Rakuten Symphony, Inc.

Prasaanth Gowravalli

Virendra Reddy

A method and system for providing high availability of Fault Management (FM) microservice (MS) and Performance Management (PM) MS functionalities in a Radio Access Network (RAN) Network Function (NF). The method includes: determining whether there is an availability issue in a first microservice (MS), the first MS being one of an FM MS and a PM MS; based on determining that there is the availability issue, providing performance or event data, reported by at least one other MS of the NF for the first MS, to a second MS, the second MS being the other of the FM MS and the PM MS; and processing, by the second MS, the data and reporting, from the second MS to a northbound management system (NBMS), the processed data.

High availability of performance management and fault management microservices

Provided are a method and system for handling northbound fault event reporting for the FM MS. The method, may be performed by at least one processor for reporting data to a northbound management system (NBMS), the method including: receiving, by a fault reporting microservice (FR MS) from an Fault Management microservice (FM MS) of a first Radio Access Network (RAN) Network Function (NF), first data comprising fault event data, the FR MS being a host level MS; and reporting, from the FR MS to the NBMS, the first data.

Optimal fault management reporting via host level northbound fault reporting agent

Provided are a method, computer readable medium, and system for reporting data to a Northbound Management System (NBMS) via a Network Function (NF) level Northbound Fault reporting Microservice (MS) in an NF of a Radio Access Network (RAN). The method includes: receiving, by a Fault Management (FM) MS from at least one other MS of the NF, events data; processing, by the FM MS, the events data; obtaining, by the Fault reporting MS, the processed data; and reporting, from the Fault reporting MS to the NBMS, the processed data.

Optimal fault management reporting via NF level northbound fault reporting agent

A method for reporting data to a Northbound Management System (NBMS) via a Network Function (NF) level northbound Stats reporting microservice (MS) in an NF of a Radio Access Network (RAN), the method including receiving, by a Performance Management (PM) MS from at least one other MS of the NF, performance data for the PM MS; processing, by the PM MS, the received performance data; obtaining, by the Stats reporting MS, the processed performance data; and reporting, from the Stats reporting MS to the NBMS, the processed performance data.

Optimal performance management reporting via NF level northbound performance reporting agent

A method for reporting data to a Northbound Management System (NBMS) via a Network Function (NF) level Northbound FCAPS Reporting Microservice (MS) in an NF of a Radio Access Network (RAN), the method including receiving, by a first microservice (MS) from at least one other MS of the NF, data, the first MS being one of a Fault Management (FM) MS and a Performance Management (PM) MS and the data comprising performance data for the PM MS or event data for the FM MS; processing, by the first MS, the received data; obtaining, by the FCAPS Reporting MS, the processed data; and reporting, from the FCAPS Reporting MS to the NBMS, the processed data.

Optimal fault and performance management reporting via NF level northbound reporting agent

Provided are a method and system for handling FCAPS reporting for the FM MS and PM MS. The method may be performed by at least one processor, for reporting data to a northbound management system (NBMS), the method including: receiving, by a FCAPS reporting microservice (FCAPSR MS) from an Fault Management microservice (FM MS) of a first Radio Access Network (RAN) Network Function (NF), first data comprising fault event data, the FCAPSR MS being a host level MS; receiving, by the FCAPSR MS from an Performance Management microservice (PM MS) of the first RAN NF, second data comprising performance data; and reporting, from the FCAPSR MS to the NBMS, at least one of the first data and the second data.

Optimal FCAPS reporting via host level northbound reporting agent

A method and system for load balancing of a Fault Management (FM) microservice (MS) and a Performance Management (PM) MS in a Network Function (NF) are provided. The method includes: determining whether there is a load issue in a first microservice (MS), the first MS being one of the FM and the PM MS; based on determining that there is the load issue, providing data, reported by at least one other MS for the first MS, to a second MS, the second MS being the other of the FM, and PM MS; and processing, by the second MS, the data and reporting, from the second MS to a northbound management system (NBMS), the processed data, wherein the FM MS is configured to receive the event data from the at least one MS, and the PM MS is configured to receive the performance data from the at least one MS.

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Prasaanth Gowravalli