CN101399681A - Management method, device and system for multicast programme - Google Patents

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CN101399681A
CN101399681A CNA2007100305372A CN200710030537A CN101399681A CN 101399681 A CN101399681 A CN 101399681A CN A2007100305372 A CNA2007100305372 A CN A2007100305372A CN 200710030537 A CN200710030537 A CN 200710030537A CN 101399681 A CN101399681 A CN 101399681A
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The invention discloses a method for managing a multicasting program, which comprises the following steps: establishing a conversation connection with control function equipment; and configuring the attribute of a multicasting program table by the conversation connection. The invention also discloses report executing function equipment and a multicasting system. By adopting the equipment and the system, configuration of the multicasting program table of a retail operator can be supported under a wholesale mode, thereby reducing the difficulty of developing deployment of value-added service, reducing cost for developing new service, reducing maintaining difficulty for launching the multicasting program, and being simple and easy.

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The management method of group broadcasting program, Apparatus and system
Technical field
The multicast field that the present invention relates to communicate by letter relates in particular to a kind of management method, report executing function device and multi-cast system of group broadcasting program.
Background technology
Along with business such as Streaming Media, video are carried out on internet (Internet) in succession, (Internet Protocol, IP) multicast (Multicast) technology and application beginning are fast-developing for Internet Protocol.
The IP multicast is to utilize a kind of agreement that the IP packet is sent to a plurality of destinations from a source, and the copy of information is sent to a group address, arrives all and wants to receive its recipient place.The IP multicast is the main frame set with IP data packet transmission to a formation multicast group (being multicast group), each member of multicast group can be distributed in each independently on the physical network, member's relation is dynamic in the IP multicast group, main frame also can add/withdraw from this multicast group at any time, whether multicast member relation decision main frame receives the multicast packet of giving this multicast group, is not that member's main frame of certain multicast group also can send multicast packet to this multicast group.The IP multicast can be saved Internet resources and bandwidth effectively, and the increase-volume of supervising the network and control expense alleviate the load of send server greatly, thereby high-performance ground sends information.
Run and the manageability mechanism of IP multicasting technology have also begun to be widely adopted, and control as multicast authority.Group broadcasting program (also becoming channel) management also is the important content of multicast management, control, can comprise:
Group broadcasting program adds characteristic in advance, and group broadcasting program data flow commonly used wishes to be introduced in advance specified node, is used to quicken channel and switches, and specified node is generally network edge node, as access node (Access Node, AN);
Group broadcasting program bandwidth characteristic, but the required bandwidth of this group broadcasting program of multicast admission Control Node perception are used for resource and admission control is carried out in the request of this group broadcasting program;
The online statistics of group broadcasting program, in the Internet Protocol Television field, spectators' online statistics has very important influence to an operator, and the demographics of online rating program of while can be estimated the quality/pouplarity of a group broadcasting program, the online statistics that the group broadcasting program management can be managed this group broadcasting program;
The multicast program preview characteristic, the management of group broadcasting program can directly provide the preview characteristic of this group broadcasting program to the user.
The another kind of communication technology is the access node controlling mechanism, second layer controlling mechanism (Layer 2 Control Mechanism are arranged in the prior art, L2CM) and Access Node Control Protocol (Access NodeControl Protocol, ANCP), the function device of two opposite ends wherein is provided in the access node controlling mechanism, be controlled function equipment (Controller Function, CF) and report executing function device (Reportingand/or Enforcement Function, REF), general CF is integrated in network access server (the Network Access Server with multicast controlled function, NAS) in, NAS can show as wideband network gateway (Broadband Network Gateway, BNG), Broadband Remote Access Server (Broadband RemoteAccess Server, IP border (IP Edge) equipment such as BRAS), and REF generally is integrated among the AN, AN can show as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, DSLAM), MSAN (Multi-Service Access Node, MSAN), wireless base station device (Base Station, BS), optical line terminal (Optical Line Terminal, OLT) etc., CF is by L2CM/ANCP control and management REF, as configuration of relevant parameter etc., REF is responsible for responding control/configuring request of CF, and initiatively to CF report correlation behavior information, as related port state information (line bandwidth etc.).
The configuration flow that the group broadcasting program table is arranged in existing IP multicasting technology, can be with reference to as multi-cast system schematic diagram under the wholesale pattern of the prior art of Fig. 1, wherein have generally managing and control of group broadcasting program table by belonging to retail network operator (network 1 operator), the Retail Operations merchant can pass through network management system (NetworkManagement System, NMS) and Simple Network Management Protocol (Simple Network ManagementProtocol, SNMP) management and control group broadcasting program table, as the group broadcasting program table is configured on the access node, AN carries out the control and management of multicast according to this group broadcasting program table then.
But when having wholesale pattern, see also accompanying drawing 1, network 1 is the wholesale operator of network 2, AN is that two Retail Operations merchants (network 1 and network 2) provide access, AN ownership promptly belongs to the operator (wholesale operator) of network 1, network 2 this moment (Retail Operations merchant) can not be by NMS to AN configuration group broadcasting program table, and making has increased the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed.
Summary of the invention
Embodiment of the invention technical problem to be solved is, a kind of management method, report executing function device and multi-cast system of group broadcasting program is provided, and can realize the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern.
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the embodiment of the invention has proposed a kind of management method of group broadcasting program, comprising:
And set up session connection between the controlled function equipment;
Receive the group broadcasting program table configuration request message that described controlled function equipment sends by described session connection;
According to described configuration request message, the attribute of described group broadcasting program table is configured, and group broadcasting program is carried out control and management according to the attribute of this group broadcasting program table.
Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of report executing function device, comprising:
The unit is set up in session, the session connection between foundation and the controlled function equipment;
The configuring request receiving element by described session connection, receives the configuration request message of the group broadcasting program table of described controlled function equipment transmission;
Dispensing unit disposes the attribute of described group broadcasting program table according to described configuration request message;
The control and management unit carries out control and management according to the attribute of described group broadcasting program table to group broadcasting program.
In addition, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of multi-cast system, comprises controlled function equipment, report executing function device, and described controlled function equipment comprises:
The unit is set up in first session, the session connection between foundation and the described report executing function device;
The configuring request transmitting element by described session connection, sends the configuration request message of group broadcasting program table to described report executing function device.
Described report executing function device comprises:
The unit is set up in second session, the session connection between foundation and the described controlled function equipment;
The configuring request receiving element by described session connection, receives the configuration request message that described controlled function equipment sends;
Dispensing unit disposes the attribute of described group broadcasting program table according to described configuration request message;
The control and management unit carries out control and management according to the attribute of described group broadcasting program table to group broadcasting program.
The embodiment of the invention is by setting up session connection between controlled function equipment and report executing function device, by described session connection, carry out the attribute configuration of the group broadcasting program table on the described report executing function device, thereby support the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern, reduced the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed, reduce the development cost of new business, reduced the maintenance difficulties that group broadcasting program is carried out.
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Fig. 1 is a multi-cast system schematic diagram under the wholesale pattern in the prior art;
Fig. 2 is the first embodiment schematic diagram of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the second embodiment schematic diagram of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the method schematic diagram that the multicast of the embodiment of the invention adds;
Fig. 5 is a S404 schematic flow sheet among Fig. 4;
Fig. 6 is a S503 schematic flow sheet among Fig. 5;
Fig. 7 is the method schematic diagram of the multicast preview of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 8 is a S702 schematic flow sheet among Fig. 7;
Fig. 9 is a S802 schematic flow sheet among Fig. 8;
Figure 10 is the first embodiment schematic diagram of multi-cast system of the present invention;
Figure 11 is the second embodiment schematic diagram of multi-cast system of the present invention;
Figure 12 is that the multicast of the embodiment of the invention adds module diagram;
Figure 13 is member's processing module schematic diagram of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 14 is the admission processing cell schematics of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 15 is the multicast preview module diagram of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 16 is the preview processing unit schematic diagram of the embodiment of the invention.
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The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of collocation method, report executing function device and multi-cast system of group broadcasting program, can realize realizing report executing function device configuration group broadcasting program table by session connection, thus the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of support Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern.
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the embodiment of the invention is elaborated.
Fig. 2 is the first embodiment schematic diagram of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention, and with reference to this figure, this method mainly comprises following flow process:
S201, the control session connection of between BNG and AN, setting up ANCP or L2CM, this control session is used to carry management and the control messages between BNG and the AN, as configuration request message etc.;
S202, BNG obtains the group broadcasting program table, BNG can obtain the group broadcasting program table from this locality, also can obtain this group broadcasting program table from the server that stores this group broadcasting program table, the server of programs stored table can be embodied in strategic server (Policy Server, PS), network management system server (NetworkManagement System Server, NMSS), the OSS server (Operation SurpportSystem Server, OSSS), service application service device etc.;
Wherein, the group broadcasting program table can be as shown in table 1 below:
Group broadcasting program The pre-attribute that adds Bandwidth attribute Online statistical attribute Preview attribute
224.1.0.1 200.0.0.1 Be 2,000,000 Be Be
...... ...... ...... ...... ......
225.1.*.* No 3,000,000 No Be
3eff::1 FF02::1 No 3,000,000 No No
Table 1
The attribute information that in above-mentioned group broadcasting program table table 1, comprises group broadcasting program sign and group broadcasting program, attribute comprises pre-adding attribute as shown in table 1, the bandwidth attribute of Resource Properties, online statistical attribute, preview attribute, in addition, attribute can also comprise attributes such as M-VLAN, multicast mac address, multicasting VPN, and each attribute can increase and decrease according to actual conditions.Described group broadcasting program sign comprises that multicast address, multicast source address represent that multicast address or multicast source address can be IPV4 address or IPV6 address." * " is asterisk wildcard in the above-mentioned table 1, specifically can use mask form sign in form, represents same group broadcasting program scope as 225.1.*.* and 225.1.0.0/16.There is a at least group broadcasting program table in the logical partition of an equipment/logical device/equipment;
S203, BNG send the configuration request message that includes the group broadcasting program table by the control session connection of described ANCP or L2CM to AN;
S204, after AN receives described configuration request message, carry out the configuration process of above-mentioned group broadcasting program table and attribute thereof, promptly resolve configuration request message, from described configuration request message, obtain the relevant parameter (as: AN subregion sign) of group broadcasting program table and configuration thereof, the group broadcasting program table is configured in the logical partition of equipment/logical device/equipment, promptly be provided with and be saved in the corresponding memory cell, and, carry out relevant configuration as pre-adding attribute, preview attribute etc. to the attribute that the group broadcasting program table is had;
S205, AN returns the alignment processing result of above-mentioned configuration request message to BNG, finishes the configuration of this group broadcasting program table and attribute thereof, comprises sending configuration response message;
S206, AN carries out control and management according to the attribute of the group broadcasting program table that is disposed to group broadcasting program, but the user handles broadcast, preview that the request message of group broadcasting program carries out corresponding group broadcasting program, also the data flow of group broadcasting program in the group broadcasting program table can be incorporated among the AN.
Implement first embodiment of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention as shown in Figure 2, can realize AN configuration group broadcasting program table and attribute thereof by the access node controlling mechanism, support the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern, thereby reduced the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed, reduce the development cost of new business, reduced the maintenance difficulties of operator's developing multicast business.
Fig. 3 is the second embodiment schematic diagram of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention, and with reference to this figure, this method mainly comprises following flow process:
S301, the control session connection of between IP Edge and AN, setting up ANCP or L2CM, this control session is used to carry management and the control messages between BNG and the AN, as configuration request message etc.;
S302, IP Edge obtains the group broadcasting program table, and this group broadcasting program table still can be as content as shown in the above-mentioned table 1;
S303, IP Edge send the configuration request message that includes the group broadcasting program table by the control session connection of ANCP or L2CM to AN;
After S304, AN receive described configuration request message, in configuration request message, obtain the relevant parameter of group broadcasting program table and configuration thereof, the group broadcasting program table is configured in the logical partition of equipment/logical device/equipment;
S305, AN is according to the pre-adding attribute of the group broadcasting program that comprises in the described group broadcasting program table, be configured to the multicast group that group broadcasting program data flow corresponding in the described group broadcasting program table the is introduced AN message that joins request, the described multicast group message that joins request comprises Internet Group Management Protocol (Internet Group ManagementProtocol, IGMP) report (Report) message, the multicast detectaphone is found (Multicast ListenerDiscovery, MLD) (Protocol IndependentMulticast PIM) adds message etc. for report (Report) message or independent multicast agreement;
S306, AN send the described multicast group message that joins request, and are used to notify multicast source that described group broadcasting program data flow is forwarded to AN.AN sends the described multicast group message that joins request to multicast source can also comprise that AN uses M-VLAN, multicasting VPN or the multicast mac address of group broadcasting program correspondence in the described group broadcasting program table to send the described multicast message that joins request, wherein, include M-VLAN, multicasting VPN or multicast mac address attribute in the group broadcasting program table;
S307, AN returns above-mentioned configuration request message alignment processing results messages to IP Edge;
After S308, IP Edge received described result message, the group broadcasting program table that judges whether to exist not configuration to finish if exist, then changeed and carries out S303, otherwise carries out S309;
S309 finishes the configuration of this group broadcasting program table.
S310, AN carries out control and management according to the group broadcasting program table that is disposed to group broadcasting program.
Implement second embodiment of the management method of group broadcasting program of the present invention as shown in Figure 3, following 3 effects arranged:
One can be realized AN configuration group broadcasting program table is supported the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern, thereby reduce the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed by the access node controlling mechanism, has reduced the development cost of new business;
Its two, can handle by the pre-adding of above-mentioned S305, S306, S307, the group broadcasting program that quickens the user multicast request switches;
Its three, the group broadcasting program table that can judge whether to exist not configuration to finish by S308 to group broadcasting program table configuration detection, improves the present invention more.
S206 or S310 can comprise the method that the multicast of the embodiment of the invention as shown in Figure 4 adds, and this method can be carried out following flow process:
The multicast that S401, AN receive the user message that joins request, this multicast message that joins request comprises IGMP report message, MLD report message etc.;
S402, AN resolves the described multicast message that joins request, and obtains user ID and group broadcasting program sign, wherein, user ID includes the join request port numbers etc. of message of multicast that subscriber's main station address (IP address) or AN receive, and the group broadcasting program sign comprises multicast address and/or multicast source address;
S403, AN obtains the control table of user multicast access rights according to described user ID, judge whether this user needs or have multicast access rights to this AN, when being judged as this user when having the multicast access rights or do not need user multicast joined request and carry out authorisation process when (as: not having the access rights control table), carry out S404;
S404, AN carry out described group broadcasting program multicast group member management with described user to be handled, and can comprise that AN carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member adding processing etc. to try to find out (Sooping)/agency (Proxy) pattern with this user.
As a kind of execution mode, S404 can also comprise flow process as shown in Figure 5:
S501, AN obtain the group broadcasting program table of the correspondence of local storage according to described user ID;
S502, AN is from described group broadcasting program table, search and the corresponding group broadcasting program record of described group broadcasting program sign, when searching when obtaining this group broadcasting program record, carry out S503, otherwise carry out S504, wherein search procedure can be judge described group broadcasting program sign whether with the group broadcasting program table in certain group broadcasting program coupling, or judge that whether described group broadcasting program identifies in the group broadcasting program table within each group broadcasting program scope;
S503, AN be according to the Resource Properties of group broadcasting program corresponding in the described group broadcasting program table, described multicast joined request carry out resource and admission and handle;
S504, AN stop subsequent treatment according to actual deployment.
As a kind of execution mode, S503 can also comprise flow process as shown in Figure 6:
S601, AN obtain the Resource Properties of the corresponding group broadcasting program of described group broadcasting program sign, and described resource comprises bandwidth, time delay, packet loss etc.;
S602, AN judge whether the multicast surplus resources satisfies described group broadcasting program resource requirement, carry out S603 if meet the demands, otherwise carry out S604.Specifically judge as AN whether the multicast remaining bandwidth of user port satisfies the bandwidth of the group broadcasting program that the user joins request (being the bandwidth that the multicast total bandwidth of user port deducts the group broadcasting program whether current gained of occupied bandwidth remaining bandwidth join request more than or equal to the user), and the bandwidth of the group broadcasting program that the user joins request derives from the bandwidth attribute of group broadcasting program correspondence in the group broadcasting program table;
S603, AN with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member with this user and adds and handle, and specifically can comprise according to described user ID, upgrade this group broadcasting program multicast group member management table, and dispose the multicast packet stream forwarding list of this group broadcasting program;
S604, AN stop subsequent treatment according to actual deployment.
As a kind of execution mode, can also comprise following flow process among the S404:
AN obtains the group broadcasting program table of the correspondence of local storage according to described user ID;
AN is from described group broadcasting program table, search and the corresponding group broadcasting program record of described group broadcasting program sign, multicast source address according to the group broadcasting program of group broadcasting program record carries out the conversion of ASM (Any-Source Multicast) to SSM (specific source multicasting), comprises the conversion of report (Report) message of IGMP V2 to IGMP V3 report message;
AN carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member adding processing to try to find out (Sooping)/agency (Proxy) pattern with this user.
As a kind of execution mode, S404 can also comprise following flow process:
AN obtains the group broadcasting program table of the correspondence of local storage according to described user ID;
AN with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member with this user and adds and handle, comprise this group broadcasting program multicast group member management table, judge whether need to continue the forwarding multicasting group message that joins request, when trying to find out as AN, the whole forwarding multicasting groups of the AN message that joins request, when AN acts on behalf of, the multicast group of transmitting first member message that joins request;
AN detects and to obtain needing to transmit this user multicast message that joins request, AN is from described group broadcasting program table, search and group broadcasting program record that described group broadcasting program sign is corresponding, then use M-VLAN, multicasting VPN or the multicast mac address attribute of described group broadcasting program correspondence to transmit the described multicast message that joins request.
In order in time to obtain the satisfaction of spectators to each group broadcasting program, can AN with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this user after this group broadcasting program multicast member adds the step of handling the online situation of adding up described group broadcasting program multicast member.
As a kind of execution mode, we have increased the handling process of multicast preview, promptly after S403, have increased the method flow of the multicast preview of the embodiment of the invention as shown in Figure 7:
S701 does not have the multicast access rights when being judged as described user, or when searching multicast access rights less than this corresponding user of this group broadcasting program sign, AN obtains the group broadcasting program table of described user ID correspondence;
S702, AN carries out the preview setting according to the preview attribute of described group broadcasting program.
As a kind of execution mode, S702 also can specifically comprise flow process as shown in Figure 8:
S801, AN is according to the preview attribute of described group broadcasting program, judge whether described user is effective to the preview request of described group broadcasting program, when this is judged as preview request when effective, execution in step S802, otherwise carry out S803, concrete, AN can judge that whether time to this preview request time interval of this this group broadcasting program of user's preview satisfy the time interval requirement that presets, when satisfying this when requiring in time interval that presets, this user is effective to the preview request of this group broadcasting program, and wherein, the time interval that presets derives from the preview attribute of this group broadcasting program;
S802, AN with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member preview with the user and adds and handle;
S803, AN stop subsequent treatment according to actual deployment.
As a kind of execution mode, S802 can also comprise flow process as shown in Figure 9:
S901, AN upgrades the multicast group member management table of described group broadcasting program according to described user ID, and disposes the multicast packet stream forwarding list of described group broadcasting program;
S902 is provided for controlling the regular time parameter of user to the described multicast program preview time;
S903 is controlled at that described user's preview timing expires or stops preview when overtime, comprises described multicast group member management table of deletion and multicast packet stream forwarding list, to stop the data flow of forwarding multicasting program.
In addition, S702 specifically comprises outside as shown in Figure 8 the flow process, can also comprise:
When the described preview request that is judged as when effective, AN judges whether need to transmit the described user multicast message that joins request, the message if this user multicast of judgement needs forwarding joins request, then use VLAN, the VPN of described group broadcasting program table correspondence or multicast mac address to transmit the described multicast message that joins request, wherein, include M-VLAN, multicasting VPN or multicast mac address attribute in the group broadcasting program table.
Implement as Fig. 4 to Fig. 9 embodiment of the invention, can better improve the user and carry out the method flow that multicast adds.
Correspondingly, corresponding above-mentioned each method embodiment, the multi-cast system to the embodiment of the invention describes below, and the while also is illustrated the controlled function equipment and the report executing function device of the embodiment of the invention.
Figure 10 is the first embodiment schematic diagram of multi-cast system of the present invention, this multi-cast system includes BRAS101, AN102, wherein BRAS101 comprises that first session is set up unit 1011, obtained unit 1012, configuring request transmitting element 1013, AN102 comprises that second session sets up unit 1021, configuring request receiving element 1022, dispensing unit 1023, control and management unit 1024, each Elementary Function such as following:
Unit 1011 is set up in first session, set up with described AN102 between ANCP or L2CM control session connection, this control session is used to carry management and the control messages between BRAS101 and the AN102, as configuration request message etc.;
Obtain unit 1012, obtain the group broadcasting program table, can obtain the group broadcasting program table from this locality, also can obtain this group broadcasting program table from the server that stores this group broadcasting program table, the server of programs stored table can be embodied in PS, NMSS, OSSS, service application service device etc., and the group broadcasting program table still can be as content as shown in the above-mentioned table 1;
Configuring request transmitting element 1013 by described ANCP or L2CM control session connection, sends the configuration request message that comprises the group broadcasting program table to AN102;
Unit 1021 is set up in second session, the control session connection between foundation and the BRAS101, and this control session connection is corresponding with the control session connection that foundation in the unit 1011 is set up in first session;
Configuring request receiving element 1022 by described ANCP or L2CM control session connection, receives the configuration request message that BRAS101 sends;
Dispensing unit 1023, dispose described group broadcasting program table and attribute thereof according to described configuration request message, can in configuration request message, obtain the relevant parameter (as: AN subregion sign) of group broadcasting program table and configuration thereof, the group broadcasting program table is configured in the logical partition of equipment/logical device/equipment, and carry out the group broadcasting program epiphase and close attribute, configuration as pre-adding attribute, preview attribute etc., can also return the response message of above-mentioned configuration request message to BRAS101, finish the configuration of this group broadcasting program table and attribute thereof;
Control and management unit 1024, attribute according to the group broadcasting program table that is disposed carries out control and management to group broadcasting program, but the user handles broadcast, preview that the request message of group broadcasting program carries out corresponding group broadcasting program, also the data flow of group broadcasting program in the group broadcasting program table can be incorporated among the AN102.
Implement first embodiment of multi-cast system of the present invention as shown in figure 10, can realize AN configuration group broadcasting program table by the control conversation mechanism, support the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern, thereby reduced the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed, reduce the development cost of new business, reduced the maintenance difficulties of operator's developing multicast business.
Figure 11 is the second embodiment schematic diagram of multi-cast system of the present invention, this multi-cast system includes BNG111, AN112, wherein BNG111 comprise that first session is set up unit 1111, obtained unit 1112, configuring request transmitting element 1113, detecting unit 1114, AN112 comprises that second session sets up unit 1121, configuring request receiving element 1122, dispensing unit 1123, control and management unit 1124, control and management unit 1124 comprises first resolution unit 11241, adds unit 11242, each Elementary Function such as following in advance:
Unit 1111 is set up in first session, set up with described AN112 between ANCP or L2CM control session connection, this control session is used to carry management and the control messages between BAN111 and the AN112, as configuration request message etc.;
Obtain unit 1112, obtain the group broadcasting program table, can obtain the group broadcasting program table from this locality, also can obtain this group broadcasting program table from the server that stores this group broadcasting program table, the server of programs stored table can be embodied in PS, NMSS, OSSS, service application service device etc., and the group broadcasting program table still can be as content as shown in the above-mentioned table 1;
Configuring request transmitting element 1113 by described ANCP or L2CM control session connection, sends the configuration request message that comprises the group broadcasting program table to AN112;
Detecting unit 1114 detects whether there is the group broadcasting program table that has not disposed, if there is the group broadcasting program table that has not disposed, then triggers described configuring request transmitting element 1113 and works on;
Unit 1121 is set up in second session, the control session connection between foundation and the BNG111, and this control session connection is corresponding with the control session connection that foundation in the unit 1111 is set up in first session;
Configuring request receiving element 1122 by described control session connection, receives the configuration request message that BNG111 sends;
Dispensing unit 1123, dispose described group broadcasting program table according to described configuration request message, can in configuration request message, obtain the relevant parameter (as: AN subregion sign) of group broadcasting program table and configuration thereof, the group broadcasting program table is configured in the logical partition of equipment/logical device/equipment, can also return the response message of above-mentioned configuration request message to BNG111, finish the configuration of this group broadcasting program table;
First resolution unit 11241 is resolved the pre-adding attribute that obtains group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
The pre-unit 11242 that adds, resolve the pre-adding attribute that obtains according to described first resolution unit 11231, send to multicast source and to be used for the group broadcasting program data flow that described group broadcasting program table is corresponding and to introduce the multicast group of the AN112 message that joins request, this multicast group message that joins request can be IGMP report message, MLD report message or PIM and adds message etc.
Implement second embodiment of multi-cast system of the present invention as shown in figure 11, following 3 effects arranged:
One can be realized AN configuration group broadcasting program table is supported the configuration of the group broadcasting program table of Retail Operations merchant under wholesale pattern, thereby reduce the difficulty that the value-added service exploitation is disposed by the access node controlling mechanism, has reduced the development cost of new business;
Its two, can handle pre-the adding by above-mentioned pre-adding unit 11232, the group broadcasting program that quickens the user multicast request switches;
Its three, the group broadcasting program table that can judge whether to exist not configuration to finish by detecting unit 1114 to group broadcasting program table configuration detection, improves the present invention more.
In above-mentioned Figure 10, multi-cast system shown in Figure 11, the control and management unit can comprise that the multicast of the embodiment of the invention as shown in figure 12 adds module, and this multicast adds module and comprises:
The user multicast receiving element 121 that joins request receives the user multicast that carries user ID, the group broadcasting program sign message that joins request, and this user multicast message that joins request can be IGMP report message, MLD report message etc.;
Judging unit 122, according to described user ID and the control table of user multicast access rights, judge whether this user needs or have multicast access rights of this report being carried out function device, specifically can be by resolving the described user multicast message that joins request, obtain user ID, group broadcasting program sign, this user ID includes the join request port numbers etc. of message of multicast that subscriber's main station address, AN receive, and the group broadcasting program sign comprises multicast address and/or multicast source address;
Member's processing unit 123, when described judging unit 122 judged results have the multicast access rights for this user or do not need user multicast joined request and carry out authorisation process when (as: not having the access rights control table), described user is carried out described group broadcasting program multicast group member management handle.
As a kind of execution mode, member's processing unit 123 can comprise unit module as shown in figure 13:
Group broadcasting program table acquiring unit 131 according to described user ID, obtains the group broadcasting program table of the correspondence configured from this locality;
Search unit 132, from described group broadcasting program table, search and the corresponding group broadcasting program record of described group broadcasting program sign, can be judge described group broadcasting program sign whether with the group broadcasting program table in certain group broadcasting program coupling, or judge that described group broadcasting program sign is whether in the group broadcasting program table within each group broadcasting program scope;
Second resolution unit 133 when searching unit 132 and obtain described group broadcasting program record, is resolved and is obtained the Resource Properties that described group broadcasting program writes down corresponding group broadcasting program;
The Resource Properties that obtains is resolved according to described second resolution unit 133 in admission processing unit 134, described user's multicast group is joined request carry out resource and admission and handle.
As a kind of execution mode, admission processing unit 133 specifically can comprise unit module as shown in figure 14:
Resource judgment unit 141, when searching the unit and obtain described group broadcasting program record, Resource Properties according to the corresponding group broadcasting program of described group broadcasting program sign, judge whether the multicast surplus resources satisfies described group broadcasting program resource requirement, for example, when the group broadcasting program resource is bandwidth, whether the multicast remaining bandwidth of judging user port satisfies the bandwidth of the group broadcasting program that the user joins request, and promptly the multicast total bandwidth of user port deducts the current gained of occupied bandwidth remaining bandwidth and whether can satisfy described group broadcasting program bandwidth requirement;
Multicast member performance element 142, if described resource judgment unit 141 is judged as this multicast surplus resources when satisfying the group broadcasting program resource requirement, with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this group broadcasting program multicast member with this user and adds and handle, specifically can comprise according to described user ID, upgrade this group broadcasting program multicast group member management table, and dispose the multicast packet stream forwarding list of this group broadcasting program.
As a kind of execution mode, described member's processing unit 123 can also comprise the conversion process module, and this conversion process module comprises:
The 3rd resolution unit is resolved the multicast source address that obtains with according to the corresponding group broadcasting program of described user ID;
Conversion processing unit is resolved the multicast source address obtain according to the 3rd resolution unit, carries out the join request Any-Source Multicast of message of multicast and handles to specific source multicasting.
In order in time to obtain the satisfaction of spectators to each group broadcasting program, can in the control and management unit, increase by a statistics unit, can multicast member performance element 142 with try to find out/proxy mode carries out this user after this group broadcasting program multicast member adds the step of handling the online situation of adding up described group broadcasting program multicast member.
As a kind of execution mode, we on the illustrated AN of Figure 12, the multicast preview module of the control and management unit further increase embodiment of the invention as shown in figure 15, this multicast preview module comprises:
The 4th resolution unit 151 is resolved the preview attribute that obtains the corresponding group broadcasting program of described user ID;
Preview processing unit 152, when being judged as described user, described judging unit 122 do not have the multicast access rights, or when searching multicast access rights less than this corresponding user of this group broadcasting program sign, after obtaining user's preview request message, according to described the 4th resolution unit 151 gained preview attribute this user is disposed preview and handle.
As a kind of execution mode, preview processing unit 152 also can specifically comprise unit module as shown in figure 16:
Validity judging unit 161, when described judging unit 122 is judged as described user when not having the multicast access rights, preview attribute according to this group broadcasting program, judge whether described user is effective to the preview request of described group broadcasting program, can judge that whether time to this preview request time interval of this this group broadcasting program of user's preview satisfy the time interval requirement that presets, when satisfying this when requiring in time interval that presets, this user is effective to the preview request of this group broadcasting program, wherein, the time interval that presets derives from the preview attribute of this group broadcasting program;
Preview adds processing unit 162, when described validity judging unit 161 is judged as preview request when effective, with try to find out/proxy mode carries out described group broadcasting program multicast member preview with described user and adds and handle, this preview adds processing unit 162 and can specifically comprise:
Updating block upgrades the multicast group member management table of described group broadcasting program according to described user ID;
Transmit dispensing unit, dispose the multicast packet stream forwarding list of described group broadcasting program;
Regularly unit 163 is set, is provided for controlling the regular time parameter of user the described multicast program preview time;
Timing Processing unit 164 is controlled at that described user's preview timing expires or stops preview when overtime, comprises described multicast group member management table of deletion and multicast packet stream forwarding list, to stop the data flow of forwarding multicasting program.
In addition, AN can also comprise:
Transmit the judgment processing unit, judge whether need to transmit the described user multicast message that joins request, if judge to need transmit this user multicast message that joins request, then use multicast virtual local area network, the multicasting virtual private network of described group broadcasting program Table Properties correspondence or use described multicast Media Access Control address to transmit the described multicast message that joins request.
Implement as Figure 12 to Figure 17 embodiment of the invention, can better improve the user and carry out the method flow that multicast adds.
In addition, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of flow process that realizes in the foregoing description method, be to instruct relevant hardware to finish by program, described program can be stored in the computer read/write memory medium, this program can comprise the flow process as the embodiment of above-mentioned each side method when carrying out.Wherein, described storage medium can be magnetic disc, CD, read-only storage memory body (Read-Only Memory, ROM) or at random store memory body (Radom Access Memory, RAM) etc.
The above is a preferred implementation of the present invention; should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, under the prerequisite that does not break away from the principle of the invention; can also make some improvements and modifications, these improvements and modifications also are considered as protection scope of the present invention.

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1, a kind of management method of group broadcasting program is characterized in that, comprising:
Set up session connection with controlled function equipment;
Receive the group broadcasting program table configuration request message that described controlled function equipment sends by described session connection;
According to described configuration request message, the attribute of described group broadcasting program table is configured, and group broadcasting program is carried out control and management according to the attribute of this group broadcasting program table.
2, the management method of group broadcasting program as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, receives in this method before the group broadcasting program table configuration request message of described controlled function equipment by described session connection transmission, also comprises:
Described controlled function equipment obtains described group broadcasting program table.
3, the management method of group broadcasting program as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that, the group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table has pre-adding attribute, Resource Properties or preview attribute at least;
Then described attribute according to this group broadcasting program table comprises the step that group broadcasting program carries out control and management: according to described pre-adding attribute, Resource Properties or preview attribute group broadcasting program is carried out corresponding control and treatment.
4, the management method of group broadcasting program as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, described control and treatment of carrying out correspondence comprises:
When the group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table has pre-adding attribute,, send the multicast group message that joins request to multicast source according to the pre-adding attribute of group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
When the group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table has Resource Properties,, join request according to user's multicast and to carry out resource and admission and handle according to the Resource Properties of group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
When the group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table has preview attribute,, join request according to this user's multicast and to carry out the preview setting according to the preview attribute of group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table.
5, the management method of group broadcasting program as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, when having described preview attribute in the described group broadcasting program, joins request according to this user's multicast and to carry out the preview setting and comprise:
When the user is effective to the preview request of described group broadcasting program, according to described preview attribute, to this user upgrade described group broadcasting program the multicast group member management table, dispose the multicast packet stream forwarding list of this group broadcasting program or be provided for controlling the regular time parameter of described user the described multicast program preview time.
6, the management method of group broadcasting program as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, describedly according to this group broadcasting program table group broadcasting program is carried out control and management and is:
Multicast source address according to group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table carries out the conversion process of Any-Source Multicast to specific source multicasting.
7, a kind of report executing function device is characterized in that, comprising:
The unit is set up in session, the session connection between foundation and the controlled function equipment;
The configuring request receiving element by described session connection, receives the configuration request message of the group broadcasting program table of described controlled function equipment transmission;
Dispensing unit disposes the attribute of described group broadcasting program table according to described configuration request message;
The control and management unit carries out control and management according to the attribute of described group broadcasting program table to group broadcasting program.
8, report executing function device as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that, described control and management unit comprises:
First resolution unit is resolved the pre-adding attribute that obtains group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
The pre-unit that adds according to the pre-adding attribute of described group broadcasting program, sends the multicast group message that joins request to multicast source.
9, report executing function device as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that, described control and management unit comprises:
Second resolution unit is resolved the Resource Properties that obtains group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
The admission processing unit according to the Resource Properties of group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table, joins request to user's multicast group and to carry out resource and admission and handle.
10, report executing function device as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that, described control and management unit comprises:
The 3rd resolution unit is resolved the preview attribute that obtains group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
The preview processing unit according to the preview attribute of group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table, joins request according to user's multicast group and to carry out the preview setting.
11, report executing function device as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that, described control and management unit comprises:
The 4th resolution unit is resolved the multicast source address that obtains group broadcasting program in the described group broadcasting program table;
Conversion processing unit according to described multicast source address, carries out multicast and joins request the Any-Source Multicast of message to the conversion process of specific source multicasting.
12, a kind of multi-cast system comprises controlled function equipment, report executing function device, it is characterized in that, described controlled function equipment comprises:
The unit is set up in first session, the session connection between foundation and the described report executing function device;
The configuring request transmitting element by described session connection, sends the configuration request message of group broadcasting program table to described report executing function device.
Described report executing function device comprises:
The unit is set up in second session, the session connection between foundation and the described controlled function equipment;
The configuring request receiving element by described session connection, receives the configuration request message that described controlled function equipment sends;
Dispensing unit disposes the attribute of described group broadcasting program table according to described configuration request message;
The control and management unit carries out control and management according to the attribute of described group broadcasting program table to group broadcasting program.
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