US 12,126,486 B2
Management model for network equipment performance measurements
Edwin Tse, Montreal (CA); and Robert Petersen, Linköping (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/268,132
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/055260
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/035750, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/763,141, filed on Aug. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0168014 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0213 (2022.01); H04L 41/04 (2022.01); H04L 43/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0213 (2013.01) [H04L 41/04 (2013.01); H04L 43/14 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by equipment operative in a network, of participating in a Network Resource Management (NRM) Performance Monitoring (PM) procedure, characterized by:
maintaining a NRM Information Object Class (IOC) ManagedElement object containing one or more NRM IOC ManagedFunction objects, each ManagedFunction object operative to perform specified measurements by the equipment and report the results;
maintaining a NRM IOC PMControl object including an administrative state attribute set directly by a network management system, that initiates and controls measurements for PM, without use of an intervening Element Management entity, to begin measurements and reset directly by the network management system to suspend or end measurements, and an operational state attribute set by equipment when permissions and access allow measurement and reporting to proceed, and one of a notification target attribute and file location attribute for reporting the results of the specified measurements;
maintaining, for each ManagedFunction object, one or more NRM dataType Measurement objects, each Measurement object including attributes specifying a measurement to be performed and a reporting period;
verifying the availability of resources required to perform the specified measurements and access to the specified reporting mechanism, and indicating such availability and access by setting the operational state attribute of the PMControl object; and
upon a network management system directly setting the administrative state attribute of the PMControl object, and if the operational state attribute of the PMControl object is set, for each Measurement object, performing the specified measurement and assembling the results; and
at the expiration of each reporting period, reporting the results;
whereby the equipment performs measurements in response to the administrative and operational state attributes of the PMControl object, and without a subscription to an Element Management entity or executing measurement jobs initiated and controlled by an Element Management entity.