Wipro Limited

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Swaminathan Seetharaman

Venkata Subramanian Jayaraman

Sudipta Ghosh

Ravi Kumar Emani

Kumar Ramadoss

Krishna Moorthy Manoharan

Ramesh Madhavan

Madhavan Kalyanaraman

Yves Beauville

Vidya Raghunathan

Ranjitha Barike Raghava

Dhebeha Jayakumar

Lakshmi Eswaran

Ramya Ravichandran

Mukesh Babu Palavalasa

Dhebeha Mj

Vignesh Karunakaran

Priyadharshini B

Reshmasree Chamarthi

Ramesh Nadhavan

A network node may transmit a configuration message to at least one network device of a plurality of network devices, the configuration message including updated configuration information for the at least one network device, determine whether to update a network inventory system based on a response to the configuration message, and update a record included in the network inventory system associated with the at least one network device based on results of the determination, the updating including updating the record with the updated configuration information.

Mechanism of obtaining up-to-date network inventory reliably and optimally

A method and system for effective service fulfillment in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes determining utilization of each of a plurality of resources for each of a plurality of network slice instances. The method further includes determining a service allocation schedule and a service resource utilization across one or more service classes and one or more resource classes for each of the plurality of resources; determining at least one of a set of possible actions required to be performed in at least one of the plurality of resources, a plurality of services, and the plurality of network slice instances based on a consolidation plan; assessing an impact of each of the set of possible actions based on a plurality of factors; and triggering a relevant network function(s) to perform at least one of the set of determined possible actions based on the assessed impact.

Method and system for effective service fulfillment in communication networks

A method and system for determining and resolving network issues impacting application performance in multi-domain networks is disclosed. The method includes obtaining at least one of health and performance data associated with an application and one or more alerts related to fault and/or performance issues associated with the application. The method further includes determining at least one of network faults and performance issues that influence at least one of fault and/or performance issues associated with the application. The method further includes determining one or more underlying network problems that impact performance of the application. The method further includes determining at least one appropriate resolution action to address the one or more underlying network problems, implementing the at least one appropriate resolution action; monitoring an effectiveness of the implementation of the at least one appropriate resolution action; and adapting at least one of rules, parameters, and thresholds.

System and method for effective determination and resolution of network issues impacting application performance in multi-domain networks

A method and system for adaptive determination of network slice configuration and resource requirement is disclosed. The method includes creating a service requirement set based on a service request. The method further includes determining enhancements and adjustments to be done in the service requirement set based on a plurality of user entitlements corresponding to the user associated with the service request. The method further includes generating an updated service requirement set based on the enhancements and adjustments applied on the service requirement set. The method further includes determining a network slice template hierarchy based on the updated service requirement set. The method further includes determining a resource requirement corresponding to each of the plurality of network sub-nets based on the updated service requirement set, the plurality of user entitlements, and dynamic network context.

Method, system, and device for adaptive determination of network slice configuration and resource requirements

A method and system for maintenance of network slice templates for slice orchestration is disclosed. The method includes extracting a plurality of parameters from a template data within a template request message and determining at least one network slice template from a plurality of templates, based on comparison of the plurality of parameters with parameters associated with the plurality of templates. The method further includes receiving performance feedback for each of the at least one network slice template based on usage of the at least one network slice template and determining modifications required to be performed on the at least one network slice template, based on the performance feedback. The method includes adapting the at least one network slice template based on the determined modifications.

System and method of maintenance of network slice templates for slice orchestration

This disclosure relates to method and system for performing effective orchestration of cognitive functions (CFs) in a distributed heterogeneous communication network. In one embodiment, the method may include determining a fault or a performance issue and associated causes, related to a set of network slices in the distributed heterogeneous communication network or a set of services across the set of network slices, using CFs associated with each of the set of services or with each of the set of network slices. The method may further include determining possible resolutions for the fault or the performance issue based on the associated causes, identifying a resolution by evaluating each of the possible resolutions for at least one of a suitability to or an impact on the set of services or the set of network slices, and implementing the resolution on one or more affected network segments of the set of network slices.

Method and system for performing effective orchestration of cognitive functions in distributed heterogeneous communication network

A technique is provided for adaptively performing service function chaining based on network context. The technique includes receiving a request comprising a flexible SFC template (FST) for provisioning an SFC of a plurality of service functions (SFs). A service function path (SFP) is determined responsive to receipt of data packets corresponding to a pre-defined flow to be transmitted over the network. Monitoring of a pre-defined plurality of parameters associated with the SFP and a network context is performed after implementing the SFP. Based on the monitoring of the pre-defined plurality of parameters and SFP modification criteria, a requirement for modifying the SFP is identified. Responsive to the identification, the SFP is modified and the performance of the modified SFP is monitored based on one or more of the plurality of parameters, a network context after modifying the SFP, and a pre-defined plurality of service performance thresholds.

Method and system for adaptive and context-aware service function chaining in communication networks

A method and system for template-based dynamic network slicing is disclosed. The method includes creating a service requirement set associated with a service request based on a plurality of characteristics of the service request. The method includes identifying a network slice template hierarchy based on the service requirement set and selecting one of reusing one of at least one of existing network slice instance and creating a new network slice instance. The method includes instantiating a service associated with the service request using one of the at least one of existing network slice instances and the new network slice instance. The method further includes monitoring the service and one of the at least one of existing network slice instances and the new network slice instance. The method includes performing adaptation of at least one thresholds and at least one factor.

Method and system of template-based dynamic network slicing

This disclosure relates to methods and systems for effective data collection, aggregation, and analysis in a distributed heterogeneous communication network for effective fault detection or performance anomaly detection. In one embodiment, the method may include determining impact characteristics with respect to a network slice or a service in the distributed heterogeneous communication network. The method may further include determining one or more collection nodes, one or more aggregation nodes, and one or more analysis nodes within the distributed heterogeneous communication network based on the impact characteristics. The method may further include activating the one or more collection nodes for collecting data, the one or more aggregation nodes for aggregating the collected data, and the one or more analysis nodes for analyzing the aggregated data. The impact characteristics may include at least one of: user characteristics, service characteristics, slice characteristics, network characteristics, or performance characteristics.

Method and system for effective data collection, aggregation, and analysis in distributed heterogeneous communication network

A method for providing lawful interception information for an Internet of Things network (IoT Network) is provided. The method is performed by a topology of probes and comprises: receiving, through an interface, a request for information about a lawful interception target, the request including a specification for the information to be tracked and reported; generating a hierarchy of information elements based on the specification; determining a set of data sources for providing the requested information according to the hierarchy of information elements; determining a hierarchy of probes based on the set of the data sources; configuring the topology of probes based on a set of configurations; activating LI operation in the topology of probes; performing LI operation by the topology of probes; verifying effectiveness of reporting conforming to reporting requirements and taking corrective action; and updating learning data in the historical database at the end of LI operation.

Systems and methods for lawful interception of electronic information for internet of things

A method and device for provisioning collective perception in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a perception data from a plurality of communication entities in the communication network upon satisfaction of at least one of predefined criteria. The method further includes assimilating the perception data in a global collective experience record table, based on at least one perception data category associated with the predefined criteria. The method includes processing the perception data associated with each of the at least one perception data category to create composite perception information based on entries in the global collective experience record table. The method further includes determining perception distribution information to be shared with at least one communication entity from the plurality of communication entities, based on the composite perception information. The method includes transmitting the perception distribution information to the at least one communication entity, in response to determining.

Method and device for provisioning collective perception in communication networks

A method and system for optimizing SFPs associated with common service functions is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one proposed modification to a target SFP. The method further includes determining at least one associated SFP impacted. The method includes determining at least one impact on each of the at least one associated SFP. The method includes optimizing the at least one impact on each of the at least one associated SFP to generate an optimized set of impacts. The method includes determining at least one action associated with each impact in the optimized set of impacts. The method includes optimizing the at least one action associated with each impact in the optimized set of impacts to generate an optimized set of actions. The method includes reconfiguring the target SFP based on a proposed modification and triggering, for one or more associated SFPs, an associated optimized set of actions.

Method and system for optimizing service function paths associated with common service functions

This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for minimizing privacy intrusion during internet of things lawful interception. In one embodiment, a topology of probes system for providing lawful interception information for an internet of things network is provided. The topology of probes system may comprise a super-probe connected to a lawful interception gateway by a set of LI-interfaces and a hierarchy of probes connected to the super-probe. Further, the super-probe and the hierarchy-of-probes may be configured to perform LI operation according to one or more privacy requirement settings and to provide lawful interception information collected by the LI operation. Additionally, the privacy requirement settings may comprise rules that govern at least one of: content-based data exposure, prevention of access of information by predetermined users, and obfuscation of predetermined information.

Systems and methods for minimizing privacy intrusion during internet of things lawful interception

The present disclosure provides method and system for dynamically adapting privacy and security for IoT communication. The method determines allowance of pre-engagement communication between communicating local entity (CLE) and communicating remote entity (CRE) based on perception information formed for the CRE. The method determines session filters to be applied during pre-engagement communication to identify violations. Further, if interest level for the pre-engagement communication is greater than a predefined threshold, engagement communication is established between the CRE and CLE. During the engagement communication, engagement filters are determined and applied to identify any violations. Further, during the engagement communication, one or more privacy and security related events are identified and actions are also identified to handle the one or more privacy and security related events, for dynamically adapting privacy and security for IoT communication. The actions include terminating the engagement communication, updating perceptions, refining filters and continuing engagement communication.

System and method for providing dynamic, adaptive and composite privacy and security for IoT communication

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for optimizing usage of network resources in the communication network. In an embodiment, a session is initiated by a user with a plurality of media servers. The usage of the network resources is optimized by a routing server which monitors session characteristics of an on-going session, user characteristics, media server characteristics and network conditions, wherein the on-going session is hosted by a plurality of session handling media servers from the plurality of media servers in the communication network. The routing server further compares the monitored data with corresponding threshold values and identifies at least one media server which violates the pre-defined threshold. The routing server further identifies one or more alternate media servers based on the media server characteristics and transfer the connectivity of one or more users to the one or more alternate media servers without disconnecting the on-going session.

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