Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Curtis Goedde

Elena Fersman

Joerg Niemoeller

Hongxin Liang

Robert Törnkvist

Calin Curescu

Craig Donovan

Paul Ballman

Ron Hamway

According to the teachings herein, provisioning operations carried out via electronic processing in a communication network () benefit from the use of reordered workflows () having task orderings that are at least partly optimized with respect to task failure probabilities and/or resource-blocking penalties. The reordered workflows () are obtained by optimizing predefined provisioning workflows (). Each predefined workflow () comprises two or more tasks () ordered along one or more task execution paths () in a task tree (), according to a default task ordering that reflects any required inter-task dependencies but, in general, does not reflect any optimization in terms of failure penalties, resource blocking, etc. Among the several advantages provided by the teachings herein, carrying out provisioning operations in accordance with reordered workflows () wastes fewer compute cycles and reduces the needless blocking of network resources in the event of provisioning task failures.

Reordering workflows for network provisioning by using blocking penalty and compounded failure risk values for tasks

A method for and a feedback node capable of making feedback information provided from communication devices accessible to an application server, the feedback information being associated with at least one service provided by the application server, the feedback node comprising a processor and a memory comprising executable code which when executed by the processor causes the feedback node to: receive a second set of instructions from the application server, instructing the feedback node, under which conditions to provide feedback information from at least one of the communication devices to the application server; received feedback information from the at least one communication device, and forward the received feedback information to the application server according the second set of instructions.

Method, nodes and a communication device for handling feedback information

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