new transmission path using an identifier (ID) number of the transmission path distributed to the users,

wherein a bandwidth value of the new transmission path is larger than the total bandwidth value in the converged resource reservation requests, the resource reservation requests contain bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission, and the total bandwidth value comprises a sum of the bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission in the converged resource reservation requests;

a path manager, configured to be connected to the RM, receive control signals sent by the RM, and configure new network element parameters of the new transmission path according to the control signals; and

an application function module, configured to be connected to the RM, and send the resource reservation requests to the RM through Diameter interfaces according to session service requests received from the users, the session service requests containing the bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission, wherein the resource reservation requests contain the bandwidth values to be occupied for data transmission.

2. The system for admission control in the MAN according to claim 1, wherein the transmission path in the MAN comprises a label switched path (LSP), and the path manager comprises a tunnel manager.