Based on many boards LTE gateway processes method and system of ATCA hardware
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes method and system based on ATCA hardware.
Background technology
Small Cell refers to the low power access points being operated in licensed band, is managed and have based on Edge intelligence feature by operator.Small Cell comes from Femtocell (the flying honeycomb) technology being initially home interior, extend to enterprise Picocell (cellulor), city Metrocell (macrocellular) and Microcell (microcellulor) now, family, enterprise and city and rural public domain can be helped to improve the covering of cellular network, capacity and application, improve user quality, reduce the load of macro base station.
The main frequency range of the LTE technology of 4G network is distributed in 2GHZ, is be operated in " high frequency " relative to 3G network, so the coverage of 4G network will be not equal to before under identical base station number condition.Except reasonably utilizing room subsystem to carry out except the indoor network coverage, the extensive application of Small Cell networking technology is also a kind of behave of key.Small Cell networking network element structure roughly as shown in Figure 1.
In Fig. 1, insecure link represents the link under safeguard protection, and Operator ' s core network represents the core network of Mobile Network Operator.As can be seen from Figure 1, the little base-station gateway (HeNBGW) of LTE Small Cell security gateway (SeGW) or LTE Small Cell is all an aggregation gateway equipment.Telecommunication carrier networks is a catenet normally, and be that quantity or the quantity of mobile terminal UE of little base station HeNB equipment is all very huge, this just requires that SeGW and HeNBGW possesses very powerful handling property.
LTE Small Cell gateway product (SeGW and HeNBGW) that the exploitation of current telecommunication apparatus manufacturer manufactures is veneer morphologies substantially, or single service processing board form in ATCA frame wherein, and the service processing board in ATCA frame is independently each other, each business board can independent process E-Packet, without any information interaction between each business board, the handling property of gateway product and capacity can be subject to the restriction of single CPU processor performance.The network equipment products C PU processor of current main flow is 10Gbps platform, also has the 40Gbps platform of part.Go for the gateway product higher than single CPU processor performance, need dispose and safeguard multiple stage gateway product equipment.
Wherein, LTE:Long Term Evolution, Long Term Evolution, being the Long Term Evolution of the universal mobile telecommunications system technical standard that 3GPP formulates, is the access protocol standard of forth generation mobile communication system.
ATCA:Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture, advanced telecommunications computing platform standard, defines the easily extensible hardware architecture with extensively compatibility based on modular construction.
Small Cell: the small cell base station of mobile radio communication covers networking mode, and base station equipment is wherein low-power consumption, and radiofrequency signal coverage is generally between 10 meters to 200 meters.
UE: the subscriber terminal equipment of mobile communication, such as mobile phone etc.
The little base station equipment of family under H (e) NB:LTE technical standard in mobile network, feature is low-power consumption, and radiofrequency signal coverage is generally between 10 meters to 200 meters.
Security gateway equipment under SeGW:LTE Small Cell networking, for thousands of H (e) NB device security access to mobile network provide certification and encryption to support.
Little base-station gateway equipment under H (e) NB-GW:LTE Small Cell networking, for thousands of H (e) NB equipment access mobile networks provide the convergence of signaling link and distribution to support.
Little base station network management system under H (e) MS:LTE Small Cell networking, provides administration configuration interface, the functions such as monitoring and statistic gathering.
AAA Server/HSS: the safety certification authority charge system of mobile subscriber's access.
MODID: the module numbering of exchange chip, searches certain concrete block exchange chip time stacking for polylith exchange chip.
Higig: refer to a kind of universal serial bus interconnect scheme and agreement, may be used for polylith exchange chip stacking.
Summary of the invention
One of the technical problem to be solved in the present invention, be to provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes method based on ATCA hardware, each business board can be intercomed mutually, increases the forwarding data ability of gateway, and the reliability adding product reduce product realize cost.
One of the present invention is achieved in that a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes method based on ATCA hardware, this method need provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway, described many boards LTE gateway comprises a master control borad, power board and a plurality of business board, comprises the steps:
Step 10, be connected in network by many boards LTE gateway, power board receives message, analyzes type of message, if message is IP message, enters step 20, otherwise, E-Packet to master control borad, enter step 30;
Step 20, business board receive IP message, then send directionally to business board according to load-balancing algorithm, and mate with the information in the forwarding cache information table in business board according to the information in IP message, if coupling, turns transmitting IP packet, otherwise, this IP message is sent to master control borad, enters step 30;
Step 30, master control borad receive message, if message is IP message, then carry out complete trails forwarding to IP message, and by study to forwarding cache synchronizing information give in the forwarding cache information table in each business board, enter step 40, if message is not IP message, master control borad processes message;
Step 40, master control borad by load-balancing algorithm by IP message directive sending to business board, business board carries out turning transmitting IP packet according to the information in cache information table.
Further, described master control borad comprises master control borad processor and master control exchange chip, each described business board comprises a business board processor and operation exchange chip, for master control borad processor, master control exchange chip, business board processor and operation exchange chip distribute numbering respectively, forward the packet to specified services plate or master control borad according to the target designation of message and stacking agreement.
Further, each described business board also comprises an operational processor, described load-balancing algorithm concrete steps are: the message data of certain physical port is distributed to certain business board bound in a dynamic fashion, when the message data amount entering power board is greater than the bandwidth capacity of a physical port, then remaining message data is distributed to next physical port and is tied to corresponding business board, by that analogy, until data allocations is complete.
Further, described power board comprises a plurality of physical port and the first exchange chip, described dynamical fashion is: collect power board physical port information and business board information and monitor the Link-UP event of power board physical port, if first physical port is in active state, then the message data that first physical port enters is tied to first piece of business board; If first physical port is inactive, then continue the active state of checking second physical port; The like, the message data of the physical port of all activities, be tied on the corresponding service plate of system.
Further, described many boards LTE gateway also comprises ATCA cabinet, and described master control borad, a plurality of business board and power board are interconnected by ATCA cabinet.
Further, described forwarding cache information comprises: five critical fielies of data flow, corresponding down hop adjoin list item, corresponding IP layer service quality priority, the NAT transitional information of correspondence, corresponding Ipsec tunnel encapsulation mode, corresponding IPsec encrypted decryption key, corresponding statistics speed limit data and corresponding transmission service port.
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention two, is to provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes system based on ATCA hardware, each business board can be intercomed mutually, increases the forwarding data ability of gateway, and reduces client cost.
The present invention's two is achieved in that a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes system based on ATCA hardware, native system need provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway, described many boards LTE gateway comprises a master control borad, power board and a plurality of business board, comprises as lower module:
Analyze message module, be connected in network by many boards LTE gateway, power board receives message, analyzes type of message, if message is IP message, enters step business board processing module, otherwise, E-Packet to master control borad, enter master control borad processing module;
Business board processing module, business board receives IP message, then send directionally to business board according to load-balancing algorithm, and mate with the information in the forwarding cache information table in business board according to the information in IP message, if coupling, turns transmitting IP packet, otherwise, this IP message is sent to master control borad, enters master control borad processing module;
Master control borad processing module, master control borad receives message, if message is IP message, then complete trails forwarding is carried out to IP message, and by study to forwarding cache synchronizing information give in the forwarding cache information table in each business board, enter message processing module (MPM), if message is not IP message, master control borad processes message;
Message processing module (MPM), master control borad by load-balancing algorithm by IP message directive sending to business board, business board carries out turning transmitting IP packet according to the information in cache information table.
Further, described master control borad comprises master control borad processor and master control exchange chip, each described business board comprises a business board processor and operation exchange chip, for master control borad processor, master control exchange chip, business board processor and operation exchange chip distribute numbering respectively, forward the packet to specified services plate or master control borad according to the target designation of message and stacking agreement.
Further, each described business board also comprises an operational processor, described load-balancing algorithm concrete steps are: the message data of certain physical port is distributed to certain business board bound in a dynamic fashion, when the message data amount entering power board is greater than the bandwidth capacity of a physical port, then remaining message data is distributed to next physical port and is tied to corresponding business board, by that analogy, until data allocations is complete.
Further, described power board comprises a plurality of physical port and the first exchange chip, described dynamical fashion is: collect power board physical port information and business board information and monitor the Link-UP event of power board physical port, if first physical port is in active state, then the message data that first physical port enters is tied to first piece of business board; If first physical port is inactive, then continue the active state of checking second physical port; The like, the message data of the physical port of all activities, be tied on the corresponding service plate of system.
Further, described many boards LTE gateway also comprises ATCA cabinet, and described master control borad, a plurality of business board and power board are interconnected by ATCA cabinet.
Further, described forwarding cache information comprises: five critical fielies of data flow, corresponding down hop adjoin list item, corresponding IP layer service quality priority, the NAT transitional information of correspondence, corresponding Ipsec tunnel encapsulation mode, corresponding IPsec encrypted decryption key, corresponding statistics speed limit data and corresponding transmission service port.
Tool of the present invention has the following advantages:
Effect one, realize the little base station access network of the LTE Smallcell of complete machine many boards unified management parallel processing and close product, make it more easy to use.
Effect two, because business board business forwarding cache synchronizing information forms mutual redundancy backup, improve the reliability of system and product, avoid individual business board hardware fault to cause network interruption.
Effect three, dynamically can carry out dilatation or power-save operation to gateway product according to forwarding loading condition and electric power energy service condition, business board can hot plug, realizes flexible extendible gateway product.
Accompanying drawing explanation
The present invention is further illustrated in conjunction with the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is the networking schematic diagram of LTE SmallCell.
Fig. 2 is business processing flow figure of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is dynamic binding flow chart of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is complete machine logical construction schematic diagram of the present invention.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 2, a kind of many boards LTE gateway processes method based on ATCA hardware, this method need provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway, described many boards LTE gateway comprises a master control borad, power board and a plurality of business board, described many boards LTE gateway also comprises ATCA cabinet, described master control borad, a plurality of business board and power board are interconnected by ATCA cabinet, comprise the steps:
Step 10, be connected in network by many boards LTE gateway, power board receives message, analyzes type of message, if message is IP message, enters step 20, otherwise, E-Packet to master control borad, enter step 30;
Step 20, business board receives IP message, then send directionally to business board according to load-balancing algorithm, and mate with the information in the forwarding cache information table in business board according to the information in IP message, if coupling, turns transmitting IP packet, otherwise, this IP message is sent to master control borad, enter step 30, described forwarding cache information comprises: five critical fielies (i.e. source IP of data flow, object IP, transport layer protocol type, source port, destination interface), corresponding down hop adjoins list item, corresponding IP layer service quality priority, corresponding NAT transitional information, corresponding Ipsec tunnel encapsulation mode, corresponding IPsec encrypted decryption key, corresponding statistics speed limit data and corresponding transmission service port,
Step 30, master control borad receive message, if message is IP message, then carry out complete trails forwarding to IP message, and by study to forwarding cache synchronizing information give in the forwarding cache information table in each business board, enter step 40, if message is not IP message, master control borad processes message;
Step 40, master control borad by load-balancing algorithm by IP message directive sending to business board, business board carries out turning transmitting IP packet according to the information in cache information table.
In processing method of the present invention, described master control borad comprises master control borad processor and master control exchange chip, each described business board comprises a business board processor and operation exchange chip, for master control borad processor, master control exchange chip, business board processor and operation exchange chip distribute numbering respectively, forward the packet to specified services plate or master control borad according to the target designation of message and stacking agreement.
As shown in Figure 3, in processing method of the present invention, each described business board also comprises an operational processor, described load-balancing algorithm concrete steps are: the message data of certain physical port is distributed to certain business board bound in a dynamic fashion, when the message data amount entering power board is greater than the bandwidth capacity of a physical port, then remaining message data is distributed to next physical port and is tied to corresponding business board, by that analogy, until data allocations is complete.
In processing method of the present invention, power board comprises a plurality of physical port and the first exchange chip, described dynamical fashion is: collect power board physical port information and business board information (the i.e. number of collection power board physical port, and be numbered for each physical port, collect business board information and be collection business board number, and be numbered for each business board, be convenient to pairing below) and monitor the Link-UP event of power board physical port, if first physical port is in active state, then the message data that first physical port enters is tied to first piece of business board, if first physical port is inactive, then continue the active state of checking second physical port, the like, the message data of the physical port of all activities, be tied on the corresponding service plate of system.
The present invention is based on many boards LTE gateway processes system of ATCA hardware, native system need provide a kind of many boards LTE gateway, described many boards LTE gateway comprises a master control borad, power board and a plurality of business board, described many boards LTE gateway also comprises ATCA cabinet, described master control borad, a plurality of business board and power board are interconnected by ATCA cabinet, comprise as lower module:
Analyze message module, be connected in network by many boards LTE gateway, power board receives message, analyzes type of message, if message is IP message, enters step business board processing module, otherwise, E-Packet to master control borad, enter master control borad processing module;
Business board processing module, business board receives IP message, then send directionally to business board according to load-balancing algorithm, and mate with the information in the forwarding cache information table in business board according to the information in IP message, if coupling, turns transmitting IP packet, otherwise, this IP message is sent to master control borad, enter master control borad processing module, described forwarding cache information comprises: five critical fielies (i.e. source IP of data flow, object IP, transport layer protocol type, source port, destination interface), corresponding down hop adjoins list item, corresponding IP layer service quality priority, corresponding NAT transitional information, corresponding Ipsec tunnel encapsulation mode, corresponding IPsec encrypted decryption key, corresponding statistics speed limit data and corresponding transmission service port,
Master control borad processing module, master control borad receives message, if message is IP message, then complete trails forwarding is carried out to IP message, and by study to forwarding cache synchronizing information give in the forwarding cache information table in each business board, enter message processing module (MPM), if message is not IP message, master control borad processes message;
Message processing module (MPM), master control borad by load-balancing algorithm by IP message directive sending to business board, business board carries out turning transmitting IP packet according to the information in cache information table.
In treatment system of the present invention, master control borad comprises master control borad processor and master control exchange chip, each described business board comprises a business board processor and operation exchange chip, for master control borad processor, master control exchange chip, business board processor and operation exchange chip distribute numbering respectively, forward the packet to specified services plate or master control borad according to the target designation of message and stacking agreement.
In treatment system of the present invention, each described business board also comprises an operational processor, described load-balancing algorithm concrete steps are: the message data of certain physical port is distributed to certain business board bound in a dynamic fashion, when the message data amount entering power board is greater than the bandwidth capacity of a physical port, then remaining message data is distributed to next physical port and is tied to corresponding business board, by that analogy, until data allocations is complete.
In treatment system of the present invention, power board comprises a plurality of physical port and the first exchange chip, described dynamical fashion is: collect power board physical port information and business board information (the i.e. number of collection power board physical port, and be numbered for each physical port, collect business board information and be collection business board number, and be numbered for each business board, be convenient to pairing below) and monitor the Link-UP event of power board physical port, if first physical port is in active state, then the message data that first physical port enters is tied to first piece of business board, if first physical port is inactive, then continue the active state of checking second physical port, the like, the message data of the physical port of all activities, be tied on the corresponding service plate of system.
In the present invention, the effect of ATCA cabinet is powered to each business board and provides the effect of backplane channel, wherein power board to be to provide final business physical interface and the effect that the effect of business data flow, wherein business board of converging turnover is process, the wherein master control borad doing traffic forwarding and tunnel traffic and various access service is configuration and monitoring whole set equipment and forwarding cache information table between synchronous different business plate.
Between board business datum stationary problem by control and management plane and message repeating plane be separated and rational deployment realizes; The problem that between board, load balancing is distributed is realized by the tactful forwarding capability of power board and the stacking agreement of Higig.The stacking agreement of Higig is a kind of a kind of technology stacking for multiple chips realized in its exchanger chip by company of Botong (broadcom).The stacking agreement used in explanation of the present invention, using Higig agreement as concrete implementation, if concrete scheme has used the exchanger chip of other manufacturer in realizing, then can use corresponding stacking agreement.
Business board only carries out Message processing according to current business forwarding cache information, once cannot the match is successful will carry out complete complete trails forward process to master control borad by redirection message.This design to carry out according to material facts of network traffics, and the network traffics of 99% are all IP operation bag and forwarding strategy in gateway device inside and path are identical.So business board can directly according to the network traffics of the contents processing overwhelming majority of business forwarding cache information table.
As shown in Figure 4, the design of present ATCA business board can reach higher density, usually can place two high performance CPU processors on a business board.In order to allow two CPU processors of a business board can parallel processing service message, using single CPU processor as logic business plate, distribution service forwarding cache information table can be unified by master control borad.In addition, be accurately redirected to the CPU processor of certain business board from the port of power board in order to ensure service message, do not need the path of the exchange process being concerned about backboard and centre, need on the interface of board interconnected, apply the stacking agreement of Higig.Be that each exchanger core blade unit and CPU processor unit distribute independently MODID (module numbering) in the initialized process of software systems, the stacking agreement of Higig directly forwards according to the target MODID of message on interconnected interface.Software is that each processing unit of each board of complete machine is assigned with independently MODID.At the port application forwarding strategy that the exchange chip message of power board enters, be the message intended target MODID received, such service message successfully will arrive the CPU processor of corresponding business board under the effect of the stacking agreement of Higig.Wherein logic business plate is the management object of software virtual, and load-balancing algorithm will distribute rational Processing tasks for each logic business plate.
Load-balancing algorithm between each logic business plate can have multiple implementation method, and general way has static physical port binding logic business plate, dynamic physical port binding logic business plate, is redirected to certain logic business plate according to message source IP cryptographic Hash, is redirected to certain logic business plate according to message object IP cryptographic Hash.From the result of application process feedback, the loading algorithm of dynamic physical port binding logic business plate is best implementation.
The loading algorithm of dynamic physical port binding logic business plate, refers to the management chain of command of master control borad according to the Link-UP event of the panel physical port of power board dynamically for it distributes and binding logic business plate processing unit.According to this algorithm, the power board panel physical port of first Link-UP (inserting netting twine to be communicated with other network equipment), will be assigned to first logic business plate processing unit, the like.The fact basis of this algorithm is, the data rate that the panel physical port of usual power board can be supported is 10Gbps or 40Gbps, and correspondence more than 10Gbps or 40Gbps of the data throughout that high performance network processing unit can forward, institute thinks that physical port is bound a logic business plate (CPU processor) and can be guaranteed that business forwarding carries out not packet loss smoothly.
As shown in Figure 2, after message enters whole set equipment, first arrive power board.Power board carries out Preliminary screening to message, and IP message is delivered to corresponding business board according to load-balancing algorithm, and non-IP message (normally ARP message) is delivered to master control borad.After IP message arrives business board, five critical fielies are extracted from the header information of message, the cache information table existed carries out searching coupling, if matched, carry out message conversion and transmission according to the content of forwarding cache information table, if do not matched, deliver and carry out fullpath forwarding and buffer memory information learning to master control borad.On business board, forwarding face forwards based on forwarding cache information, replace IP header information and the mac header information of message according to the content of cache information, some data flow also will carry out the encryption and decryption operation of message data content according to the IPsec key information of buffer memory.On master control borad, the process of layer two MAC header information, the process of three layers of IP header information, the process of four layers of TCP/UDP header information are carried out to message respectively according to the processing mode of ICP/IP protocol stack in forwarding face.Carrying out the forward process process of fullpath, if find that the header information of certain one deck is abnormal, dropping packets also does abnormal information log recording, if find that the final destination address of message is this equipment, text delivery is done further process to managing chain of command application program accordingly.If whole fullpath forward process completes smoothly, message finally sends from certain service port, then record the forwarding cache information of the data flow corresponding to this message.
Tool of the present invention has the following advantages:
Effect one, realize the little base station access network of the LTE Smallcell of complete machine many boards unified management parallel processing and close product, make it more easy to use.
Effect two, because business board business forwarding cache synchronizing information forms mutual redundancy backup, improve the reliability of system and product, avoid individual business board hardware fault to cause network interruption.
Effect three, dynamically can carry out dilatation or power-save operation to gateway product according to forwarding loading condition and electric power energy service condition, business board can hot plug, realizes flexible extendible gateway product.
Although the foregoing describe the specific embodiment of the present invention; but be familiar with those skilled in the art to be to be understood that; specific embodiment described by us is illustrative; instead of for the restriction to scope of the present invention; those of ordinary skill in the art, in the modification of the equivalence done according to spirit of the present invention and change, should be encompassed in scope that claim of the present invention protects.