CN114844945A - Network capacity management method, capacity open platform and network capacity management system - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a network capacity management method, a capacity open platform and a network capacity management system, wherein the network capacity management method is executed by the capacity open platform, and the capacity open platform comprises the following steps: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF, the method comprising: and encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller by the CCF, the AEF, the APF and/or the AMF. In the invention, the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API of the capability network element, so that the capability network element is prevented from being directly exposed to a client, the safety is improved, and the capability open platform proxies the calling of the capability API by a capability caller, so that the calling behavior of the capability API can be controlled.
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Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of networks, in particular to a network capacity management method, a capacity open platform and a network capacity management system.
Background
As shown in fig. 1, the existing network capability management system is mainly composed of a CCF (CAPIF Core Function, public API framework Core Function) and an API Provider Domain. The CCF is used for authentication, capability Management, and capability discovery, and the API Provider Domain includes an AEF (API Exposing Function), an APF (API Publishing Function), and an AMF (API Management Function) for capability provision, capability Publishing, and capability Management. The network capability may be a capability capable of providing an API (Application Programming Interface) Interface, such as multimedia message, edge computing, cloud Service, or Qos (Quality of Service).
In the existing network capacity management system, there are mainly flows of capacity release, capacity discovery, capacity invocation, and the like, specifically:
the capacity publishing process comprises the following steps: the APF issues the capacity to the CCF, and the CCF checks the on-line capacity after passing;
the capacity discovery process comprises the following steps: an API caller (API explorer) discovers the capability of the CCF and acquires API calling information (including AEF addresses and the like);
the capability calling flow is as follows: and the API caller carries API calling information to call the capability to the AEF, the AEF authenticates the authentication to the CCF, and the capability is provided to the API caller after the authentication is passed.
From the analysis of the capability release perspective, the capability opening platform to which the CCF belongs directly opens the capability released by the capability provider APF, which results in the following problems: the capability open platform has difficulty in managing and controlling the function or field information exposed by the capability API.
From the aspect of capability calling, after an API caller finds the capability from the capability open platform to which the CCF belongs and acquires the address of the AEF of the capability provider, the API caller directly calls the capability to the AEF, so that the following problems are caused:
1) the capability open platform is difficult to control the capability API calling behavior;
2) the capability provider is directly exposed to the client, and the safety and operation risk are increased.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a network capacity management method, a capacity open platform and a network capacity management system, which are used for solving the problems that in the prior art, a capacity caller directly calls a capacity API from a capacity provider, so that the capacity open platform is difficult to control the calling behavior of the capacity API, and the safety and the operation risk of the capacity provider are high.
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:
in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network capability management method, which is executed by a capability openness platform, where the capability openness platform includes: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF, the method comprising:
and encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element through the CCF, the AEF, the APF and/or the AMF of the capability open platform, and carrying out capability call proxy on the capability caller.
Optionally, the method further includes:
performing, by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF of the capability openness platform, at least one of the following network capability management: and performing network element registration or network element logout on the capability network element, providing a capability discovery report for a capability caller, and performing capability discovery, capability modification and/or capability logout on the capability network element.
Optionally, the performing network element registration or network element deregistration on the capable network element includes:
the AMF of the capability open platform receives a network element registration request or a network element logout request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
and the AMF of the capability open platform checks the network element registration request or the network element logout request and returns a registration result or a logout result to the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element includes:
the APF of the capability open platform receives capability release information sent by the APF of a capability network element, wherein the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released by the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform audits the capability API;
if the verification is passed, the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform returns an auditing result to the APF of the capability network element;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform further includes, according to a specified capability encapsulation rule, before encapsulating the capability API:
and the APF of the capability open platform receives the capability encapsulation rule configured by the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, providing the capability discovery report to the capability caller comprises:
the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, wherein the capability discovery request is used for inquiring or subscribing target capability;
and the CCF of the capability open platform sends a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
Optionally, the capability discovery for the capability network element includes:
the AMF of the capability open platform sends capability discovery information to the AMF of the capability network element, and the capability discovery information is used for inquiring or subscribing the capability;
and the AMF of the capability open platform receives the information of the query or subscription capability returned by the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, the capability calling proxy for the capability caller includes:
the AEF of the capability open platform receives capability calling information sent by an API caller, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
the AEF of the capability open platform sends the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information and returns an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API;
the AEF of the capability open platform receives a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
and the AEF of the capability open platform sends the capability calling result to the API caller.
Optionally, the capability calling information carries calling information of a plurality of capability APIs which are requested to be called;
if the authentication passes, the sending of the capability calling request to the capability network element corresponding to the capability API by the AEF of the capability open platform includes:
and if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to each capability network element corresponding to the plurality of capability APIs.
Optionally, encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element includes:
the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the information of the plurality of capability APIs according to the capability arrangement combination rule to obtain the calling information of the composite capability API;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform packages information of the multiple capability APIs according to the capability orchestration combination rule, and before obtaining the call information of the composite capability API, the method further includes: the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information; the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
after the APF of the capability open platform reports the call information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform, the method further includes: and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a capability opening platform, including: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF;
and the capability open platform is used for encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element through the CCF, the AEF, the APF and/or the AMF and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller.
Optionally, the capability open platform is further configured to perform, by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF, at least one of the following network capability management: and performing network element registration or network element cancellation on the capability network element, providing a capability discovery report for the capability caller, and performing capability discovery, capability modification and/or capability cancellation on the capability network element.
Optionally, the AMF of the capability open platform is configured to receive a network element registration request or a network element deregistration request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
the AMF of the capability open platform is further used for auditing the network element registration request or the network element logout request and returning a registration result or a logout result to the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to receive capability release information sent by the APF of a capability network element, where the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released by the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform is also used for auditing the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform is further used for encapsulating the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule if the verification is passed, so as to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform is also used for returning an auditing result to the APF of the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform is also used for reporting the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability openness platform is further configured to receive a capability encapsulation rule configured by the CCF of the capability openness platform.
Optionally, the CCF of the capability open platform is configured to receive a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, where the capability discovery request is used to query or subscribe the target capability;
and the CCF of the capability open platform is further used for sending a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
Optionally, the AMF of the capability open platform is configured to send capability discovery information to the AMF of the capability network element, where the capability discovery information is used to query or subscribe to a capability;
the AMF of the capability open platform is further configured to receive information of the query or subscription capability returned by the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, the AEF of the capability open platform is configured to receive capability calling information sent by an API caller, where the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
the CCF of the capability open platform is used for carrying out authentication and certification on the authentication information and returning an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API if authentication passes;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for receiving a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
and the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending the capability calling result to the API caller.
Optionally, the AEF of the capability open platform is configured to send a capability calling request to each capability network element corresponding to the plurality of capability APIs if the authentication passes.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to package information of the multiple capability APIs according to a capability orchestration combination rule to obtain call information of a composite capability API;
and the APF of the capability open platform is also used for reporting the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to encapsulate information of the multiple capability APIs according to the capability orchestration combination rule, and before obtaining the call information of the composite capability API, the APF further includes: the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information; the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
the APF of the capability openness platform is further configured to, after reporting the call information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability openness platform, further include: and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a network capability management system, including the capability opening platform described in the second aspect and a plurality of capability network elements.
In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a capability opening platform, including: a processor, a memory and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the network capability management method of the first aspect.
In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the network capacity management method according to the first aspect.
The embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:
in the embodiment of the invention, the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API of the capability network element, the capability network element is prevented from being directly exposed to a client, the safety is improved, and the capability open platform proxies the calling of the capability API by a capability caller, so that the calling behavior of the capability API can be controlled.
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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a conventional network capacity management system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a network capability management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a network capability management method according to an embodiment of the invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a network element registration flow according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a capability publishing process according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a capability discovery process according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a capability call flow according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a capability call flow according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating capability orchestration according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a capability openness platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a capability opening platform according to another embodiment of the present invention.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a network capacity management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the network capacity management system includes: the system comprises a capability opening platform and a capability network element, wherein the capability opening platform comprises: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF, and the capability network element comprises: AEF, APF and AMF.
Wherein the CCF is used for authentication, capability encapsulation management, capability invocation management, capability publishing management and/or capability discovery. The capability encapsulation refers to encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element, for example, encapsulating information such as a name, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), a call path, an authentication mode, response information, and/or fields of each part, so as to prevent the capability network element from being directly exposed to a client and improve security.
AEFs are used for capability calling and capability provisioning.
The APF is used for capability publishing and capability encapsulation.
The AMF is used for calling records, ticket management and/or network element registration.
The following describes interfaces between the functional modules of the capability openness platform, between the capability openness platform and the capability network element, and between the capability openness platform and the capability caller.
IF 1: and the interface between the API caller and the CCF is used for realizing capability discovery and/or capability arrangement combination of the API caller to the CCF.
IF 2: and the interface between the API caller and the AEF of the capability open platform is used for realizing capability calling from the API caller to the AEF.
IF 3: the interface between the CCF and the AEF of the capability openness platform is used to implement authentication from the AEF of the capability openness platform to the CCF, and/or the CCF performs call management (for example, capability online, offline, and/or flow control) on the AEF of the capability openness platform.
IF 4: and the interface between the CCF and the APF of the capability open platform is used for realizing that the CCF configures capability encapsulation rules for the APF of the capability open platform, and/or the CCF instructs the APF of the capability open platform to perform capability arrangement combination encapsulation on new capabilities, and/or the CCF inquires capability information from the APF of the capability open platform.
IF 5: and the interface between the CCF and the AMF of the capability open platform is used for realizing that the CCF inquires or subscribes the calling information of the capability API from the AMF of the capability open platform.
And the IF6 is an interface between the AEF of the capability opening platform and the AEF of the capability network element and is used for realizing capability calling of the capability opening platform to the capability network element.
And the IF7 is an interface between the APF of the capability opening platform and the APF of the capability network element and is used for realizing capability release, modification and/or logout of the capability network element to the capability opening platform.
IF8, an interface between the AMF of the capability opening platform and the AMF of the capability network element, which is used to realize that the capability opening platform queries or subscribes the calling information of the capability API to the capability network element, and/or the capability network element performs network element registration or network element deregistration to the capability opening platform.
The interfaces between the capability openness platforms such as IF1 and IF2 and the capability invokers can call the entries uniformly on the capability openness platform, and the interfaces between the capability openness platforms such as IF6, IF7 and IF8 and the capability network elements can call the entries uniformly on the capability openness platform and the capability network elements.
The following describes a network capability management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a network capacity management method according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the network capacity management method is executed by a capacity openness platform, where the capacity openness platform includes: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF, the method comprising:
step 31: and encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF of the capability open platform.
The capability encapsulation means encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element, for example, encapsulating information such as a name, a URL, a call path, an authentication method, response information, and/or fields of each part of the capability API, so as to prevent the capability network element from being directly exposed to a client and improve security.
For example, the encapsulation call path may be a change or update of an original call path, and the encapsulation authentication mode may be a change or update of an authentication mode, and an authentication mode of the capability network element is modified to an authentication mode of the capability open platform.
In the embodiment of the invention, the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API of the capability network element, the capability network element is prevented from being directly exposed to a client, the safety is improved, and the capability open platform proxies the calling of the capability API by a capability caller, so that the calling behavior of the capability API can be controlled.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the network capability management method further includes: performing, by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF of the capability openness platform, at least one of the following network capability management: and performing network element registration or network element logout on the capability network element, providing a capability discovery report for a capability caller, and performing capability discovery, capability modification and/or capability logout on the capability network element.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, performing network element registration or network element deregistration on a capable network element includes:
the AMF of the capability open platform receives a network element registration request or a network element logout request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
and the AMF of the capability open platform checks the network element registration request or the network element logout request and returns a registration result or a logout result to the AMF of the capability network element.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element includes:
the APF of the capability open platform receives capability release information sent by the APF of a capability network element, wherein the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released by the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform audits the capability API;
if the verification is passed, the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform returns an auditing result to the APF of the capability network element;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, before encapsulating the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule, the APF of the capability open platform further includes:
and the APF of the capability open platform receives the capability encapsulation rule configured by the CCF of the capability open platform.
In the embodiment of the invention, the capability open platform dynamically supports the encapsulation of the capability API dynamically issued by the capability network element (including the encapsulation of parts such as API names, call paths, authentication methods, fields of each part and/or response information and the like), and supports the dynamic issuance of the encapsulated capability API, so that the management and control of the capability API functions and/or fields can be realized. The capability open platform supports the configuration of dynamic capability encapsulation rules by an administrator or an external capability caller, and supports the understanding and the execution of the rules to realize the dynamic capability encapsulation. The capability caller directly calls the dynamically packaged capability to the capability open platform, so that topology hiding of the capability network element is realized, the control behavior of the capability open platform on the dynamic capability is enhanced, and the authentication and authentication steps of the capability network element are reduced.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the providing a capability discovery report to the capability caller includes:
the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, wherein the capability discovery request is used for inquiring or subscribing target capability;
and the CCF of the capability open platform sends a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the capability discovery on the capability network element includes:
the AMF of the capability open platform sends capability discovery information to the AMF of the capability network element, and the capability discovery information is used for inquiring or subscribing the capability;
and the AMF of the capability open platform receives the information of the query or subscription capability returned by the AMF of the capability network element.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the performing a capability call agent on the capability caller includes:
the AEF of the capability open platform receives capability calling information sent by an API caller, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
the AEF of the capability open platform sends the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information and returns an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API;
the AEF of the capability open platform receives a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
and the AEF of the capability open platform sends the capability calling result to the API caller.
In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the capability calling information carries calling information of a plurality of capability APIs that are requested to be called;
if the authentication passes, the sending of the capability calling request to the capability network element corresponding to the capability API by the AEF of the capability open platform includes:
and if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to each capability network element corresponding to the plurality of capability APIs.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element includes:
the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the information of the plurality of capability APIs according to the capability arrangement combination rule to obtain the calling information of the composite capability API;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
In this embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the step of encapsulating, by the APF of the capability open platform, the information of the multiple capability APIs according to the capability orchestration combination rule to obtain the call information of the composite capability API further includes:
the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information;
the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
after the APF of the capability open platform reports the call information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform, the method further includes:
and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
In the embodiment of the invention, the capability opening platform supports the capability arranging and combining configuration of an administrator or an external capability caller in an API or portal form, and supports the understanding and the execution of the arranging and combining rules to dynamically arrange and combine various dynamic capabilities to generate new composite capability. And the new composite capability support is called directly on the capability open platform by the capability caller.
The following describes an example of the interaction flow of the above capability management method.
(1) Network element registration flow
Referring to fig. 4, the network element registration process includes the following steps:
step 41: the AMF of the capability open platform receives a network element registration request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
step 42: and the AMF of the capability open platform checks the network element registration request and returns a registration result to the AMF of the capability network element.
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Referring to fig. 5, the capability publishing process includes the following steps:
step 51: the CCF of the capability open platform configures a capability encapsulation rule to the APF of the capability open platform;
step 52: the APF of the capability open platform returns response information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
step 53: an APF of a capability open platform receives capability release information sent by an APF of a capability network element, wherein the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released of the capability network element;
step 54: the APF of the capability open platform audits the capability API;
step 55: if the verification is passed, the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
step 56: the APF of the capability open platform returns an audit result to the APF of the capability network element;
and 57: and the APF of the capability open platform reports the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Step 58: and the CCF of the capability open platform sends response information to the APF of the capability open platform.
In this embodiment of the present invention, the process may be in an asynchronous manner, where the asynchronous manner refers to that there is no specified feedback time limit for the request information, for example, for the capability release information sent by the capability network element, the capability openness platform does not need to feed back the audit result within the specified time limit.
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Referring to fig. 6, the capability discovery process includes the following steps:
no. 61: the method comprises the steps that a CCF of a capability open platform receives a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, wherein the capability discovery request is used for inquiring or subscribing target capability;
step 62: and the CCF of the capability open platform sends a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the above process may be in an asynchronous manner.
(4) Capability call flow
Referring to fig. 7, the capability call flow includes the following steps:
step 71: an AEF of the capability open platform receives capability calling information sent by an API caller, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
step 72: the AEF of the capability open platform sends the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
step 73: the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and authorization on the authentication information and returns an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
step 74: if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API;
step 75: the AEF of the capability open platform receives a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
step 76: and the AEF of the capability open platform sends the capability calling result to the API caller.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the above process may be in an asynchronous manner.
(5) Capability call flow
Referring to fig. 8, the capability call flow includes the following steps:
step 81: an AEF of a capability open platform receives capability calling information sent by an API caller, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a plurality of (for example, n) capability APIs requested to be called;
step 82: the AEF of the capability open platform sends the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
step 83: the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and verification on the authentication information and returns an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
step 84: if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends capability calling requests to the capability network elements corresponding to the capability APIs respectively;
step 85: the AEF of the capability open platform receives capability calling results returned by each capability network element;
step 86: and the AEF of the capability open platform sends each capability calling result to the API caller.
(6) Capability arrangement combined flow
Referring to fig. 9, the capability orchestration combination includes the following steps:
step 91: the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information;
and step 92: the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
step 93: the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the information of the plurality of capability APIs according to the capability arrangement combination rule to obtain the calling information of the composite capability API;
step 94: and the APF of the capability open platform reports the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Step 95: and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the above process may be in an asynchronous manner.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the capability orchestration combination is initiated by a capability caller, and in some other examples of the present invention, it may also be initiated by a CCF.
Referring to fig. 10, an embodiment of the present invention provides a capability opening platform, including: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF;
and the capability open platform is used for encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element through the CCF, the AEF, the APF and/or the AMF and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller.
Optionally, the capability open platform is further configured to perform, by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF, at least one of the following network capability management: and performing network element registration or network element logout on the capability network element, providing a capability discovery report for a capability caller, and performing capability discovery, capability modification and/or capability logout on the capability network element.
Optionally, the AMF of the capability open platform is configured to receive a network element registration request or a network element deregistration request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
the AMF of the capability open platform is further used for auditing the network element registration request or the network element logout request and returning a registration result or a logout result to the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to receive capability release information sent by the APF of a capability network element, where the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released by the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform is also used for auditing the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform is further used for encapsulating the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule if the verification is passed, so as to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform is also used for returning an auditing result to the APF of the capability network element;
and the APF of the capability open platform is also used for reporting the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability openness platform is further configured to receive a capability encapsulation rule configured by the CCF of the capability openness platform.
Optionally, the CCF of the capability open platform is configured to receive a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, where the capability discovery request is used to query or subscribe the target capability;
and the CCF of the capability open platform is further used for sending a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
Optionally, the AMF of the capability open platform is configured to send capability discovery information to an AMF of a capability network element, where the capability discovery information is used to query or subscribe a capability;
the AMF of the capability open platform is further configured to receive information of the query or subscription capability returned by the AMF of the capability network element.
Optionally, the AEF of the capability open platform is configured to receive capability calling information sent by an API caller, where the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
the CCF of the capability open platform is used for carrying out authentication and certification on the authentication information and returning an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API if the authentication passes;
the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for receiving a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
and the AEF of the capability open platform is also used for sending the capability calling result to the API caller.
Optionally, the AEF of the capability open platform is configured to send a capability calling request to each capability network element corresponding to the plurality of capability APIs if the authentication passes.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to package information of the multiple capability APIs according to a capability orchestration combination rule to obtain call information of a composite capability API;
and the APF of the capability open platform is also used for reporting the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
Optionally, the APF of the capability open platform is configured to encapsulate information of the multiple capability APIs according to the capability orchestration combination rule, and before obtaining the call information of the composite capability API, the APF further includes: the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information; the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
the APF of the capability openness platform is further configured to, after reporting the call information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability openness platform, further include: and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
Referring to fig. 11, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a capability openness platform 110, which includes a processor 111, a memory 112, and a computer program stored in the memory 112 and capable of running on the processor 111, where the computer program, when executed by the processor 111, implements the processes of the network capability management method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects, and therefore, in order to avoid repetition, the details are not repeated here.
The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the above-mentioned network capability management method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.
It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.
While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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1. A network capability management method, performed by a capability openness platform, the capability openness platform comprising: the method comprises the following steps of providing a public API framework core function CCF, an API open function AEF, an API release function APF and an API management function AMF, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
and encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF of the capability open platform.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
performing, by the CCF, AEF, APF and/or AMF of the capability openness platform, at least one of the following network capability management: and performing network element registration or network element logout on the capability network element, providing a capability discovery report for a capability caller, and performing capability discovery, capability modification and/or capability logout on the capability network element.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein performing network element registration or network element deregistration for capable network elements comprises:
the AMF of the capability open platform receives a network element registration request or a network element logout request sent by the AMF of the capability network element;
and the AMF of the capability open platform checks the network element registration request or the network element logout request and returns a registration result or a logout result to the AMF of the capability network element.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein encapsulating the capability API published to the capability network element comprises:
the APF of the capability open platform receives capability release information sent by the APF of a capability network element, wherein the capability release information carries information of a capability API to be released by the capability network element;
the APF of the capability open platform audits the capability API;
if the verification is passed, the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule to obtain the encapsulated calling information of the capability API;
the APF of the capability open platform returns an auditing result to the APF of the capability network element;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the packaged calling information of the capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein before encapsulating the capability API according to a specified capability encapsulation rule, the APF of the capability openness platform further comprises:
and the APF of the capability open platform receives the capability encapsulation rule configured by the CCF of the capability open platform.
6. The method of claim 2, wherein providing a capability discovery report to a capability caller comprises:
the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability discovery request sent by an API caller, wherein the capability discovery request is used for inquiring or subscribing target capability;
and the CCF of the capability open platform sends a capability discovery report to the API caller according to the capability discovery request, wherein the capability discovery report comprises the packaged calling information of the capability API corresponding to the target capability.
7. The method of claim 2, wherein capability discovery for a capability network element comprises:
the AMF of the capability open platform sends capability discovery information to the AMF of the capability network element, and the capability discovery information is used for inquiring or subscribing the capability;
and the AMF of the capability open platform receives the information of the query or subscription capability returned by the AMF of the capability network element.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein making a capability call proxy for a capability caller comprises:
the AEF of the capability open platform receives capability calling information sent by an API caller, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information and authentication information of a capability API requested to be called;
the AEF of the capability open platform sends the authentication information to the CCF of the capability open platform;
the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information and returns an authentication result to the AEF of the capability open platform;
if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to a capability network element corresponding to the capability API;
the AEF of the capability open platform receives a capability calling result returned by the capability network element;
and the AEF of the capability open platform sends the capability calling result to the API caller.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the capability calling information carries calling information of a plurality of capability APIs requesting calling;
if the authentication passes, the sending of the capability calling request to the capability network element corresponding to the capability API by the AEF of the capability open platform includes:
and if the authentication passes, the AEF of the capability open platform sends a capability calling request to each capability network element corresponding to the plurality of capability APIs.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein encapsulating the capability API published to the capability network element comprises:
the APF of the capability open platform encapsulates the information of the plurality of capability APIs according to the capability arrangement combination rule to obtain the calling information of the composite capability API;
and the APF of the capability open platform reports the calling information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform.
11. The method of claim 10,
the APF of the capability open platform packages the information of the plurality of capability APIs according to the capability arranging and combining rule, and before obtaining the calling information of the composite capability API, the method further comprises the following steps: the CCF of the capability open platform receives a capability arranging and combining instruction sent by an API caller, wherein the capability arranging and combining instruction carries capability arranging and combining rules and authentication information; the CCF of the capability open platform carries out authentication and certification on the authentication information; if the authentication passes and the capability arranging and combining instruction is legal, the capability arranging and combining instruction is issued to the APF of the capability open platform;
after the APF of the capability open platform reports the call information of the composite capability API to the CCF of the capability open platform, the method further includes: and the CCF of the capability open platform returns the calling information of the composite capability API to the API caller.
12. An open capability platform, comprising: CCF, AEF, APF and AMF;
and the capability open platform is used for encapsulating the capability API issued by the capability network element through the CCF, the AEF, the APF and/or the AMF and carrying out capability calling proxy on the capability caller.
13. A network capability management system comprising the capability openness platform of claim 12 and a plurality of capability network elements.
14. An open capability platform, comprising: processor, memory and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor implements the steps of the network capability management method according to any of claims 1 to 11.
15. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored thereon, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the network capability management method according to any one of claims 1 to 11.
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