Steering of virtualized resources

• US 11,340,943 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2014
• Issued: 05/24/2022
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Morper, Hans-Jochen, Jarschel, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Nicholas R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Roy, Sanjoy K
• Application Number:
  US15/533,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20170329639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,728 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

The invention addresses method, apparatus, system and computer program product for controlling virtualized resources, comprising receiving a request to implement a network service at a network element, looking up key parameters of the network service, selecting at least one compute resource according to the network service, deploying at least one application as required to fulfill the network service, selecting at least one transport resource to interconnect the network element with the at least one application, instructing an access control conductor that a transport access manager has exclusive access to at least part of the network element'"'"'s resources, and instructing the transport access manager to establish a transport path at the network element.

Claims

1. A processor implemented method for controlling virtualized resources, comprising:

receiving a request to implement a network service at a network element;

looking up key parameters of the network service;

selecting at least one compute resource according to the network service;

deploying at least one application as required to fulfill the network service;

selecting at least one transport resource to interconnect the network element with the at least one application;

instructing an access control conductor that a transport access manager has exclusive access to at least part of the network element'"'"'s resources; and

instructing the transport access manager to establish a transport path at the network element.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network functions virtualization orchestrator is a network orchestration part of a software defined networking system.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access control conductor is configured to manage the competitive access of applications or controllers to transport resources of the same network elements.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the compute resources are virtual machines.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transport access manager comprises a software defined networking transport controller.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the transport access manager further comprising an access control conductor configured to manage accessibility of control access to respective network elements.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the request is received from a high level entity, such as operations support system and a business support system.

15. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, said product comprising software code portions for performing the steps of claim 1 when the product is run on the computer.

8. An apparatus for controlling virtualized resources, comprising:

at least one processor, and

at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processor,

wherein

the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform receiving a request to implement a network service at a network element;

looking up parameters of the network service;

selecting at least one compute resource according to the network service;

deploying at least one application as required to fulfill the network service;

selecting at least one transport resource to interconnect the network element with the at least one application;

instructing an access control conductor that a transport access manager has exclusive access to at least part of the network element'"'"'s resources; and

instructing the transport access manager to establish a transport path at the network element.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the network functions virtualization orchestrator is a network orchestration part of a software defined networking system.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the access control conductor is configured to manage the competitive access of applications or controllers to transport resources of the same network elements.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the compute resources are virtual machines.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the transport access manager comprises a software defined networking transport controller.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the transport access manager further comprising an access control conductor configured to manage accessibility of control access to respective network elements.

14. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the request is received from a high level entity, such as operations support system and a business support system.