Dynamic network traffic management in response to non-network conditions input

• US 9,100,321 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Arteaga, Carlos M., Currie, B. Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang B
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASTANEYRA, RICARDO H
• Application Number:
  US13/687,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20140146672A1
• Time in Patent Office: 979 Days
• Field of Search: 370/229, 370/230, 370/231, 370/232, 370/235, 370/252, 370/241, 370/395.21, 370/395.41, 370/395.42, 370/395.43, 370/395.52, 370/400
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/20 Traffic policing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2408 for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/824 Applicable to portable or mobile terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

An appropriate quality of service policy is automatically selected as a function of network and business conditions. A current loading condition of an internet protocol network of devices operating, a current condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices, and a current business condition that indicates a cost or availability of a resource used in device operation remotely controlled via data packet communications, are each determined under current network control and routing rules. If the resource cost or availability exceeds a specified market condition constraint, a special resource control rule is automatically selected to preempt a current network or routing rule to cause one or more of the internet protocol devices to reduce an amount of the resource used or distributed by the first internet protocol device while operating within the current determined internet protocol network loading and radio frequency communications conditions.

Claims

1. A method for automatically selecting and applying a resource control rule as a function of an appropriate quality of service policy and network and business conditions, the method comprising:

determining a current latency of packets being transmitted through a plurality of devices of an internet protocol network operating under a current network control rule and a current network routing rule;

determining a current condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices of the plurality of devices under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule;

determining a current business condition that indicates a cost or availability of a resource used in operation of a first of the internet protocol network devices remotely controlled via IP data packet communications under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule; and

in response to determining that the current business condition indicates that the resource cost or availability exceeds a specified market condition constraint, a processing unit automatically selecting and implementing a special resource control rule preempting the current network control rule and the current network routing rule within the internet protocol network, thereby causing the first of the internet protocol devices to cycle off for a temporary period of time, and virtually mapping a new endpoint connection for data packet flow between second and third internet protocol devices of the plurality of internet protocol devices; and

wherein the implementing the special resource control rule reduces an amount of the resource used by the network of internet protocol devices while transmitting packets at the determined latency and at the determined condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices as a function of meeting a quality of services policy of the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing unit automatically selects the special resource control rule to reduce the use, distribution or allocation of the resource among the plurality of internet protocol devices, while continuing to maintain a minimum system performance as reflected by the determined current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network and the determined current condition of the radio frequency communications between the wireless devices of the plurality of devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing unit automatically selects the special resource control rule to assure a required quality of service by the radio frequency devices in response to a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of the radio frequency devices that are different from a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of other internet protocol devices in the network.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically tuning configuration adjustments of the internet protocol network plurality of devices by repeating in a feedback loop the steps of determining the current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network, determining the current condition of the radio frequency communications, the determining the current business condition that indicates the cost or availability of the resource, and the processing unit automatically selecting and applying the special resource control rule that preempts the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein the step of the processing unit automatically implementing the special resource control rule comprises suppressing data packet flow through an existing endpoint connection between fourth and fifth internet protocol devices of the plurality of internet protocol devices, while the special resource control rule is preempting the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to determining that the current business condition indicates that the resource cost or availability no longer exceeds the specified market condition constraint, the processing unit automatically ending the preempting of the current network control rule and the current network routing rule within the internet protocol network by the selected special resource control rule, the virtually mapping the new endpoint connection between the second and the third internet protocol devices, and the suppressing the data packet flow through an existing endpoint connection between the fourth and the fifth internet protocol devices.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the resource cost or availability is a utility pricing or generating capacity with respect to electrical energy, water, fuel, or a chemical commodity.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

the first of the internet protocol devices automatically cycling back on at an end of the temporary period of time.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

integrating computer-readable program code into a computer system comprising the processing unit, a computer readable memory and a computer readable hardware storage device, wherein the computer readable program code is embodied on the computer readable hardware storage device and comprises instructions for execution by the processing unit via the computer readable memory that cause the processing unit to automatically select and implement the special resource control rule that preempts the current network control and the current network routing rule within the internet protocol network in response to determining that the current business condition indicates that the resource cost or availability exceeds the specified market condition constraint.

10. A system that automatically selects and applies a resource control rule as a function of an appropriate quality of service policy and network and business conditions, the system comprising:

a processing unit;

a computer readable memory in communication with the processing unit; and

a computer-readable hardware storage device;

wherein the processing unit executes program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory and thereby;

determines a current latency of packets being transmitted through a plurality of devices of an internet protocol network operating under a current network control rule and a current network routing rule;

determines a current condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices of the plurality of devices under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule;

determines a current business condition that indicates a cost or availability of a resource used in operation of a first of the internet protocol network devices remotely controlled via IP data packet communications under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule; and

in response to determining that the current business condition indicates that the resource cost or availability exceeds a specified market condition constraint, automatically selects and implements a special resource control rule that preempts the current network control rule and the current network routing rule within the internet protocol network thereby causing the first of the internet protocol devices to cycle off for a temporary period of time, virtually mapping a new endpoint connection for data packet flow between second and third internet protocol devices of the plurality of internet protocol devices, and reducing an amount of the resource used by the network of internet protocol devices while transmitting packets at the determined latency and at the determined condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices as a function of meeting a quality of services policy of the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing unit executes the program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory, and thereby further automatically selects the special resource control rule to reduce the use, distribution or allocation of the resource among the plurality of internet protocol devices, while continuing to maintain a minimum system performance as reflected by the determined current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network and the determined current condition of the radio frequency communications between the wireless devices of the plurality of devices.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing unit executes the program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory and thereby further selects the special resource control rule to assure a required quality of service by the radio frequency devices in response to a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of the radio frequency devices that are different from a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of other internet protocol devices in the network.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processing unit executes the program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory, and thereby further dynamically tunes configuration adjustments of the internet protocol network plurality of devices by repeating in a feedback loop steps of determining the current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network, determining the current condition of the radio frequency communications, determining the current business condition that indicates the cost or availability of the resource, and automatically selecting and applying the special resource control rule that preempts the current network control rule and the current routing rule.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processing unit executes the program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory and thereby automatically implements the special resource control rule by

suppressing data packet flow through an existing endpoint connection between fourth and fifth internet protocol devices of the plurality of internet protocol devices while the special resource control rule is preempting the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing unit executes the program instructions stored on the computer-readable hardware storage device via the computer readable memory, and thereby further automatically cycles the first of the internet protocol devices back on at an end of the temporary period of time.

16. A computer program product for automatically selecting and applying a resource control rule as a function of an appropriate quality of service policy and network and business conditions, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable hardware storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising instructions for execution by a computer processing unit that cause the computer processing unit to;

determine a current latency of packets being transmitted through a plurality of devices of an internet protocol network operating under a current network control rule and a current network routing rule;

determine a current condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices of the plurality of devices under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule;

determine a current business condition that indicates a cost or availability of a resource used in operation of a first of the internet protocol network devices remotely controlled via IP data packet communications under the current network control rule and the current network routing rule; and

in response to determining that the current business condition indicates that the resource cost or availability exceeds a specified market condition constraint, automatically select and implement a special resource control rule that preempts the current network control rule and the current network routing rule within the internet protocol network, thereby causing the first of the internet protocol devices to cycle off for a temporary period of time, virtually mapping a new endpoint connection for data packet flow between second and third internet protocol devices of the plurality of interact protocol devices, and reducing an amount of the resource used by the network of internet protocol devices while transmitting packets at the determined latency and at the determined condition of radio frequency communications between wireless devices as a function of meeting a quality of services policy of the current network control rule and the current network routing rule.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution by the computer processing unit further cause the computer processing unit to select the special resource control rule to reduce the use, distribution or allocation of the resource among the plurality of internet protocol devices, while continuing to maintain a minimum system performance as reflected by the determined current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network and the determined current condition of the radio frequency communications between the wireless devices of the plurality of devices.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution by the computer processing unit further cause the computer processing unit to select the special resource control rule to assure a required quality of service by the radio frequency devices in response to a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of the radio frequency devices that are different from a determined reliability characteristic and communication protocol of other internet protocol devices in the network.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution by the computer processing unit further cause the computer processing unit to dynamically tune configuration adjustments of the internet protocol network plurality of devices by repeating in a feedback loop steps of determining the current latency of packets being transmitted through the plurality of devices of the internet protocol network, determining the current condition of the radio frequency communications, determining the current business condition that indicates the cost or availability of the resource, and automatically selecting and applying the special resource control rule that preempts the current network control rule and the current routing rule.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the resource cost or availability is a utility pricing or generating capacity with respect to electrical energy, water, fuel, or a chemical commodity;

and

wherein the computer readable program code instructions for execution by the computer processing unit further cause the computer processing unit to automatically cycle the first of the internet protocol devices back on at an end of the temporary period of time.