CN114666211B

CN114666211B - Communication method, model processing method and related equipment

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Publication number: CN114666211B
Application number: CN202011544586.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王凤宝; 王姗姗; 余明; 杨军
Original assignee: Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-23
Filing date: 2020-12-23
Publication date: 2023-11-17
Anticipated expiration: 2040-12-23
Also published as: CN114666211A; WO2022134908A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the application discloses a communication method which can be applied to the deployment of a 2B network, and comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user is obtained, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services; acquiring a preset planning strategy, wherein the planning strategy is used for deploying network resources of the whole network users; generating network resources of access network equipment based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the access network equipment is used for serving the terminal equipment, and the network resources are used for serving the first service. Network resources meeting the first user demand can be generated through SLA information and a preset planning strategy, and decoupling between the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is achieved.

Description

Communication method, model processing method and related equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the field of communication, in particular to a communication method, a model processing method and related equipment.

Background

The 2B network is a public network, and the network directly facing the public end user is a 2C network, compared with the 2C network, and the network of the current operator is a 2C network. The 2B network is an enterprise-oriented network, and a physical, logical or virtual network is deployed for an enterprise to support the communication requirements of the enterprise, such as automatic control, remote operation, environment monitoring and the like of an enterprise internal production line; for example, a 2B network is deployed for a user group of a certain company, so that the user of the certain company is ensured to obtain higher communication quality.

Since the configuration parameters involved in the resource deployment of the 2B network are mostly similar to those involved in the resource deployment of the 2C network, two sets of operation and maintenance procedures exist in the 2C public network in the past. The operation is business hall (physical store or network virtual store) centered; the operation and maintenance is centered on the network management center. The deployment procedure of the 2B network proposed by the third generation partnership project (the 3rd generation partner projectship project,3GPP) is shown in fig. 1, wherein the "network configuration" procedure multiplexes the network deployment procedure of the past 2C (public network), the operation is a sales-oriented process, and the 2C network is a sales SIM card and package; the 2B network is a sales logical network slice. The operation and maintenance is network-oriented as a whole and not specific to the user. The two-sided deployment process of 3GPP aims to independently add an operation process, so that the rapid deployment of 2B network is enabled.

However, in practice, the two-sided deployment procedure of 3GPP introduces a problem of cooperation between the two sides, and two teams of operators in the business hall and operators in the maintenance center need to cooperate with each other. As shown in fig. 1, the operation and maintenance personnel perform resource allocation for the 2B network, the business hall activates the resources, and the two parties cooperate to delay the deployment process, so that the ideal goal of 'operation and maintenance decoupling' is not realized. This coordination process may have multiple interactions and acknowledgements, with the interaction process being more complex in the case of anomalies, or in the case of repeated user demand modification of acknowledgements. In the network maintenance and service guarantee stage after deployment, the coordination and interaction process is more complex. I.e. the operation process is not simplified and is severely dependent on the operation and maintenance process.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a communication method, a model processing method and related equipment, which can be applied to the deployment of a 2B network, and can generate network resources meeting the first user requirement through SLA information and a preset planning strategy so as to realize the decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process.

A first aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication method that may be performed by a network element management system (element management system, EMS) or by a component of the EMS (e.g., a resource management module, processor, chip, or system-on-chip, etc.). The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user is obtained, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services; acquiring a preset planning strategy, wherein the planning strategy is used for deploying network resources of the whole network users; generating network resources of access network equipment based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the access network equipment is used for serving the terminal equipment, and the network resources are used for serving the first service.

In the embodiment of the application, the SLA information and the preset planning strategy are acquired, and the network resource is generated based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, so that the network requirement of the first user on the first service is met, the network resource meeting the requirement of the first user can be generated through the SLA information and the preset planning strategy, and the decoupling between the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the network resources in the foregoing step include radio resources, transmission resources, and device resources, where the radio resources are radio resources used by the signal processing apparatus to transmit the first service with the terminal device; the transmission resource is the transmission resource of the access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device; the device resource is the number of signal processing apparatuses and the connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps further include: generating configuration information of access network equipment based on network resources, wherein the configuration information is used for transmitting a first service; and sending configuration information to the access network equipment.

In this possible implementation manner, after the network resource is generated, the network resource may be converted into the network element resource, so that the access network device and the network element may transmit the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps are as follows: generating configuration information of the access network device based on the network resources, including: configuration information and installation information of the signal processing apparatus are generated based on the network resources.

In this possible implementation manner, after the installation information of the network resource and the signal processing device is generated, on one hand, the installation information may instruct a field engineer to install the signal processing device on the field. On the other hand, the network resource can be converted into the network element resource, so that the access network equipment and the network element can transmit the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps are as follows: generating installation information of the signal processing apparatus based on the network resource, comprising: if the confirmation information is received, the installation position of the signal processing device is generated based on the network resource, and the confirmation information is used for indicating and confirming the installation information.

In the possible implementation manner, if a field engineer or a user confirms that the actual installation position has no problem, the network resource is converted into the network element resource, so that the condition that the network resource does not accord with the theoretical installation position in the actual installation process and the conversion of the subsequent network element resource is influenced is avoided.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps are as follows: generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, including: and if the geographic area does not have the basic physical resources, generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the basic physical resources are used for providing equipment resources for the service of the first service.

In this possible implementation, the network resources are generated only when the geographic area has no underlying physical resources.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps are as follows: generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, including: if the geographic area has the basic physical resource, generating network resources based on the basic physical resource, marking information, SLA information and planning strategies, wherein the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user using the basic physical resource to transmit a second service.

In this possible implementation manner, if the geographic area has a basic physical resource, if the first service of the first user can apply the basic physical resource, the waste of resources can be saved.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the steps further include: the association of the network resource with the first user is marked.

In the possible implementation manner, the association relation between the user and the network resource can be marked, so that the service transmission of the previous user is not affected when the network resource is allocated to other users later.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication method that may be performed by a control device in an EMS, or by a component of the control device (e.g., a processor, chip, or system-on-chip, etc.). The method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS comprises a control device, a wireless planning device, a transmission planning device and a device planning device, and the method comprises the following steps: the control device acquires Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services; the control device sends first request information to the wireless planning device, wherein the first request information comprises SLA information; the control device receives first feedback information sent by the wireless planning device, wherein the first feedback information comprises the number, the positions, the frequency spectrums and the association among the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting first service with the terminal equipment through an air interface, the first feedback information is obtained based on first request information and a preset wireless planning strategy, and the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of the whole network users; the control device sends second request information to the transmission planning device, wherein the second request information comprises SLA information and first feedback information; the control device receives second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device, wherein the second feedback information comprises an address and a transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting a first service with access network equipment, the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device, the second feedback information is obtained based on second request information and a preset transmission planning strategy, and the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of all network users; the control device sends third request information to the equipment planning device, wherein the third request information comprises SLA information, first feedback information and second feedback information; the control device receives third feedback information sent by the equipment planning device, wherein the third feedback information comprises network topology, the network topology is used for indicating the number of the signal processing devices and the connection relation among the signal processing devices, the third feedback information is obtained based on third request information and a preset equipment planning strategy, and the equipment planning strategy is used for deploying equipment resources of all-network users.

In the embodiment of the application, the wireless, transmission and equipment planning strategies and resource pools suitable for the whole network users are prepared in advance, so that on one hand, the interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further the decoupling of the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into planning strategies in the past, and the planning strategies can be used for deploying network resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the steps further include: the control device generates configuration information of the access network equipment based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information, wherein the configuration information is used for the access network equipment to transmit a first service; the control device sends configuration information to the access network equipment.

In this possible implementation manner, the network resource may be converted into a network element resource, so that the access network device and the network element may transmit the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the step control device generates configuration information of the access network device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information, including: the control device generates configuration information of the access network device and installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the step control device generates the installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information, and includes: if the control device receives the confirmation information, the control device generates the installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information, and the confirmation information is used for indicating and confirming the installation information.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the step controlling device sends first request information to the radio planning device, including: and if the geographic area does not have the basic physical resource, the control device sends first request information to the wireless planning device, wherein the basic physical resource is used for providing hardware resources for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the step controlling device sends first request information to the radio planning device, including: if the geographic area has basic physical resources, the control device sends first request information to the wireless planning device; the first request information further comprises basic physical resources and marking information, the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resources and a second user, the second user is a user using the basic physical resources to transmit a second service, the second request information further comprises the basic physical resources and the marking information, and the third request information further comprises the basic physical resources and the marking information.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the steps further include: the control device marks the association relation between the network resource and the first user, wherein the network resource comprises first feedback information, second feedback information and third feedback information.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication method that may be performed by a wireless planning apparatus in an EMS or by a component of the wireless planning apparatus (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a system-on-chip, etc.). The method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS comprises a control device, a wireless planning device, a transmission planning device and a device planning device, and the method comprises the following steps: the wireless planning device receives first request information sent by a control module, wherein the first request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services; the wireless planning device acquires a preset wireless planning strategy, wherein the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of the whole network users; the wireless planning device generates first feedback information based on the first request information and a wireless planning strategy, wherein the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among the signal processing devices, and the signal processing devices are used for transmitting first service with the terminal equipment through an air interface; the wireless planning device sends first feedback information to the control device.

In the embodiment of the application, the wireless planning strategy and the resource pool suitable for the whole network user are prepared in advance, so that on one hand, the interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further, the decoupling of the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the wireless planning strategy can be used for deploying wireless resources of users of the whole network, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the first request information in the step above further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the first request information in the step further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between the basic physical resource and the second user, and the second user is a user that uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

A fourth aspect of the present application provides a communication method, which may be performed by a transmission planning apparatus in an EMS, or by a transmitted component (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a system-on-chip, etc.). The method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS comprises a control device, a wireless planning device, a transmission planning device and a device planning device, and the method comprises the following steps: the transmission planning device receives second request information sent by the control module, wherein the second request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user and first feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among the signal processing devices, and the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal equipment through an air interface; the transmission planning device acquires a preset transmission planning strategy, wherein the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of all network users; the transmission planning device generates second feedback information based on the second request information and a transmission planning strategy, wherein the second feedback information comprises an address and a transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting a first service with access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device; the transmission planning device sends second feedback information to the control device.

In the embodiment of the application, the transmission planning strategy and the resource pool suitable for the whole network user are prepared in advance, so that on one hand, the interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further, the decoupling of the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the transmission planning strategy can be used for deploying transmission resources of users of the whole network, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the second request information in the step further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the second request information in the step further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between the basic physical resource and the second user, and the second user is a user who uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

A fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication method that may be performed by a device planning apparatus in an EMS or by a component of the device planning apparatus (e.g., a processor, chip, or system-on-chip, etc.). The method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS comprises a control device, a wireless planning device, a transmission planning device and a device planning device, and the method comprises the following steps: the equipment planning device receives third request information sent by the control module, wherein the third request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, first feedback information and second feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal equipment through an air interface, the second feedback information comprises the address and the transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting the first services with access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises the signal processing devices; the equipment planning device acquires a preset equipment planning strategy, wherein the equipment planning strategy is used for deploying equipment resources of the whole network users; the device planning device generates third feedback information based on the third request information and the device planning strategy, wherein the third feedback information comprises network topology which is used for indicating the number of the signal processing devices and the connection relation between the access network devices; the equipment planning device sends third feedback information to the control device.

In the embodiment of the application, the equipment planning strategy and the resource pool suitable for the whole network user are prepared in advance, so that on one hand, the interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further, the decoupling of the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the equipment planning strategy can be used for deploying equipment resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the third request information in the step further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect, the third request information in the step further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between the basic physical resource and the second user, and the second user is a user who uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

A sixth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication method that may be performed by an EMS or by a component of the EMS (e.g., a resource management module, processor, chip, or system-on-chip, etc.). The method is applied to a multi-layer model comprising: the method comprises the steps of describing service requirements of a user, describing network resources providing the service, describing network resources corresponding to the service, wherein a first mapping relation exists between the user demand model and the network resource model, and a second mapping relation exists between the network resource model and the network resource model, and comprises the following steps: and establishing a first network resource identifier of the network resource model and a second network resource identifier, wherein the first network resource identifier is used for associating a first mapping relation between the network resource model and the user demand model, the second network resource identifier is used for associating a second mapping relation between the network resource model and the network element resource model, the first network resource identifier is used for managing network resources by the user, the first network resource identifier is a user perceived identifier, and the second network resource identifier is a user unaware identifier.

In the embodiment of the application, compared with the prior art that the network resource model has only a single identifier, the user can not perceive the change as long as the SLA is not bad if one network resource is migrated from one resource reservation to another better resource reservation due to the two identifiers of the established network resource model when the user manages the network resource. I.e. the first network resource identity (nsi id) and the user resource identity (Slice Profile id) seen by the user are unchanged, but the user does not perceive the changed second network resource identity (Local nsi id) and network element resource identity (Resource Group id). I.e. the user does not perceive a change in the internal implementation. Even in the migration process, two "resources reserved by the user" can serve one nsi at the same time, that is, one nsi id corresponds to two Local nsi ids, so as to ensure that the service in the migration process is not interrupted.

A seventh aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication device, which may be an EMS or a component of the EMS (e.g., a resource management device, a processor, a chip, or a chip system), including:

the system comprises an acquisition unit, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) information acquisition unit and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) information generation unit, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services;

The acquisition unit is also used for acquiring a preset planning strategy, wherein the planning strategy is used for deploying network resources of the whole network users;

the generating unit is used for generating network resources of the access network equipment based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, the access network equipment is used for serving the terminal equipment, and the network resources are used for serving the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the network resources include radio resources, transmission resources, and device resources, where the radio resources are radio resources used by the signal processing apparatus and the terminal device to transmit the first service; the transmission resource is the transmission resource of the access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device; the device resource is the number of signal processing apparatuses and the connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the generating unit in the communication apparatus is further configured to generate configuration information of the access network device based on the network resource, where the configuration information is used to transmit the first service;

the communication device further includes:

and the sending unit is used for sending the configuration information to the access network equipment.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the generating unit in the communication device is specifically configured to generate the configuration information and the installation information of the signal processing device based on the network resource.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the generating unit in the communication device is specifically configured to generate, if acknowledgement information is received, an installation location of the signal processing device based on the network resource, where the acknowledgement information is used to indicate that the installation information is acknowledged.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the generating unit in the communication apparatus is specifically configured to generate, if the geographic area does not have a basic physical resource, a network resource based on SLA information and a planning policy, where the basic physical resource is used to provide a device resource for serving the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the generating unit in the communication device is specifically configured to generate, if the geographic area has a basic physical resource, a network resource based on the basic physical resource, marking information, SLA information, and a planning policy, where the marking information is an association relationship between the basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user that uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the seventh aspect, the communication apparatus further includes:

and the marking unit is used for marking the association relation between the network resource and the first user.

An eighth aspect of the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a control apparatus in an EMS, or may be a component (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the control apparatus, where the EMS includes the control apparatus, a radio planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and a device planning apparatus, and the communication apparatus includes:

a sending unit, configured to send first request information to a wireless planning apparatus, where the first request information includes SLA information;

the receiving unit is used for receiving first feedback information sent by the wireless planning device, the first feedback information comprises the number, the positions, the frequency spectrums and the association among the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting first service through an air interface and terminal equipment, the first feedback information is obtained based on first request information and a preset wireless planning strategy, and the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of all-network users;

The transmission unit is also used for transmitting second request information to the transmission planning device, wherein the second request information comprises SLA information and first feedback information;

the receiving unit is further used for receiving second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device, the second feedback information comprises an address of a network element and a transmission bandwidth, the network element is used for transmitting first service with the access network equipment, the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device, the second feedback information is obtained based on second request information and a preset transmission planning strategy, and the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of all-network users;

the sending unit is further used for sending third request information to the equipment planning device, wherein the third request information comprises SLA information, first feedback information and second feedback information;

the receiving unit is further configured to receive third feedback information sent by the device planning apparatus, where the third feedback information includes a network topology, the network topology is used to indicate the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses, the third feedback information is obtained based on the third request information and a preset device planning policy, and the device planning policy is used to deploy device resources of the whole network user.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the communication apparatus further includes:

the generating unit is used for generating configuration information of the access network equipment based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information, wherein the configuration information is used for the access network equipment to transmit the first service;

and the sending unit is also used for sending the configuration information to the access network equipment.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the generating unit of the communication device is specifically configured to generate the configuration information of the access network device and the installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the generating unit of the communication device is specifically configured to generate the installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information if the receiving unit receives the acknowledgement information, where the acknowledgement information is used to indicate that the installation information is acknowledged.

Optionally, in one possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the sending unit of the communication device is specifically configured to send the first request information to the radio planning apparatus if there is no basic physical resource in the geographic area, where the basic physical resource is used to provide a hardware resource for serving the first service.

Optionally, in one possible implementation manner of the eighth aspect, the sending unit of the communication device is specifically configured to send the first request information to the radio planning device if the geographic area has basic physical resources;

the first request information further comprises basic physical resources and marking information, the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resources and a second user, the second user is a user using the basic physical resources to transmit a second service, the second request information further comprises the basic physical resources and the marking information, and the third request information further comprises the basic physical resources and the marking information.

the marking unit is used for marking the association relation between the network resource and the first user, wherein the network resource comprises first feedback information, second feedback information and third feedback information.

A ninth aspect of the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a radio planning apparatus or a component (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the radio planning apparatus in an EMS, where the EMS includes a control apparatus, the radio planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and a device planning apparatus, and the communication apparatus includes:

The receiving unit is used for receiving first request information sent by the control module, wherein the first request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services;

the system comprises an acquisition unit, a wireless planning unit and a control unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring a preset wireless planning strategy, and the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of all-network users;

a generating unit, configured to generate first feedback information based on the first request information and the radio planning strategy, where the first feedback information includes the number, the location, the frequency spectrum, and the association between signal processing apparatuses, and the signal processing apparatuses are configured to transmit a first service with a terminal device through an air interface;

and the sending unit is used for sending the first feedback information to the control device.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, the first request information further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the ninth aspect, the first request information further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between a basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user that uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

A tenth aspect of the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a transmission planning apparatus in an EMS, or may be a component (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the transmission planning apparatus, where the EMS includes a control apparatus, a radio planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and a device planning apparatus, and the communication apparatus includes:

the receiving unit is used for receiving second request information sent by the control module, the second request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of the first user and first feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among the signal processing devices, and the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal equipment through an air interface;

the system comprises an acquisition unit, a transmission planning unit and a control unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring a preset transmission planning strategy, and the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of all network users;

the generating unit is used for generating second feedback information based on the second request information and a transmission planning strategy, the second feedback information comprises an address and a transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting a first service with the access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises a signal processing device;

And the sending unit is used for sending the second feedback information to the control device.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, the second request information further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service. Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the tenth aspect, the second request information further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between a basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user that uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

An eleventh aspect of the present application provides a communication apparatus, which may be a device planning apparatus or may be a component (for example, a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the device planning apparatus in an EMS, where the EMS includes a control apparatus, a wireless planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and the device planning apparatus, and the communication apparatus includes:

the receiving unit is used for receiving third request information sent by the control module, the third request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, first feedback information and second feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal equipment through an air interface, the second feedback information comprises the address and the transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting the first services with access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises the signal processing devices;

The device comprises an acquisition unit, a storage unit and a control unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring a preset device planning strategy, and the device planning strategy is used for deploying device resources of the whole network user;

a generation unit configured to generate third feedback information based on the third request information and the device planning policy, where the third feedback information includes a network topology, and the network topology is used to indicate the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between access network devices;

and the sending unit is used for sending the third feedback information to the control device.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the eleventh aspect, the third request information further includes a basic physical resource, where the basic physical resource is a hardware resource that is used to provide services for the first service.

Optionally, in a possible implementation manner of the eleventh aspect, the third request information further includes tag information, where the tag information is an association relationship between a basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user that uses the basic physical resource to transmit the second service.

A twelfth aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a communication device, which may be applied to a multi-layer model, the multi-layer model including: the communication device comprises a user demand model, a network resource model and a network element resource model, wherein the user demand model is used for describing the demand of a user on a service, the network resource model is used for describing network resources for providing the service, the network element resource model is used for describing network element resources corresponding to the service, a first mapping relation exists between the user demand model and the network resource model, and a second mapping relation exists between the network resource model and the network element resource model, and the communication device comprises:

The system comprises a building unit, a user management unit and a user management unit, wherein the building unit is used for building a first network resource identifier of a network resource model and a second network resource identifier, the first network resource identifier is used for associating a first mapping relation between the network resource model and a user demand model, the second network resource identifier is used for associating a second mapping relation between the network resource model and a network element resource model, the first network resource identifier is used for managing network resources by the user, the first network resource identifier is a user perceived identifier, and the second network resource identifier is a user unaware identifier.

A thirteenth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a communication device, which may be an EMS. It may also be a component of an EMS (e.g. a resource management device, a processor, a chip or a chip system) that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the first aspect, or that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the second aspect, or that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the third aspect, or that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the fourth aspect, or that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the fifth aspect, or that performs the method of any of the possible implementations of the sixth aspect.

A fourteenth aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a communication apparatus, including: a processor coupled to a memory for storing a program or instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to implement the method in the first aspect or any of the possible implementations of the first aspect, or cause the communication device to implement the method in the second aspect or any of the possible implementations of the third aspect, or cause the communication device to implement the method in the fourth aspect or any of the possible implementations of the fourth aspect, or cause the communication device to implement the method in the fifth aspect or any of the possible implementations of the fifth aspect, or cause the communication device to implement the method in the sixth aspect or any of the possible implementations of the sixth aspect.

A fifteenth aspect of embodiments of the present application provides a computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect or any possible implementation of the second aspect, the fourth aspect or any possible implementation of the fourth aspect, any possible implementation of the fifth aspect or any possible implementation of the fifth aspect, the sixth aspect or any possible implementation of the sixth aspect.

A sixteenth aspect of embodiments of the present application provides a computer program product which, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation of the first aspect, the second aspect or any possible implementation of the second aspect, the third aspect or any possible implementation of the fourth aspect, any possible implementation of the fifth aspect or any possible implementation of the fifth aspect, the sixth aspect or any possible implementation of the sixth aspect.

The technical effects of the seventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners of the first aspect may be referred to as technical effects of the first aspect or different possible implementation manners of the first aspect, which are not described herein.

The technical effects of the eighth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners may be referred to technical effects of the second aspect or different possible implementation manners of the second aspect, which are not described herein.

The technical effects of the ninth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners of the third aspect may be referred to as technical effects of the third aspect or different possible implementation manners of the third aspect, which are not described herein.

The technical effects of the tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners may be referred to the technical effects of the fourth or different possible implementation manners of the fourth aspect, which are not described herein.

The technical effects of the eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners may be referred to technical effects of the fifth or different possible implementation manners of the fifth aspect, which are not described herein.

The technical effects of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or any one of the possible implementation manners may be referred to the technical effects of the sixth or different possible implementation manners of the sixth aspect, which are not described herein.

From the above technical solutions, the embodiment of the present application has the following advantages: the method comprises the steps of obtaining SLA information and a preset planning strategy, generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, further meeting the network requirements of a first user on a first service, generating the network resources meeting the first user requirements through the SLA information and the preset planning strategy, and realizing decoupling between an operation process and an operation maintenance process.

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FIGS. 1 and 2 are schematic diagrams of the framework of a 3GPP proposed 2B network deployment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a network frame according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is another schematic diagram of a network frame according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5A is a schematic flow chart of a model processing method according to an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 5B is a schematic diagram of a three-layer mapping structure according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of various scenarios of 2B network deployment in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method according to an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another communication method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a connection topology according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of another flow chart of a communication method according to an embodiment of the application;

fig. 11-17 are schematic diagrams of several configurations of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The terminal device in the embodiments of the present application may be a User Equipment (UE), a customer premise equipment (customer premise equipment, CPE), an access terminal, a UE unit, a UE station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a UE terminal, a wireless communication device, a multimedia device, a streaming media device, a UE agent, or a UE apparatus, etc. An access terminal may be a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a session initiation protocol (session initiation protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (wireless local loop, WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), a handheld device with wireless communication capabilities, a computing device or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, an in-vehicle device, a wearable device, a terminal in a future 5G network or a terminal in a future evolved public land mobile network (public land mobile network, PLMN) network, etc. The terminal device may also be fixed or mobile.

The access network device in the embodiment of the present application is a device that communicates with a terminal device, and may be a base station, a relay station, or an access point. The base station may be a base transceiver station (base transceiver station, BTS) in a global system for mobile communications (global aystem for mobile communication, GSM) or code division multiple access (code division multiple access, CDMA) network, a node base station (NB) in wideband code division multiple access (wideband code division multiple access, WCDMA), an evolved NB (eNB or eNodeB) in LTE, a radio controller in a cloud radio access network (cloud radio access network, CRAN) scenario, or a base station device in a 5G network, for example: the next generation node base station (next generation node B, gNB) may also be an access network device in a future evolved PLMN network, and may also be a wearable device or a vehicle device.

The core network device in the embodiment of the application corresponds to different devices in different systems. Such as a serving support node (serving GPRS support node, SGSN) for GPRS and/or a gateway support node (gateway GPRS support Node, GGSN) for GPRS, which may correspond in 3G; in 4G may correspond to a mobility management entity (mobility management entity, MME) and/or a serving gateway (S-GW); in 5G may correspond to an access and mobility management function (access and mobility management function, AMF), a session management function (session management function, SMF) or a user plane management function (user plane function, UPF).

The implementation principle, the specific embodiments and the corresponding beneficial effects of the technical solution of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Currently, the deployment procedure of the 2B network proposed by the 3GPP mainly includes a service support system (business support system, BSS), a network management system (network management system, NMS), and a network element management system (element management system, EMS), as shown in fig. 1. Wherein the NMS may implement a slice management function (network slice management function, NSMF) and the MAE may implement sub-slice management functions (network slice subnet management function, NSSMF) on-line planning (wireless allocation, transmission allocation, and device allocation).

The "network deployment" process therein multiplexes the network deployment process of the past 2C (public network), but in practice the two-sided deployment process of the 3GPP introduces a problem of coordination between the two sides, resulting in no simplification of the operation process. The existing network deployment process: the left operation process uses resources, and the use of resources necessarily calls the resource evaluation and reservation of the operation and maintenance process: determining whether the resources can meet the communication requirement of the 2B network, and if so, reserving related resources through issuing configuration; if not, a new network capacity expansion deployment is needed by the operation and maintenance process. That is, the operators in the business hall and the operators in the maintenance center need to cooperate with each other, and the operation process is seriously dependent on the operation and maintenance process.

As shown in fig. 1, the operation and maintenance personnel perform network resource allocation for the 2B network, the business hall activates the network resource, and the two parties cooperate to delay the deployment process, so that the ideal goal of 'operation and maintenance decoupling' is not realized. This coordination process may have multiple interactions and acknowledgements, with the interaction process being more complex in the case of anomalies, or in the case of repeated user demand modification of acknowledgements. For example: the base station is opened, which may involve several teams and requires several weeks (including wireless environment survey, wireless planning, equipment installation survey, equipment delivery and installation, and system debugging), the whole process requires personnel to the scene for several times, and each link requires the participation of relevant experts, so that the deployment process of the existing 2B network is slow and the labor cost is high. In the network maintenance and service guarantee stage after deployment, the coordination and interaction process is more complex. I.e. the operation process is not simplified and is severely dependent on the operation and maintenance process. In other words, the maintenance procedure of the original 2C network is obviously not set towards the "sales user" but towards the network infrastructure. When thousands of 2B network users are present, this procedure is no longer applicable and a new 2B network oriented operation procedure is required.

In addition, the operation of 2B networks enables thousands of industries, the number of 2B networks that need to be deployed is much greater than the deployment of 2C networks, and efficient deployment is necessary. The maintenance of the 2B network must be intelligent and automated, otherwise the maintenance cost of a huge number of 2B networks cannot be reduced, because the 2B users cannot organize professional maintenance teams, nor can operators deploy professional maintenance teams for each 2B network. The service quality requirement of the 2B network is higher, and any network quality problem can cause serious problems such as production line interruption, so that a model which is manually maintained by a person is not suitable for the 2B network, and automatic maintenance and automatic adjustment of network resources are required.

In addition, all the above requirements are required in implementation: the resource management module must sink to the EMS in order to achieve good real-time performance of near control network resource-control, and the EMS is often provided by manufacturers, so that the manufacturers have stronger capability of fine control of own base stations.

In order to solve the above problems and achieve the above needs, embodiments of the present application provide a communication method, which can be applied to deployment of a 2B network and other scenarios, and is not limited herein. The communication method is mainly implemented by integrating the functions of the dotted line part in fig. 2 into the EMS shown in fig. 3 and the preset planning policies (wireless policies and resources, transmission policies and resources, and device specifications). On the one hand, the interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further the decoupling of the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is realized. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into planning strategies in the past, and the planning strategies can be used for deploying network resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

The following describes a network framework provided by an embodiment of the present application:

referring to fig. 3, a resource management module is deployed in the EMS, and the resource management module includes an automatic planning and deployment control module (may also be referred to as a control module or a control device), a wireless planning module (may also be referred to as a wireless planning device), a transmission planning module (may also be referred to as a transmission planning device), and a device planning module (may also be referred to as a device specification device).

The wireless planning module can acquire a preset wireless planning strategy, and the wireless planning strategy can provide wireless resources for transmission service between the signal processing device and the terminal equipment: by reserving the resources, the signal quality of wireless coverage in the coverage area is ensured to meet the quality requirement of the 2B network. The higher the throughput of, for example, a 2B network, the higher the required wireless signal quality. For a 2B network with independent physical resources, remote radio unit (remote radio unit, RRU) equipment needs to be redeployed for regional coverage, and the installation position of the RRU and the number of the RRUs determine to distinguish the signal quality in the coverage.

The transmission planning module may obtain a preset transmission planning policy, where the transmission planning policy may provide transmission resources for the access network device: after the communication information of the 2B network is received by the radio frequency signal, the communication information is finally converted into information transmission between processing nodes in the access network device and information (also referred to as service) transmission between the access network device and the core network device, so that transmission resources need to be evaluated and reserved, and transmission priority of response is allocated according to the reliability requirement of the service quality of the 2B network. For a physical resource independent 2B network, the topology of the transmission needs to be planned, for example: chain connection between RRUs.

The device planning module may obtain a preset device planning policy, where the device planning policy may provide the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses: communication signals of terminal equipment in the 2B network need to be processed in a layered manner inside the access network equipment, so that whether the processing capacity of the processing single board meets the requirement needs to be evaluated and reserved. For example: for a 2B network with independent physical resources, how many master control single boards, baseband processing single boards, radio frequency single boards and the like are needed for planning.

On the one hand, when the wireless planning module, the transmission planning module and the equipment planning module carry out planning, the 2B network deployment strategy and the resource pool defined by network maintenance personnel (divided into the wireless planning personnel, the transmission planning personnel and the equipment planning personnel) are relied on, the strategy and the resource pool are prepared before the market is started, and the operation and maintenance personnel do not participate in the marketing of the 2B network in the 2B network deployment process, so that the operation and maintenance decoupling are realized.

On the other hand, the network framework distributes the resource management modules at the NMS and the EMS compared with the past resource management modules, and abstracts the upward 2B network demand interface and the leftward strategy interface with operation staff. The advantage is that efficient operation of the 2B network is supported.

The network framework of fig. 3 may further include, as shown in fig. 4, a business management system (bussiness management system, BMS), a service management system (service management system, SMS), an NMS, an EMS, and a Network Element (NE).

The architecture of the operating process (automation) includes: business hall, service level agreement (service level agreement, SLA) mapping, subnet decomposition (which can plan the transmission planning of access network devices and network elements), resource management modules, and network elements. The operation and maintenance process (preparation of resource pools and policies) includes: sales policy options (traffic or resource sales policies, e.g., at least one of frequency, software version, hardware module sales policies, 3D map, coverage area division, etc.), SLA policies and templates (traffic templates, e.g., at least one of size, packet interval, packet delay, etc. of 4K video traffic), inter-subnet resources { subnet docking parameters, e.g.: at least one of resources such as public land mobile network (public land mobile network, PLMN), base station ID, core network internet protocol (internet protocol, IP) address, radio policies and resources (e.g., at least one of spectrum, radio frequency bandwidth of RRU radio frequency module, power etc. specifications, default specifications of terminal equipment, typical propagation model, random distribution model of traffic and resources, channel power template, etc.), transmission policies and resources (e.g., at least one of security policies, regional gateway IP address, transmission differential service policies, etc.), device specifications { e.g.: the general public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI) chain installation topology style setting, a signal processing device (at least one of an antenna, a radio frequency board, a baseband board, a main control board and the like) deployment board position default strategy, at least one of hardware resource backup and capacity redundancy strategy and the like }, deployment strategy, subnet maintenance strategy and network element operation and maintenance strategy. In addition, the field engineer can complete the 2B network deployment through one time of on-site, and after arriving, the field engineer can asynchronously check, for example: work surveys (3D map, installation location), browse installation topology, installation equipment, equipment survey, etc.

The embodiment of the application provides a model processing method, which can be applied to a resource management module or an EMS (enhanced message service), referring to FIG. 5A, and comprises the following steps:

step 501, a first network resource identifier and a second network resource identifier of a network resource model are established.

The resource management module in the embodiment of the application can realize the binding of three-layer model mapping: a user requirements (policy Profile) model, a network Resource model, a network element (e.g., access network device) Resource (Resource Group) model. The user resource model comprises a user resource identifier (Slice Profile id).

Two identifiers of the network resource model, namely a first network resource identifier and a second network resource identifier, are established. The first network resource identifier is a network slice subnet instance identifier (network slice subnet instance identifier, nsi id) and the second network resource identifier is a regional network slice subnet instance identifier (Local network slice subnet instance identifier, local nsi id). The network element resource model includes a network element resource identification (Resource Group id).

The user may manage the network resource through the first network resource identification but does not perceive the second network resource identification of the network resource. For example: when the network architecture is updated and changed, the second network resource identification of the network resource is changed, but the first network resource identification is unchanged, that is, the user does not perceive the internal change of the network resource.

A first mapping relation exists between the user demand model and the network resource model, and a second mapping relation exists between the network resource model and the network element resource model. And establishing a mapping relation between the user resource model and the network resource model through the association relation between the user resource identifier and the first network resource identifier, and establishing the association relation between the first network resource identifier and the second network resource identifier, which is equivalent to the network resource model comprising two identifiers, wherein the network resource model is abstracted to be that the first network resource identifier is exposed to the user, and the second network resource identifier is not perceived by the user.

For ease of understanding, the relationship between the three-layer model (user demand model, network Resource model, and network element Resource model) mappings is illustrated in fig. 5B, with reference to fig. 5B, the user demands include demands for network a, network B, and network C, the network resources include nsi 1, nsi 2, local nsi 10, local nsi 20, and the network element resources include Resource Group a, resource Group B, resource Group C, resource Group d. Wherein, NSSi in the network resource is the network resource perceived by the user, and Local NSSi is the network resource not perceived by the user.

Taking the 2B network as an example, the nsi id uses the Slice Profile id to define Slice Profile of the 2B network view bearer, and the Local nsi id uses the nsi id to define nsi of the reserved resource bearer. The reserved Resource in the basic network, namely the Resource Group Resource for short, is designed to be used as another object class, the Local NSsi ID parameter is defined to be used as the identification of the object class, and the NSSI ID is configured in the Resource reserved by the 2B user to identify the reserved Resource as a certain NSSI to be exposed to the user. This has the advantage that nsi is exposed to the 2B user as an abstract object, and the specific implementation object-2B user reserves a Resource Group (Resource Group) as an internal implementation object, and implementation details 2B user need not be aware. The current historical stage implementation technology of the rapid development of the 2B network is continuously developed, the implementation and resource grouping mode in the basic network are continuously evolved, and the decoupling of the external abstract interface and the internal specific implementation is realized by introducing Local NSsi, so that the 2B user does not sense the change of the internal implementation. For example: migration of an nsi from one Resource reservation (Resource Group) to another better Resource reservation is not perceived by the 2B user as long as the SLA is not degraded (neither nsi nor Slice Profile seen by the user is changed). Even in the migration process, two 'resources reserved by 2B users' can serve one NSsi at the same time, namely one NSsi id corresponds to two Local NSsi ids, so that the service in the migration process is ensured not to be interrupted.

Illustratively, the underlying network divides Resource groups (Resource groups): 10 and 20, provide resources for two 2B network views (nsi): 1 and 2. These two 2B network views support three 2B network requirements (Slice Profile): A. b, C.

Alternatively, a part of users pay attention to the Slice Profile only, and a part of users pay attention to Slice Profile and Nssi, for example: after wholesale NSsi from the operator, the Slice Profile is sold as a contractor to the outside.

Alternatively, the mapping relationship between the nsi layer and the Resource Group layer expressed in fig. 5B is to define an attribute nsi ID in the Resource Group, and another mapping manner may be used, where an attribute localnsi ID is added to the nsi, to define which Resource Group is used by the nsi.

The network (e.g., 2B) deployment referred to by embodiments of the present application includes evaluation and reservation of various resources. Wherein the evaluation is to evaluate whether the current base network has enough resources to meet the communication requirements of the new 2B network, and if not, what aspect of expansion is needed to meet the requirements of the new 2B network. The reservation is to divide the required network resources in case of enough network resources, and allocate the network resources to the new 2B network by means of configuration.

When deployment of one 2B network triggers evaluation and reservation, it may be necessary to put all 2B networks carried on the underlying network together for evaluation, as all of these 2B networks together consume the resources of the underlying network, and there may be some degree of statistical multiplexing gain between 2B networks.

The resources to be evaluated and reserved include at least one of radio resources, transmission resources and equipment resources, and the corresponding description may refer to the description of the radio planning strategy, the transmission planning strategy and the equipment planning strategy corresponding to fig. 3, which are not described herein.

As shown in fig. 6, the 2B network deployment in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to various scenarios (one 2B network is carried by one base network, or a plurality of 2B networks are carried by one base network), and the following descriptions are respectively given below:

1. Radio Resource (RB) reservation mode 2B network: for example, the basic network is a 5G network, a plurality of 5G base stations and cells form coverage of a certain area, and partial RB resources are reserved in the cells to a certain 2B user, so that special communication requirements of the user are ensured. Multiple 2B networks may be created by way of RB reservation on one 5G network.

2. Independent logical network as 2B network: for example, a 5G network-gmodeb and corresponding cells are created on a physical network (device, transport) for a certain 2B user, which 2B user has exclusive relevance to the cell. Multiple 5G nodebs and their corresponding cells may be created on one physical node, in which case there is partial sharing of physical resources-e.g., RRU sharing, but the spectrum is typically exclusive to each 2B network.

3. Physical resource independent 2B network: in this case, the physical facilities to the logical resources are all built entirely independently for the 2B network. For example, a completely independent network is deployed independently for a certain plant.

After the 2B network deployment is finished, the 2B network user (2B tenant for short) will perform an account opening of the terminal device (2B network end user for short), for example: and opening the monitoring camera in the factory park. From the above point of view, a 2C network can be regarded as a special 2B network, and an operator deploys the 2B network to its own end users. Therefore, the 2B network deployment mode is also suitable for the deployment of the 2C network. The embodiments of the present application are schematically illustrated using only 2B network deployment as an example.

It will be appreciated that the above three application scenarios are merely examples, and in practical applications, the present application can also be applied to other scenarios, which are not limited herein.

In the embodiment of the application, only the access network equipment is a base station, and the terminal equipment is CPE for example for schematic description. The communication method in the embodiment of the present application will be described below in connection with the network frameworks of fig. 3 to 6, and the method may be performed by the EMS, may be performed by a resource management module, may be performed by a component of the EMS (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system, etc.) or a component of the resource management module (e.g., a processor, a chip, or a chip system, etc.), and will be schematically described below by taking the embodiment of the method performed by the EMS as an example.

Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application includes:

701. and acquiring SLA information of the first user.

The EMS acquires SLA information of a first user, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and a first service corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirement of the first user on the first service (or a 2B network). The manner in which the EMS obtains the SLA information may be sent by the receiving NMS or may be obtained by forwarding through other devices, which is not limited herein.

The geographical area in the embodiment of the present application may be displayed by means of a computer aided design (computer aided design, CAD) map, may be displayed by means of longitude and latitude, or may be displayed by other means, and is not limited herein.

Optionally, the SLA information may further include isolation, signal processing device type specified by the user, CPE type, frequency point bandwidth, and/or type of device. If the user does not specify the resources or types, a default equipment model can be selected according to the sales policy and the user service registration or determined according to the resources in an automatic planning link, and the method is not limited in the specific point. This isolation is used to indicate the needs of the user, for example: whether the spectrum is shared alone or shared, etc.

The service (for example, the first service or the second service) in the embodiment of the application may be a video service of a user, an account opening service of a terminal device (for example, the first terminal device), an opening service of a monitoring camera in a certain factory park, a set of completely independent network services deployed independently in a certain factory, and the like, and is not limited in particular herein.

The signal processing device in the embodiment of the present application may be an antenna, an RRU, a low-power remote radio unit (pico remote radio unit, pRRU), a baseband processing unit (building base band unite, BBU), a main control unit, etc., which is not limited herein.

702. And acquiring a preset planning strategy.

The EMS obtains preset planning policies for deploying network resources of the whole network user, where the planning policies may include at least one of the wireless planning policies (wireless policies and resources), transmission planning policies (transmission policies and resources), device planning policies (device policies and resources) in fig. 4, and so on.

Optionally, the radio planning strategy, the transmission planning strategy and the equipment planning strategy are a strategy and a resource pool prepared by a radio planner, a transmission planner and an equipment planner before market starting respectively. Namely, operation and maintenance personnel do not participate in marketing of the 2B network in the 2B network deployment process, and further operation and maintenance decoupling are realized.

Optionally, the wireless planning strategy may include: the available spectrum, the model number of the available signal processing device, the radio resource scheduling characteristics, such as at least one of multiple input multiple output (multiple in multiple out, MIMO) related characteristics (e.g., distributed MIMO), etc., are not limited in detail herein. The transmission planning strategy may include: at least one of IP resource pool, transmission security policy, audit service priority template, etc., and is not specifically limited herein. The device planning strategy may include: the style definition of the topology of the signal processing apparatus, etc., is not particularly limited herein.

703. Network resources of the access network device are generated based on the SLA information and the planning strategy.

After the EMS obtains the SLA information and the planning policy, the EMS may generate network resources of the access network device based on the SLA information and the planning policy. The access network device is used for serving the terminal device of the first user, and the network resource is used for serving the first service of the first user.

Optionally, the network resource includes at least one of a radio resource, a transmission resource and a device resource, where the radio resource mainly provides a radio resource used by the signal processing device and the terminal device to transmit the first service, the transmission resource is mainly a transmission resource of the access network device, and the device resource is mainly the number of signal processing devices and a connection relationship between the signal processing devices, where the signal processing devices are devices in the first access network device and are mainly used for signal processing (encoding, decoding, analog-to-digital conversion, and so on).

Optionally, the radio resources include: at least one of antenna, location, number, frequency spectrum, radio frequency bandwidth, power, etc. of RRU radio frequency module, default specification of terminal device, typical propagation model, random distribution model of service and resource, channel power template, etc.

Optionally, the transmission resources include: at least one of security policies, regional gateway IP address, transport differentiated services policies, etc.

Optionally, the device resources include: the CPRI chain is provided with at least one of topology style setting, deployment board position default strategy of signal processing devices (such as baseband board, main control board and the like), hardware resource backup and capacity redundancy strategy and the like.

Optionally, before the EMS generates the network resources of the access network device based on the SLA information and the planning policy, it may also determine whether there are basic physical resources in the geographic area. That is, before the EMS acquires the SLA information of the first user, if the network resource is already generated for other users (for example, the second user) and marked (namely, the association relationship between the second user and the network resource), the EMS can increase and modify the network resource which is the access network equipment on the basis of the basic physical resource and the isolation degree in the SLA information after acquiring the SLA information of the first user.

Further, the EMS obtains information related to the basic physical resource (e.g., marking information, where the marking information is used to indicate an association relationship between the basic physical resource and the second user), and generates a network resource of the access network device based on the basic physical resource, the marking information, the SLA information (which may include SLA information of the first user and/or SLA information of the second user), and the planning policy.

Optionally, if the underlying physical resources are not present in the geographic region, indicating an initial deployment, the EMS generates network resources of the access network device based on the SLA information and the planning strategy. Wherein the underlying physical resource is a device resource that may be used to provide services for a first service of the first user. At this time, the network resources may not include the device resources, and the underlying physical resources may be used. If the underlying material resources do not meet the needs of the first user, the network resources may include device resources.

Alternatively, in the process of generating the network resource by the EMS, correction information of a field engineer or a first user, etc. (e.g., a position on a certain logic map has a problem that cannot be installed in an actual installation, etc.) may be received, and the network resource may be regenerated based on the correction information.

It can be understood that the network resource in the embodiment of the present application may be a network resource with independent physical resources, a network resource of an independent logical network, a network resource of an RB, etc., which is equivalent to the various application scenarios described in fig. 6.

704. Configuration information of the access network device is generated based on the network resources. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the EMS generates the network resource, configuration information of the access network device may be generated according to the network resource, where the configuration information is used for the access network device to transmit the first service of the first user, or otherwise serve the first terminal device.

Optionally, the configuration information includes: the information about the cell (for example, ID of the cell, the resource of the cell obtained by combining the resources), at least one of a cabinet, a frame, a slot number, a name, etc. configured by the RRU is not limited herein.

Optionally, the EMS may also generate installation information of the signal processing device based on the network resources.

Further, if the EMS receives the confirmation information, the EMS generates installation information of the signal processing device based on the network resource. The confirmation information is used for indicating confirmation of the installation information. In other words, the field engineer or user remotely checks the installation information of the signal processing apparatus and confirms that the installation position of the signal processing apparatus is not problematic based on the field investigation.

It can be appreciated that if the installation location of the signal processing device on site and the device resource in the network resource have access, the site engineer or the user may feed back to the EMS which signal processing devices do not meet the installation requirement, and the EMS regenerates the network resource of the first access network device based on the feedback.

705. And sending configuration information to the access network equipment. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the EMS generates the configuration information of the access network device, the configuration information may be sent to the access network device, so that the access network device may transmit the first service of the first user according to the configuration information.

Alternatively, if the initial deployment is performed, the access network device may not be installed, and may attempt to connect to the access network device, and if the connection is performed, send the configuration information to the access network device

706. The association of the network resource with the first user is marked. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the EMS generates the network resource of the access network device, the association relationship between the network resource and the first user may be marked, so that the network resource of the other user can be conveniently distinguished, and the network resource of the access network device corresponding to the other user is prevented from affecting the transmission quality of the first service or the network requirement of the first user.

In one possible implementation manner, the communication method provided by the embodiment of the present application may include step 701, step 702, and step 703. In another possible implementation, the communication method may further include step 701, step 702, step 703, and step 706. In another possible implementation, the communication method may further include step 701, step 702, step 703, step 704, and step 705. Among them, steps 701 to 703 may be applied to evaluation of the 2B network, preliminary quotation, etc., and steps 701 to 705 may be applied to a deployment procedure of the 2B network.

Step 701 in the embodiment of the present application may be performed before step 702 or after step 702, and step 701 may also be performed simultaneously with step 702, and the timing relationship between step 701 and step 702 is not limited in the present application. Step 706 may precede step 705 or step 704, and is not specifically limited herein.

In the embodiment of the application, the EMS acquires the SLA information and the preset planning strategy, generates the network resource information based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, further meets the network requirement of a user on the service, and can generate the network resource information meeting the requirement of the user through the preset planning strategy and the SLA information so as to realize decoupling between the operation process and the operation and maintenance process. In addition, the field engineer can complete the 2B network deployment through one time of on-site, and after arriving, the field engineer can asynchronously check, for example: work surveys (3D map, installation location), browse installation topology, installation equipment, equipment survey, etc.

Referring to fig. 8, another embodiment of a communication method is provided in the present application, and the method may be applied to an EMS or a resource management module, etc., where the EMS or the resource management module includes a control device (corresponding to the automatic planning and deployment control module in the network frame shown in fig. 3), a radio planning device (corresponding to the radio planning module in the network frame shown in fig. 3), a transmission planning device (corresponding to the transmission planning module in the network frame shown in fig. 3), and a device planning device (corresponding to the device planning module in the network frame shown in fig. 3). The method may be performed by various means (control means, radio planning means, transmission planning means and/or device planning means) and may also be performed by components of various means (e.g. processor, chip, or system-on-chip, etc.), another embodiment of the communication method comprising:

801. The control device acquires SLA information of the first user.

This step 801 is similar to 701 in the embodiment shown in fig. 7 and will not be described again here. Only the execution body is further refined, i.e. from EMS to control means.

802. The control device sends first request information to the wireless planning device. Correspondingly, the wireless planning device receives the first request information sent by the control device.

After the control obtains the SLA information of the first user, first request information may be sent to the wireless planning apparatus, where the first request information includes the SLA information of the first user. The first request information is used for controlling the device to acquire radio resources required for transmitting the first service.

Alternatively, the control means may determine whether there are hardware resources available in the geographical area for serving the first service before sending the first request information to the radio planning apparatus.

If the basic physical resource does not exist in the geographical area, and the geographical area is a preliminary deployment network (for example, access network equipment in the geographical area needs to be newly installed), the control device sends a first request message to the wireless planning device, wherein the first request message comprises SLA information.

If the basic physical resource exists in the geographical area, and the geographical area is also provided with a hardware basis, the first request information sent to the wireless planning device by the control module comprises SLA information (SLA information of the first user and/or SLA information of the second user) and marking information, wherein the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resource and the second user. The second user is a user transmitting the second service using a basic physical resource, which is a network resource used by the second user in transmitting the second service.

The second user in the embodiment of the application can be the first user, and can also be other users except the first user in the whole network users. In other words, the first service and the second service may be different services of the same user, may be the same service of different users, or may be different services of different users, which is not limited herein.

After the control device sends the first request information to the wireless planning device, the wireless planning device receives the first request information.

803. The wireless planning device generates first feedback information based on the first request information and the wireless planning strategy.

After the radio planning apparatus receives the first request information, the first feedback information (may also be radio resources) may be generated based on the first request information and a radio planning policy, where the radio planning policy is preset and may be applied to deploy transmission resources of the whole network user.

Optionally, the radio planning resource is a planning strategy predefined by radio network planners and applicable to whole network users. The description of the radio planning resource may refer to the description in step 702 of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, which is not repeated here.

Optionally, the radio planning apparatus may determine first feedback information (or radio resources) based on the first request information and the radio planning strategy, where the first feedback information (or radio resources) includes: at least one of the number, location (e.g., local coordinates of indoor pRRU, latitude and longitude of outdoor pRRU antenna), spectrum, and association (or affinity) between signal processing devices (e.g., antennas, pRRU) within the wireless coverage area in order to satisfy the first user's needs for coverage area, capacity, etc. The association between the signal processing devices may refer to which pRRU belongs to a radio frequency signal digital combining group, or which radio frequency signal digital combining group belongs to a cell, etc., which is not limited herein.

The signal processing device in the embodiment of the application can transmit the first service with the terminal equipment of the first user through the air interface.

Optionally, after receiving the first request information, the wireless planning device may perform wireless planning/simulation according to the SLA information and the wireless planning policy, so as to obtain a planning result, and if successful, the planning result may be used as the first feedback information. If not, the wireless planning/simulation can be repeated until the planning result can meet the requirement of the first user on the first service.

804. The wireless planning device sends first feedback information to the control device. Correspondingly, the control device receives the first feedback information sent by the wireless planning device.

After generating the first feedback information (or radio resource), the radio planning apparatus transmits the first feedback information (or radio resource) to the control apparatus. The control device receives the first feedback information (or radio resource) sent by the radio planning device.

805. The control device sends the second request information to the transmission planning device. Correspondingly, the transmission planning device receives the second request information sent by the control device.

After the control device acquires the first feedback information, the control device sends second request information to the transmission planning device, wherein the second request information comprises SLA information and the first feedback information.

Optionally, if the basic physical resource exists, the second request information further includes the basic physical resource, and/or tag information, etc.

806. The transmission planning device generates second feedback information based on the second request information and the transmission planning strategy.

After the transmission planning device receives the second request information sent by the control device, the transmission planning device generates second feedback information (may also be referred to as transmission resources) based on the second request information and a transmission planning policy, where the transmission planning policy is preset and may be applied to deploy the transmission resources of the whole network user. The second request information is used for the control device to acquire transmission resources used for transmitting the first service.

Optionally, the transmission planning strategy is a planning strategy predefined by the transmission network planner and may be applicable to the whole network users. The description of the transmission planning resource may refer to the description in step 702 of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, which is not repeated here.

Optionally, the radio planning apparatus may determine second feedback information (or transmission resources) based on the second request information and the transmission planning strategy, where the second feedback information (or transmission resources) includes: at least one of a transmission configuration of an access network device (e.g., a base station), a configuration of a transmission interface, a configuration of a maintenance link, a configuration of links and endpoints between the access network device and other network elements (access network device or core network device), a security-related configuration, etc.

807. The transmission planning device sends second feedback information to the control device. Correspondingly, the control device receives the second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device.

After the transmission planning apparatus generates the second feedback information, the transmission planning apparatus may send the second feedback information to the control apparatus.

808. The control device sends the third request information to the equipment planning device. Correspondingly, the equipment planning device receives the third request information sent by the control device.

The control means may send third request information to the device planning means, the third request information including SLA information, first feedback information, and second feedback information. The third request information is used for controlling the device to acquire equipment resources required for transmitting the first service.

Optionally, if the basic physical resource exists, the third request information further includes the basic physical resource, and/or tag information, etc.

809. The device planning apparatus generates third feedback information based on the third request information and the device planning strategy.

After the device planning apparatus receives the third request information sent by the control apparatus, the device planning apparatus generates third feedback information (may also be referred to as device resources) based on the third request information and a device planning policy, where the device planning policy is preset and may be applied to deploying the device resources of the whole network user. The third request information is used for the control device to acquire equipment resources used for transmitting the first service.

Optionally, the device planning strategy is a planning strategy predefined by the device network planner and may be applicable to the whole network user. The description of the device planning resource may refer to the description in step 702 of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, which is not repeated herein.

Optionally, the wireless planning apparatus may determine third feedback information (or device resource) based on the third request information and the device planning policy, the third feedback information (or device resource) including: generating a single board configuration (such as a radio frequency single board, a baseband single board and a main control single board) of the access network equipment, a board bitmap of the in-frame equipment and a connection topological diagram of the out-frame remote equipment (such as RRU and/or hub integrated unit rHub). May also be referred to as a network topology, which is used to indicate the number of signal processing devices and the connection relationship between the signal processing devices. Wherein the connection topology map or network topology may support a field engineer for hardware installation. And can represent the affinity of wireless coverage, for example: RRUs covering neighboring areas should also be neighboring in the connection topology map or network topology.

Alternatively, the network topology may be a logical connection graph and/or a physical connection graph. By way of example, fig. 9 is an illustration of a physical connection diagram in a network topology, wherein a cabinet of a signal processing device comprises a plurality of blocks, possibly a plurality of boards, for example: the BBU is a frame, and comprises a main control board (micro programming technique, MPT) and a baseband processing board (base band processing board, BBP), and a plurality of RRUs are connected with the BBP through rHub.

810. The equipment planning device sends third feedback information to the control device. Correspondingly, the control device receives the third feedback information sent by the equipment planning device.

After the device planning apparatus generates the third feedback information (or the device resource), the device planning apparatus may send the third feedback information to the control apparatus.

811. The control device marks the association relation between the network resource and the first user. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the control device acquires the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information (or after the control device acquires the radio resource, the transmission resource and the equipment resource), the control device may mark the association relationship between the network resource and the first user, so as to avoid that other users deploy the 2B network to affect the first service of the first user. The network resources include radio resources, transmission resources, and device resources, or the network resources include first feedback information, second feedback information, and third feedback information.

812. The control device generates configuration information of the access network device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information. This step is optional.

This step 812 is similar to that described above with respect to 704 in the embodiment of fig. 7, and will not be repeated here. Only the execution body is further refined, i.e. from EMS to control means.

In one possible implementation manner, the communication method provided by the embodiment of the present application may include steps 801 to 810. In another possible implementation, the communication method may further include steps 801 to 811. In another possible implementation, the communication method may further include steps 801 to 812. Steps 801 to 810 may be applied to evaluation of the 2B network, preliminary quotation, etc., and steps 801 to 812 may be applied to a deployment procedure of the 2B network.

Step 811 in the embodiment of the present application may be performed after step 812 or before step 812, or step 811 and step 812 may be performed simultaneously, which is not limited herein.

In addition, in the above steps, the field engineer may go to the field to perform asynchronous viewing, for example: work surveys (3D map, installation location), browse installation topology, installation equipment, equipment survey, etc.

Referring to fig. 10, in another embodiment of the communication method according to the present application, the method may be applied in a variety of scenarios:

scene one: a "logically independent" network (e.g., a 2B network) is deployed without underlying network resources within a geographic region. I.e. the initial deployment of the network.

Scene II: with underlying network resources within the geographic region, a "logically independent" network (e.g., a 2B network) is deployed.

Scene III: in the case of underlying network resources within a geographic region, a network (e.g., a 2B network) of "RB resource isolation" is deployed.

The "logical independent" includes spectrum resources, cells, logical base stations (e.g., gNB function of 5G), operation and maintenance functions, and the like, which are not limited herein.

It will be appreciated that the above three scenarios are just examples, and that the method may be applied to other scenarios in practical applications, and is not limited herein.

The following describes in detail the communication method provided by the embodiment of the present application with reference to fig. 10 and the above scenario: the method comprises the following steps:

1001. the user sends user intent to the business hall.

The manner of acquiring the user intention in the business hall in the embodiment of the application can be that the business hall acquires the user intention in a manner of going to the site of the business hall, or can be informed in a manner of sending the user intention to the business hall by a remote user, and is not limited in particular.

The user intent includes SLA information describing the first user's need for the first service, which may include a geographic area, a number of terminal devices, and a corresponding first service of the terminal devices.

Optionally, the user intention may also include the type of resource and device such as pRRU type, CPE type, frequency point bandwidth, etc. If the user does not specify, a default equipment model can be selected according to the sales strategy and the user service registration or determined according to the resources in an automatic planning link, and the method is not limited in the specific point.

Optionally, the user intent may also include isolation for indicating the needs of the first user, for example: whether the spectrum is shared alone or shared, etc.

1002. The business hall sends an SLA mapping request to the SLA mapping means.

After the business hall obtains the user intention, an SLA mapping request is sent to an SLA mapping device, and the SLA mapping request is used for converting the SLA understood by the first user into the SLA of the network.

1003. The SLA mapping means sends a network split request to the subnet splitting means.

After the SLA mapping means obtains the user intention in the SLA mapping request, the SLA understood by the first user is converted into the SLA of the network, that is, the user model is converted into the network model (including the SLA-related part), and the network decomposing request is sent to the subnet decomposing means.

1004. The subnet decomposition device sends a 2B radio access network (radio access network, RAN) network intention request to the control device.

After receiving the network decomposition request, the subnet decomposition device decomposes the SLA requirement of the whole network into SLA requirements of each subnet to obtain the butt joint parameters between the subnets: PLMN, tracking area (tracking area code, TAC), access network device ID, single network slice selection assistance information (single network slice selection assistance information, S-nsai) identity, interfacing IP address of user plane of access network-core network control plane, etc.

After the subnet decomposition means decomposes the SLA requirements of the respective subnets, a 2B RAN network intention request is sent to the control means, the 2B RAN network intention request including the inter-subnet docking parameters.

1005. The control device performs scene determination, this step being optional.

Alternatively, the control device may first determine the scene, and then execute step 1006. The scene judgment refers to that the control device judges whether a basic resource exists in the geographic area in the SLA information, wherein the basic resource is a resource for providing service for a second user to open a second service before the first user network resource is allocated. If the geographic area does not have the basic resource, the geographic area is indicated to belong to initial deployment, the first user is determined to be suitable for the scene one, and if the geographic area has the basic resource, the geographic area corresponds to the scene two and the scene three.

Optionally, the control device determines that the first user is suitable for the second scenario according to the coverage area of the base resource, the isolation requirement (i.e. the isolation degree described above) of the user (the first user and/or the second user), and the access network device type of the base resource.

Optionally, the control device determines that the first user is applicable to the third scenario according to a coverage area of the base resource, an isolation requirement of the user (the first user and/or the second user), a supporting capability of the base resource to the 2B network slice, SLA information, and the like.

1006. The control device sends a radio planning request to the radio planning device.

Optionally, after the control device obtains the 2B RAN network intention request, the control device may send a radio planning request to the radio planning device. The radio planning request comprises SLA information (geographical area, number of terminal devices, first service corresponding to the terminal devices, etc.) of the first user.

Optionally, after the control device performs the scene determination, the wireless planning request sent by the control device may be different due to different scenes, which is specifically as follows:

if the first scenario is the first scenario, the radio planning request sent by the control device to the radio planning device includes SLA information (e.g., at least one of a geographical area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices), etc.

If the second scenario is the second scenario, the radio planning request sent by the control device to the radio planning device includes SLA information, basic resources, marking information (i.e. the association relationship between the second user and the basic resources), and the like.

If the third scenario is the third scenario, the radio planning request sent by the control device to the radio planning device includes SLA information, basic resources, marking information (i.e. the association relationship between the second user and the basic resources), and the like.

1007. The wireless planning device performs wireless planning/simulation based on the wireless planning request and the wireless planning strategy to obtain wireless resources.

After receiving the radio planning request sent by the control device, the radio planning device can acquire a radio planning strategy, and perform radio/simulation based on the radio planning request and the radio planning strategy, and if the simulation is successful, determine the radio resource of the first user. If the simulation fails, a failure reason (such as insufficient frequency spectrum) is fed back to the control device, and the first user readjusts the SLA information (i.e. modifies the requirement of the first service).

It will be appreciated that since the radio planning strategy is for a whole network of users, the radio planning apparatus may also acquire the radio planning strategy before receiving the radio planning request.

Due to different scenarios, the radio resources generated by the radio planning apparatus may be different, which is specifically as follows:

if the scenario is the first scenario, the radio resources generated by the radio planning apparatus may include: the number of signal processing devices (RRU, antennas, etc.), deployment location, allocation of spectrum bandwidth, affinity relationship between signal processing devices.

If the second scenario is the case, the radio resources generated by the radio planning apparatus may include signal processing apparatuses in the base resources and new affinity relations between the signal processing apparatuses (e.g., which RRUs constitute one TRP and which TRPs constitute one cell). Of course, if the existing base resource cannot meet the requirement of the first user, the radio resource may further include the number of new signal processing apparatuses, the deployment location, and the redefined affinity relationship.

If the third scenario is the case, the radio resources generated by the radio planning apparatus may include which cells, cell slots and subcarrier-related resources are selected.

The signal processing device in the embodiment of the present application may be at least one of an antenna, RRU, pRRU, BBU, a main control unit, etc., which is not limited herein.

Alternatively, the affinity relationship between the signal processing means may refer to: which RRUs form the digital combination of radio frequency signals and which form a cell, etc., and the specific examples are not limited herein.

Alternatively, the deployment location may be marked by latitude and longitude, or local (x, y, z) or local angular position, and the like, and is not limited in this regard.

1008. The radio planning apparatus transmits radio resources to the control apparatus.

The wireless device transmits the wireless resource obtained after simulation to the control device.

Alternatively, the field engineer may view the radio resource in one step and confirm or modify the radio resource based on the field situation. Specifically, the field engineer may confirm or add or delete the information in the radio resource through the business hall, for example: the site engineer may confirm the candidate locations of the pRRU, deny which locations cannot be installed, or add installation, etc., and the wireless device re-schedules the wireless resources based on the site engineer's confirmed locations or the new candidate locations until the site engineer confirms the wireless resources.

Of course, the primary quotation and scheme selection can be performed according to the number of pRRU, and after the first user negotiates with the business personnel, the first user can perform the re-user demand issuing by modifying the SLA service quality or the type of RRU sold, etc. The re-planning is triggered until the cost of the first user and the quality of the first service expectations are reached.

1009. The control device sends a transmission planning request to the transmission planning device.

After the control device acquires the radio resources, a transmission planning request may be sent to a transmission planning device, where the transmission planning request includes SLA information of the first user and the radio resources, and the transmission planning request is used to plan internal transmission planning of the access network device and other network elements (e.g., other access network devices, core network devices) for the first user.

1010. The transmission planning device sends the transmission resources to the control device.

After the transmission planning device receives the transmission planning request, a transmission planning strategy can be obtained, and the transmission resource of the first user is generated based on the transmission planning request and the transmission planning strategy.

It will be appreciated that since the transmission planning strategy is for all network users, the transmission planning apparatus may also obtain the transmission planning strategy before receiving the transmission planning request.

Alternatively, transmission resources refer to allocation of SLAs of the RAN network to a terrestrial transmission network, typically optical fiber transmission, defined by IP addresses, routes, etc. of the management plane, control plane, user plane.

Due to different scenes, the transmission resources generated by the transmission planning device may be different, which is specifically as follows:

If the scenario is one, the transmission resources generated by the transmission planning device may include: at least one of configuration of transmission interfaces of access network equipment, configuration of maintenance links, configuration of links and end points between access network equipment and core network equipment, security-related configuration and the like.

Illustratively, the transmission resources include a home IP address, a management plane home IP address, etc. of the access network device.

If the first user needs to be met, the transmission device determines that the first user needs to be met, and if the second user needs to be met, the transmission device increases the transmission resources in the first user.

1011. The control device sends a device planning request to the device planning device. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the control device receives the transmission resource, the device planning device may be sent a device planning request, where the device planning request may include SLA information of the first user, radio resources, transmission resources, and the like. The device planning request is for planning a network topology of the signal processing apparatus for the first user, etc.

Alternatively, if the device resource in the base resource may already support the first service in the second scenario and the third scenario, the control apparatus may not need to send the device planning request to the device planning apparatus. If the equipment resources in the basic resources cannot meet the first service, the control device can send an equipment planning request to the planning device.

1012. The device planning apparatus generates a network topology based on the device planning request and the device planning policy. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the device planning apparatus obtains the device planning request, the device planning policy may be obtained, and a network topology may be generated based on the device planning request and the device planning policy, according to which a field engineer may implement hardware installation, and a description of the network topology may refer to step 809 of the foregoing embodiment shown in fig. 8, which is not described herein again.

Alternatively, since the device planning strategy is for a whole network user, the device planning apparatus may also acquire the device planning strategy before receiving the device planning request.

For example, the device planning apparatus may generate an RRU topology according to the RRU and the geographic location of the antenna. The RRU topology may be used to indicate several RRU chains, several rHub, and the connection relationship between the rHub and the RRU chains.

Alternatively, the network topology may be a logical connection graph and/or a physical connection graph. Fig. 9 is an example of a physical connection diagram in a network topology.

1013. The device planning apparatus transmits the network topology to the control apparatus. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the device planning apparatus generates the network topology, the network topology is sent to the control apparatus.

1014. The control device determines whether the activation condition is satisfied, and if so, executes step 1015. This step is optional.

Alternatively, after the control device generates the network resource, it may be determined whether the activation condition is satisfied.

The activation condition may be at least one of the following:

1. the request type of the first user is not a predicted bid.

2. The request type of the first user is a deployment.

3. The first user's request type is deployment and the field engineer has confirmed.

It will be appreciated that the above-described activation conditions are merely examples, and that in practical applications, the activation conditions may include other conditions, and are not limited thereto.

I.e., if the request type of the first user is a predicted bid, step 1015 may not be performed. If the first user's request type is deployment, step 1015 is not performed if there is no confirmation by the field engineer. If the field engineer has confirmed, step 1015 may be performed.

1015. The control device sends configuration information to the access network equipment. This step is optional.

Optionally, after the control device generates the network resource, if the control device is in the first scenario or the second scenario, the control device generates configuration information based on the network resource, that is, generates a cell, allocates an ID of the cell, combines the network resource to obtain at least one of a resource of the cell, an RRU configuration cabinet, a frame, a slot number, a name, and the like. I.e. the configuration information is the configuration information used for the initial deployment of the 2B network or the deployment of the "logically independent" 2B network.

If the configuration information is the third scenario, the configuration information generated by the control device may include a cell ID, the number of cell RBs, and the like. I.e. the configuration information is RB resource group configuration.

After the control means send the configuration information to the access network device, the access network device may communicate with other network elements (other access network devices and/or core network devices, etc.).

Alternatively, the timing of the asynchronous viewing by the field engineer or user is not limited, and if the field engineer or user or the like does so, the network resources corresponding to the NSSI in the embodiment shown in fig. 5A described above are presented to them, i.e., are not perceived as internal changes.

Corresponding to the method given by the above method embodiment, the embodiment of the present application further provides a corresponding apparatus, including a module for executing the corresponding module of the above embodiment. The modules may be software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware.

Referring to FIG. 11, in one embodiment of the present application, the communication device may be an EMS, or may be a component of an EMS (e.g., a resource management device, a processor, a chip, or a chip system), and the communication device includes:

an obtaining unit 1101, configured to obtain service level agreement SLA information of a first user, where the SLA information includes a geographic area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, and the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user on the first service;

the obtaining unit 1101 is further configured to obtain a preset planning policy, where the planning policy is used to deploy network resources of the whole network user;

and the generating unit 1102 is configured to generate network resources of an access network device based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, where the access network device is used for serving the terminal device, and the network resources are used for serving the first service.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by the units in the communication device are similar to those performed in the embodiment shown in fig. 7, and will not be described here again.

In this embodiment, the obtaining unit 1101 obtains SLA information and a preset planning policy, the generating unit 1102 generates network resources based on the SLA information and the planning policy, so as to meet a network requirement of a first user on a first service, and the generating unit 1102 may generate the network resources meeting the first user requirement through the SLA information and the preset planning policy, so as to implement decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process.

Referring to fig. 12, in another embodiment of the communication device according to the present application, the communication device may be an EMS or may be a component of an EMS (e.g., a resource management device, a processor, a chip, or a chip system), and the communication device includes:

an obtaining unit 1201, configured to obtain service level agreement SLA information of a first user, where the SLA information includes a geographic area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, and the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user on the first service;

the acquiring unit 1201 is further configured to acquire a preset planning policy, where the planning policy is used to deploy network resources of the whole network user;

a generating unit 1202, configured to generate network resources of an access network device based on SLA information and a planning strategy, where the access network device is used for serving the terminal device, and the network resources are used for serving the first service.

The communication device in this embodiment further includes:

a sending unit 1203, configured to send configuration information to the access network device.

And the marking unit 1204 is used for marking the association relation between the network resource and the first user.

In this embodiment, by preparing wireless, transmission, equipment planning policies and resource pools suitable for users in the whole network in advance, on one hand, interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into planning strategies in the past, and the planning strategies can be used for deploying network resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge. On the other hand, the marking unit 1204 marks the association relationship between the user and the network resource, so that the service transmission of the previous user is not affected when the network resource is allocated to other users later.

Referring to fig. 13, in another embodiment of the communication apparatus according to the present application, the communication apparatus may be a control apparatus in an EMS, or may be a component (for example, a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the control apparatus, where the EMS includes the control apparatus, a radio planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and a device planning apparatus, and the communication apparatus includes:

an obtaining unit 1301, configured to obtain service level agreement SLA information of a first user, where the SLA information includes a geographic area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, where the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user on the first service;

A transmitting unit 1302, configured to transmit first request information to the wireless planning apparatus, where the first request information includes SLA information;

the receiving unit 1303 is configured to receive first feedback information sent by the radio planning device, where the first feedback information includes the number, the location, the spectrum, and the association between the signal processing devices, where the signal processing devices are configured to transmit a first service with the terminal device through an air interface, where the first feedback information is obtained based on the first request information and a preset radio planning policy, and the radio planning policy is configured to deploy radio resources of the whole network user;

the sending unit 1302 is further configured to send second request information to the transmission planning apparatus, where the second request information includes SLA information and first feedback information;

the receiving unit 1303 is further configured to receive second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device, where the second feedback information includes an address of a network element and a transmission bandwidth, the network element is configured to transmit a first service with an access network device, and the access network device includes a signal processing device, where the second feedback information is obtained based on second request information and a preset transmission planning policy, and the transmission planning policy is used to deploy transmission resources of all network users;

The sending unit 1302 is further configured to send third request information to the device planning apparatus, where the third request information includes SLA information, first feedback information, and second feedback information;

the receiving unit 1303 is further configured to receive third feedback information sent by the device planning apparatus, where the third feedback information includes a network topology, the network topology is used to indicate the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses, the third feedback information is obtained based on the third request information and a preset device planning policy, and the device planning policy is used to deploy device resources of the whole network user.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by the units in the communication device are similar to those performed by the control device in the embodiment shown in fig. 8 or fig. 10, and are not repeated here.

In this embodiment, by preparing wireless, transmission, equipment planning policies and resource pools suitable for users in the whole network in advance, on one hand, interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into planning strategies in the past, and the planning strategies can be used for deploying network resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Referring to fig. 14, in another embodiment of the present application, the communication device may be a control device in an EMS, or may be a component (such as a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the control device, where the EMS includes a control device, a radio planning device, a transmission planning device, and a device planning device, and the communication device includes:

an obtaining unit 1401, configured to obtain service level agreement SLA information of a first user, where the SLA information includes a geographic area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, and the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user on the first service;

a sending unit 1402, configured to send first request information to the wireless planning apparatus, where the first request information includes SLA information;

a receiving unit 1403, configured to receive first feedback information sent by a radio planning apparatus, where the first feedback information includes the number, the location, the spectrum, and the association between signal processing apparatuses, where the signal processing apparatuses are configured to transmit a first service with a terminal device through an air interface, where the first feedback information is obtained based on first request information and a preset radio planning policy, where the radio planning policy is used to deploy radio resources of a whole network user;

A sending unit 1402, configured to send second request information to the transmission planning apparatus, where the second request information includes SLA information and first feedback information;

the receiving unit 1403 is further configured to receive second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device, where the second feedback information includes an address of a network element and a transmission bandwidth, the network element is configured to transmit a first service with an access network device, and the access network device includes a signal processing device, where the second feedback information is obtained based on second request information and a preset transmission planning policy, and the transmission planning policy is used to deploy transmission resources of the whole network user;

the sending unit 1402 is further configured to send third request information to the device planning apparatus, where the third request information includes SLA information, first feedback information, and second feedback information;

the receiving unit 1403 is further configured to receive third feedback information sent by the device planning apparatus, where the third feedback information includes a network topology, the network topology is used to indicate the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between the signal processing apparatuses, the third feedback information is obtained based on the third request information and a preset device planning policy, and the device planning policy is used to deploy device resources of the whole network user.

The communication device in this embodiment further includes:

a generating unit 1404, configured to generate configuration information of the access network device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information, where the configuration information is used for the access network device to transmit the first service;

and a marking unit 1405, configured to mark an association relationship between a network resource and the first user, where the network resource includes first feedback information, second feedback information, and third feedback information.

In this embodiment, by preparing wireless, transmission, equipment planning policies and resource pools suitable for users in the whole network in advance, on one hand, interaction between operators and operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into planning strategies in the past, and the planning strategies can be used for deploying network resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge. On the other hand, the marking unit 1405 marks the association relationship between the user and the network resource, so that the service transmission of the previous user is not affected when the network resource is allocated to other users later.

Referring to fig. 15, in another embodiment of the communication apparatus according to the present application, the communication apparatus may be a radio planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, or a device planning apparatus in an EMS, or may be a component (such as a processor, a chip, or a chip system) of the radio planning apparatus, the transmission planning apparatus, or the device planning apparatus, and the EMS includes a control apparatus, the radio planning apparatus, the transmission planning apparatus, and the device planning apparatus, which are described below, respectively:

in one possible implementation, the communication device shown in fig. 15 is a wireless planning device, and the communication device includes:

a receiving unit 1501, configured to receive first request information sent by the control module, where the first request information includes service level agreement SLA information of a first user, and the SLA information includes a geographic area, the number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, where the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user for the first service;

an acquiring unit 1502, configured to acquire a preset radio planning policy, where the radio planning policy is used to deploy radio resources of a whole network user;

a generating unit 1503, configured to generate first feedback information based on the first request information and the radio planning strategy, where the first feedback information includes the number, the location, the frequency spectrum, and the association between signal processing apparatuses, and the signal processing apparatuses are configured to transmit a first service with a terminal device through an air interface;

A transmitting unit 1504, configured to transmit the first feedback information to the control device.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by the units in the communication device are similar to those performed by the wireless planning device in the embodiment shown in fig. 8 or fig. 10, and are not repeated here.

In this embodiment, by preparing a wireless planning strategy and a resource pool suitable for the whole network user in advance, on one hand, interaction between an operator and an operation and maintenance person can be reduced, and further decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the wireless planning strategy can be used for deploying wireless resources of users of the whole network, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

In another possible implementation, the communication device shown in fig. 15 is a transmission planning device, and the communication device includes:

a receiving unit 1501, configured to receive second request information sent by the control module, where the second request information includes service level agreement SLA information of the first user and first feedback information, where the SLA information includes a geographic area, a number of terminal devices, and a first service corresponding to the terminal devices, the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user for the first service, and the first feedback information includes a number, a location, a frequency spectrum, and an association between signal processing devices, where the signal processing devices are used to transmit the first service with the terminal devices through an air interface;

An obtaining unit 1502, configured to obtain a preset transmission planning policy, where the transmission planning policy is used to deploy transmission resources of users of the whole network;

a generating unit 1503, configured to generate second feedback information based on the second request information and a transmission planning policy, where the second feedback information includes an address of a network element and a transmission bandwidth, where the network element is used to transmit the first service with an access network device, and the access network device includes a signal processing apparatus;

a transmitting unit 1504, configured to transmit the second feedback information to the control device.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by the units in the communication device are similar to those performed by the transmission planning device in the embodiment shown in fig. 8 or fig. 10, and are not repeated here.

In this embodiment, by preparing a transmission planning strategy and a resource pool suitable for the whole network user in advance, on one hand, interaction between an operator and an operation and maintenance person can be reduced, and further decoupling between an operation process and an operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the transmission planning strategy can be used for deploying transmission resources of users of the whole network, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

In another possible implementation, the communication apparatus shown in fig. 15 is a device planning apparatus, including:

a receiving unit 1501, configured to receive third request information sent by the control module, where the third request information includes service level agreement SLA information of a first user, first feedback information and second feedback information, the SLA information includes a geographic area, a number of terminal devices, and first services corresponding to the terminal devices, the SLA information is used to describe a requirement of the first user for the first services, the first feedback information includes a number of signal processing devices, a location, a frequency spectrum, and an association between the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used to transmit the first services with the terminal devices through an air interface, the second feedback information includes an address and a transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used to transmit the first services with an access network device, and the access network device includes the signal processing devices;

an obtaining unit 1502, configured to obtain a preset device planning policy, where the device planning policy is used to deploy device resources of a whole network user;

a generating unit 1503, configured to generate third feedback information based on the third request information and the device planning policy, where the third feedback information includes a network topology, and the network topology is used to indicate the number of signal processing apparatuses and a connection relationship between access network devices;

A transmitting unit 1504 for transmitting the third feedback information to the control device.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by each unit in the communication apparatus are similar to those performed by the device planning apparatus in the embodiment shown in fig. 8 or fig. 10, and are not repeated here.

In this embodiment, by preparing the device planning policy and the resource pool suitable for the whole network user in advance, on one hand, interaction between the operator and the operation and maintenance personnel can be reduced, and further decoupling between the operation process and the operation and maintenance process is achieved. On the other hand, network knowledge of operators is concentrated and abstracted into a planning strategy in the past, and the equipment planning strategy can be used for deploying equipment resources of the whole network users, namely operators do not need deep network knowledge.

Referring to fig. 16, another embodiment of the communication device according to the present application may be applied to a multi-layer model, where the multi-layer model includes: the communication device comprises a user demand model, a network resource model and a network element resource model, wherein the user demand model is used for describing the demand of a user on a service, the network resource model is used for describing network resources for providing the service, the network element resource model is used for describing network element resources corresponding to the service, a first mapping relation exists between the user demand model and the network resource model, and a second mapping relation exists between the network resource model and the network element resource model, and the communication device comprises:

The establishing unit 1601 is configured to establish a first network resource identifier of the network resource model and a second network resource identifier, where the first network resource identifier is used to associate a first mapping relationship between the network resource model and the user demand model, the second network resource identifier is used to associate a second mapping relationship between the network resource model and the network element resource model, the first network resource identifier is used to manage network resources for the user, the first network resource identifier is a user perceived identifier, and the second network resource identifier is a user unaware identifier.

In this embodiment, the operations performed by the units in the communication device are similar to those performed in the embodiments shown in fig. 5A, 7, 8 and 10, and are not described here again.

In this embodiment, compared with the network resource model in the prior art, only a single identifier is provided, so that when a user manages network resources, the building unit 1601 builds two identifiers of the network resource model, and if one network resource is migrated from one resource reservation to another better resource reservation, the user does not perceive the change as long as the SLA is not worse. I.e. the first network resource identity (nsi id) and the user resource identity (Slice Profile id) seen by the user are unchanged, but the user does not perceive the changed second network resource identity (Local nsi id) and network element resource identity (Resource Group id). I.e. the user does not perceive a change in the internal implementation. Even in the migration process, two "resources reserved by the user" can serve one nsi at the same time, that is, one nsi id corresponds to two Local nsi ids, so as to ensure that the service in the migration process is not interrupted.

Referring to fig. 17, a possible schematic diagram of a communication apparatus 1700 according to the foregoing embodiment of the present application is provided, where the communication apparatus 1700 may specifically be an EMS, a resource management module, a control apparatus, a wireless planning apparatus, a transmission planning apparatus, and/or a device planning apparatus according to the foregoing embodiment, and the communication apparatus 1700 may include, but is not limited to, a processor 1701, a communication port 1702, a memory 1703, and a bus 1704, where the processor 1701 is configured to perform control processing on actions of the communication apparatus 1700 in the embodiment of the present application.

Further, the processor 1701 may be a central processing unit, a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array or other programmable logic device, a transistor logic device, a hardware component, or any combination thereof. Which may implement or perform the various exemplary logic blocks, modules and circuits described in connection with this disclosure. The processor may also be a combination that performs the function of a computation, e.g., a combination comprising one or more microprocessors, a combination of a digital signal processor and a microprocessor, and so forth. It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

It should be noted that, the communication device shown in fig. 17 may be specifically configured to implement the functions of the steps executed by the communication device in the foregoing method embodiments corresponding to fig. 5A, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 10, and implement the technical effects corresponding to the communication device, and the specific implementation manner of the communication device shown in fig. 17 may refer to the descriptions in each method embodiment corresponding to fig. 5A, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 10, which are not repeated herein.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a computer readable storage medium storing one or more computer executable instructions, where when the computer executable instructions are executed by a processor, the processor performs a method as described in a possible implementation manner of the communication device in the foregoing embodiment, where the communication device may specifically be a communication device in an embodiment of a method corresponding to fig. 5A, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 10.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product storing one or more computers, where the computer program product when executed by the processor performs a method of a possible implementation manner of the foregoing communications device, where the communications device may specifically be a communications device in the foregoing embodiments of the method corresponding to fig. 5A, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 10.

The embodiment of the application also provides a chip system which comprises a processor and is used for supporting the communication device to realize the functions related to the possible realization mode of the communication device. In one possible design, the system-on-chip may further include a memory to hold the necessary program instructions and data for the communication device. The chip system may be formed by a chip, or may include a chip and other discrete devices, where the communication device may specifically be a communication device in an embodiment of a method corresponding to the foregoing fig. 5A, fig. 7, fig. 8, and fig. 10.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit. The integrated units may be implemented in hardware or in software functional units.

The integrated units, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as stand-alone products, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in part or all of the technical solution or in part in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

Claims

1. A method of communication, the method comprising:

the method comprises the steps of obtaining Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services;

acquiring a preset planning strategy, wherein the planning strategy is used for deploying network resources of the whole network user;

generating network resources of access network equipment based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the access network equipment is used for serving the terminal equipment, and the network resources are used for serving the first service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining the position of the substrate comprises,

the network resource comprises a wireless resource, a transmission resource and a device resource, wherein the wireless resource is used by the signal processing device and the terminal device for transmitting the first service; the transmission resource is the transmission resource of the access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises the signal processing device; the equipment resources are the number of the signal processing devices and the connection relation among the signal processing devices.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

generating configuration information of the access network equipment based on the network resource, wherein the configuration information is used for transmitting the first service;

and sending the configuration information to the access network equipment.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein said generating configuration information of the access network device based on the network resources comprises:

and generating the configuration information and the installation information of the signal processing device based on the network resource.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein generating the installation information of the signal processing device based on the network resource comprises:

and if the confirmation information is received, generating an installation position of the signal processing device based on the network resource, wherein the confirmation information is used for indicating and confirming the installation information.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy comprises:

and if the geographic area does not have the basic physical resource, generating the network resource based on the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the basic physical resource is used for providing equipment resources for the service of the first service.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating network resources based on the SLA information and the planning strategy comprises:

and if the basic physical resource exists in the geographic area, generating the network resource based on the basic physical resource, marking information, the SLA information and the planning strategy, wherein the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resource and a second user, and the second user is a user using the basic physical resource to transmit a second service.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising:

and marking the association relation between the network resource and the first user.

9. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS including a control device, a radio planning device, a transmission planning device, and a device planning device, the method comprising:

the control device acquires Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, wherein the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services;

The control device sends first request information to the wireless planning device, wherein the first request information comprises the SLA information;

the control device receives first feedback information sent by the wireless planning device, wherein the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first service with the terminal equipment through an air interface, the first feedback information is obtained based on the first request information and a preset wireless planning strategy, and the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of the whole network users;

the control device sends second request information to the transmission planning device, wherein the second request information comprises the SLA information and the first feedback information;

the control device receives second feedback information sent by the transmission planning device, wherein the second feedback information comprises an address and a transmission bandwidth of a network element, the network element is used for transmitting the first service with access network equipment, the access network equipment comprises the signal processing device, the second feedback information is obtained based on the second request information and a preset transmission planning strategy, and the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of the whole network users;

The control device sends third request information to the equipment planning device, wherein the third request information comprises the SLA information, the first feedback information and the second feedback information;

the control device receives third feedback information sent by the equipment planning device, wherein the third feedback information comprises network topology, the network topology is used for indicating the number of the signal processing devices and the connection relation among the signal processing devices, the third feedback information is obtained based on the third request information and a preset equipment planning strategy, and the equipment planning strategy is used for deploying equipment resources of the whole network users.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

the control device generates configuration information of the access network equipment based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information, wherein the configuration information is used for the access network equipment to transmit the first service;

and the control device sends the configuration information to the access network equipment.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the control means generating configuration information for the access network device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information comprises:

The control device generates configuration information of the access network device and installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the control device generating the installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information, and the third feedback information, comprises:

and if the control device receives confirmation information, the control device generates installation information of the signal processing device based on the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information, wherein the confirmation information is used for indicating and confirming the installation information.

13. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein the control device sending first request information to the radio planning device, comprising:

and if the geographic area does not have the basic physical resource, the control device sends the first request information to the wireless planning device, wherein the basic physical resource is used for providing a hardware resource for serving the first service.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the control device sending the first request information to the wireless planning device comprises:

if the basic physical resource exists in the geographic area, the control device sends the first request information to the wireless planning device;

the first request information further comprises the basic physical resource and marking information, the marking information is the association relation between the basic physical resource and a second user, the second user is a user transmitting a second service by using the basic physical resource, the second request information further comprises the basic physical resource and the marking information, and the third request information further comprises the basic physical resource and the marking information.

15. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 12, further comprising:

the control device marks the association relation between network resources and the first user, wherein the network resources comprise the first feedback information, the second feedback information and the third feedback information.

16. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS including a control device, a radio planning device, a transmission planning device, and a device planning device, the method comprising:

The wireless planning device receives first request information sent by the control device, wherein the first request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal equipment and first services corresponding to the terminal equipment, and the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services;

the wireless planning device acquires a preset wireless planning strategy, wherein the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of the whole network users;

the wireless planning device generates first feedback information based on the first request information and the wireless planning strategy, wherein the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association among the signal processing devices, and the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first service with the terminal equipment through an air interface;

the wireless planning device sends the first feedback information to the control device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first request message further comprises a base physical resource for a hardware resource that serves the first service.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first request message further comprises tag information, the tag information being an association of the underlying physical resource with a second user, the second user being a user transmitting a second service using the underlying physical resource.

19. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS including a control device, a radio planning device, a transmission planning device, and a device planning device, the method comprising:

the transmission planning device receives second request information sent by the control device, the second request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user and first feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal devices and first services corresponding to the terminal devices, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number of signal processing devices, positions, frequency spectrums and correlations among the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal devices through an air interface, the first feedback information is based on the first request information and a wireless planning strategy, the first request information comprises the Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of the first user, the SLA information comprises the geographic area, the number of the terminal devices and the first services corresponding to the terminal devices, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user on the first services, and the wireless planning strategy is used for deploying wireless resources of the whole network user;

The transmission planning device acquires a preset transmission planning strategy, wherein the transmission planning strategy is used for deploying transmission resources of all network users;

the transmission planning device generates second feedback information based on the second request information and the transmission planning strategy, wherein the second feedback information comprises an address of a network element and a transmission bandwidth, the network element is used for transmitting the first service with access network equipment, and the access network equipment comprises the signal processing device;

the transmission planning device sends the second feedback information to the control device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second request message further comprises a base physical resource for a hardware resource that serves the first service.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the second request message further comprises tag information, the tag information being an association of the underlying physical resource with a second user, the second user being a user transmitting a second service using the underlying physical resource.

22. A communication method, wherein the method is applied to a network element management system EMS, the EMS including a control device, a radio planning device, a transmission planning device, and a device planning device, the method comprising:

The device planning device receives third request information sent by the control device, the third request information comprises Service Level Agreement (SLA) information of a first user, first feedback information and second feedback information, the SLA information comprises a geographic area, the number of terminal devices and first services corresponding to the terminal devices, the SLA information is used for describing the requirements of the first user for the first services, the first feedback information comprises the number, the position, the frequency spectrum and the association between the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal devices through an air interface, the second feedback information comprises addresses and transmission bandwidths of network elements, the network elements are used for transmitting the first services with access network devices, the access network devices comprise the signal processing devices, the first feedback information comprises service level agreement information of the first user based on first request information and wireless planning policies, the SLA information comprises the geographic area, the number of the terminal devices and the connections between the signal processing devices, the signal processing devices are used for transmitting the first services with the terminal devices, the second feedback information comprises addresses and transmission bandwidths of network elements, the network elements are used for transmitting the first services corresponding to the first user and the wireless planning device is used for configuring the first user resources of the wireless planning device;

The device planning device acquires a preset device planning strategy, wherein the device planning strategy is used for deploying device resources of the whole network user;

the device planning device generates third feedback information based on the third request information and the device planning strategy, wherein the third feedback information comprises network topology, and the network topology is used for indicating the number of the signal processing devices and the connection relation between the access network devices;

the equipment planning device sends the third feedback information to the control device.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the third request message further comprises a base physical resource for a hardware resource that serves the first service.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the third request message further comprises tag information, the tag information being an association of the underlying physical resource with a second user, the second user being a user transmitting a second service using the underlying physical resource.

25. A communications device comprising a processor coupled to a memory for storing a computer program or instructions for executing the computer program or instructions in the memory, causing the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or causing the method of any one of claims 9 to 15, or causing the method of any one of claims 16 to 18, or causing the method of any one of claims 19 to 21, or causing the method of any one of claims 22 to 24 to be performed.

26. A computer readable medium, having stored thereon a computer program or instructions, which when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 8, or to perform the method of any one of claims 9 to 15, or to perform the method of any one of claims 16 to 18, or to perform the method of any one of claims 19 to 21, or to perform the method of any one of claims 22 to 24.