| CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) | 19 Claims |
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1. A management service producer within a network node of a communication network, the management service producer comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
receive a request from a consumer for performance measurement monitoring, wherein the request from the consumer includes a monitoring granularity period to be used during the performance measurement monitoring and wherein a cumulative counter is used to accumulate a performance measurement value during the monitoring granularity period;
transmit a monitoring request to a network function to monitor performance measurements;
receive a response from the network function indicating whether the performance measurement monitoring will be performed for the consumer; and
transmit a response to the consumer based on the response from the network function,
wherein the performance measurement value in the cumulative counter is initialized during the monitoring granularity period.
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