At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Open Invention Network LLC

Transtech Networks Usa, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Softshield, LLC

Tsong-Ho Wu

Wen-Jui Li

Deh-Phone K Hsing

Bo-Chao Cheng

Leonard L Lu

Jun-Min Liu

Wai Sum Lai

Zosim Kanevsky

Hasan Erkan

Shyhyann Lee

Latha Kant

Yusuf Goksel Goncu

Li-Chuan Sun

Systems and methods for adaptive TCA threshold management are described. A technique can include receiving threshold crossing alert (TCA) data including operational TCA data, determining a TCA prediction trigger based on a current threshold, matching, in response to determining the TCA prediction trigger, the operational TCA data to a pattern from a TCA pattern bank, and calculating a predicted TCA threshold based on the pattern.

AI-enabled adaptive TCA thresholding for SLA assurance

Concepts and technologies directed to network fault originator identification for virtual network infrastructure are disclosed herein. Embodiments can include a control system that is communicatively coupled with network infrastructure. The control system can include a processor and memory that, upon execution, causes the control system to perform operations. The operations can include determining, based on a source ticket, a network fault condition associated with the network infrastructure. The operations can further include identifying, from the source ticket, a trap set and an alarm set that are associated with origination of the network fault condition. The operations can include the control system collecting network event data from the network infrastructure prior to a polling time of a fault reporting schedule; determining that a qualified source ticket should be created; and generating the qualified source ticket based on the network event data.

Network fault originator identification for virtual network infrastructure

Methods and systems associated with a microservice based predictive service level agreement (SLA) impact analytics system that may run on standardized container based virtual computing platform to enable capacity auto-scaling for on-demand, near-real-time resource allocation automatically supporting user data packet forwarding when SLA is potentially impacted to ensure SLA compliance.

Microservice auto-scaling for achieving service level agreements

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-aware virtualized control decision support system ('DSS') for providing quality of experience ('QoE') assurance for Internet protocol ('IP') streaming video services. A QoE assurance DSS can monitor QoE event and context data to be utilized for QoE assurance analytics, measure QoE performance, perform QoE assurance analytics, and determine whether the QoE assurance analytics indicate that the QoE has been degraded, and if so, construct a fault correlation information model to be utilized for root cause analysis to determine a root cause of the QoE being degraded. The QoE assurance DSS also can determine, based upon the fault correlation information model, whether the root cause of the QoE being degraded is due to a capacity reduction, and if so, the QoE assurance DSS can identify a new network resource for capacity reallocation to accommodate a virtual machine migration.

Context-aware virtualized control decision support system for providing quality of experience assurance for internet protocol streaming video services

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to data-driven feedback control systems for an acceptable level of real-time application transaction completion rate in virtualized networks, while maximizing virtualized server utilization. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a network virtualization platform ('NVP') includes a plurality of hardware resources, a virtual machine ('VM'), and a virtual machine monitor (&#x201c;VMM&#x201d;). The VMM can track an execution state of each of a plurality of applications associated with the VM. The VMM can measure a real-time application transaction completion rate of the VM. The VMM can determine whether a trigger condition exists for priority scheduling of real-time applications based upon the real-time application transaction completion rate and a pre-set threshold value. The VMM can, in response to determining that the trigger condition exists, apply a priority control schedule to instruct the VM to perform priority processing of a real-time application over a non-real-time application.

Data-driven feedback control system for real-time application support in virtualized networks

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to an auto-scaling software-defined monitoring ('SDM') platform for software-defined networking ('SDN') service assurance. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDM controller can monitor event data associated with a network event that occurred within a virtualized IP SDN network that is monitored by a virtualized SDM resources platform. The SDM controller can measure, based upon the event data, a quality of service (&#x201c;QoS&#x201d;) performance metric associated with the virtualized SDM resource platform. The SDN controller can determine, based upon the QoS performance metric, whether an auto-scaling operation is to be performed. The auto-scaling operation can include reconfiguring the virtualized SDM resources platform by adding virtual machine capacity for supporting event management tasks either by instantiating a new virtual machine or by migrating an existing virtual machine to a new hardware host.

Auto-scaling software-defined monitoring platform for software-defined networking service assurance

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a realtime dynamic virtual network topology discovery engine to discover a dynamic network topology in virtualized networks in realtime. A processor that executes a network topology discovery engine can obtain network data that can describe elements of a data center and operational state of the elements. Obtaining network data can include obtaining network data from a network topology inventory database and through detecting operational state change events from virtual network components. The processor can construct a network topology model based upon the network data. The network topology model can include an object (representing an element of the data center) and an attribute representing a state of the element. The processor can update the network topology model in realtime. The network topology model and configurations can be stored for root cause analysis of fault events, resource orchestration in SDN networks, and other applications.

Dynamic virtual network topology discovery engine

An IP network topology update system may update IP network topology in near real-time and on-demand with minimum overheads. It identifies likely impact area (e.g., layer 2 or layer 3), objects (e.g., link or node such a device), and timing (e.g., what topology objects located where or when the topology update process should be performed) in the IP Layer 3 network and its underlying SDN Layer 2 network under virtualized networking infrastructure as candidates of impacts for topology update.

Dynamic update of virtual network topology

A service impact event analyzer is used to evaluate service assurance risk in cloud SDN networks. Using data fusion, an alarm subset dataset is generated from a raw trap dataset. Service impact events are identified in the subset dataset. The service impact events are categorized into service impacted event categories, and a model is created for associating the event categories with process function classes. Time durations of the service impact events are computed using correlated secondary alarms from the alarm subset dataset. The service assurance risk is evaluated using the model and the time duration.

Service impact event analyzer for cloud SDN service assurance

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-aware virtualized control decision support system ('DSS') for providing quality of experience ('QoE') assurance for Internet protocol (&#x201c;IP&#x201d;) streaming video services. A QoE assurance DSS can monitor QoE event and context data to be utilized for QoE assurance analytics, measure QoE performance, perform QoE assurance analytics, and determine whether the QoE assurance analytics indicate that the QoE has been degraded, and if so, construct a fault correlation information model to be utilized for root cause analysis to determine a root cause of the QoE being degraded. The QoE assurance DSS also can determine, based upon the fault correlation information model, whether the root cause of the QoE being degraded is due to a capacity reduction, and if so, the QoE assurance DSS can identify a new network resource for capacity reallocation to accommodate a virtual machine migration.

The content-aware application switch and methods thereof intelligently switch client packets to one server among a group of servers in a server farm. The switch uses Layer 7 or application content parsed from a packet to help select the server and to schedule the transmitting of the packet to the server. This enables refined load-balancing and Quality of-Service control tailored to the application being switched. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes maintaining a server load metric for each server in a group of servers; parsing application content from a packet; selecting a destination server from the group of servers, wherein selecting the destination server is dependent on the server load metric for each server, assigning a priority to the packet, the priority being dependent on the application content; and dropping the packet if the priority comprises at least one of a predetermined type.

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