RESTORING VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION (VNF) PERFORMANCE VIA VNF RESET OF LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210255928A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17156966

    申请日:2021-01-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques for identifying and remedying performance issues of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) are discussed. An example system includes processor(s) configured to: process VNF Performance Measurement (PM) data received from a network Element Manager (EM) for a VNF; determine whether the VNF has a negative performance issue based on the VNF PM data; request that the EM create a Virtualization Resource (VR) PM job associated with a VR of the VNF when the VNF has the negative performance issue; process VR PM data received from the EM; determine whether to restart the VNF based on the VR PM data and the VNF PM data; and request a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) to restart the VNF based on a determination to restart the VR.

    Operations and notifications for performance management of 5G networks and network slicing

    公开(公告)号:US11051195B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16396312

    申请日:2019-04-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Yizhi Yao Joey Chou

    Abstract: An apparatus of a management service producer comprises one or more processors to create a measurement job for one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks by receiving a CreateMeasurementJob operation request for creating a measurement job for the one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks from a consumer, checking if one or more new measurement types need to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs, requesting the NFs or the management service producer of the constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs to collect the performance data when one or more new measurements types are to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs. The management service producer allows the consumer to choose the reporting method from performance data file reporting and performance data streaming for the collected performance data in the CreateMeasurementJob operation request.

    Performance monitoring techniques for virtualized resources

    公开(公告)号:US11044142B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US16060912

    申请日:2016-10-01

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Inventor: Joey Chou

    Abstract: Performance monitoring techniques for virtualized resources are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise processing circuitry and computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions for execution by the processing circuitry to identify a virtualized network function (VNF)-related virtualized resource (VR) performance threshold for one or more VRs supporting a VNF used to implement a virtualized network element in a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, determine whether the VNF-related VR performance threshold has been crossed based on received VNF-related VR performance data, and in response to a determination that the VNF-related VR performance threshold has been crossed, send a VNF-related VR performance alarm notification to an element manager (EM). Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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