CN118158705A

CN118158705A - Information opening method, device, network function and storage medium

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Publication number: CN118158705A
Application number: CN202410269477.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 孙悦
Original assignee: China Telecom Technology Innovation Center; China Telecom Corp Ltd
Current assignee: China Telecom Technology Innovation Center; China Telecom Corp Ltd
Filing date: 2024-03-08
Publication date: 2024-06-07

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and relates to an information opening method, an information opening device, a first function, a second function, and a computer-readable storage medium. The information opening method comprises the steps of receiving a request message sent by a second function, wherein the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from a first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier; and determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier, and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function. The method and the device can open the energy consumption information of the core network to a third party, and provide an information basis for improving energy efficiency.

Description

Information opening method, device, network function and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and more particularly, to an information opening method, an information opening apparatus, a first function, a second function, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

In recent years, in order to cope with climate change and an increase in energy consumption, many countries and regions have issued related methods and demands for controlling carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency. Energy conservation is also an important study for global telecom operators. However, at present, the core network side cannot support the content of energy efficiency and energy saving, and especially cannot effectively open the energy consumption information, and a third party cannot accurately and comprehensively acquire the energy consumption information of the network side to perform relevant policy adjustment. Therefore, there is a need for an energy consumption information opening method for a core network.

It should be noted that the information of the present invention in the above background section is only for enhancing understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and thus may include information that does not form the prior art that is already known to those of ordinary skill in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

The disclosure aims to provide an information opening method, an information opening device, a first function, a second function and a computer readable storage medium, so that energy consumption information of a core network can be opened to a third party, and an information basis is provided for improving energy efficiency.

Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will be apparent from the following detailed description, or may be learned in part by the practice of the disclosure.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information opening method, applying a first function, including: receiving a request message sent by a second function, wherein the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier; and determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier, and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the request message further carries first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a granularity level of the energy consumption information; the determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier further comprises: and according to the first indication information, determining energy consumption information corresponding to the granularity level of the energy consumption information as the target energy consumption information.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the method further comprises: acquiring energy consumption information from a third function; the third function includes at least one of the following network elements: network function NF network element in core network; operation, maintenance and management (OAM).

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier includes: and determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier from the acquired energy consumption information.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the granularity level of the energy consumption information includes at least one of a network slice level, a user equipment UE level, a network function NF level, an application level, and a protocol data unit PDU level.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the request message further carries second indication information, where the second indication information is used to indicate an information reporting period; the opening the target energy consumption information to the second function includes: and periodically opening the target energy consumption information based on the second indication information.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the request message further carries third indication information, where the third indication information indicates an event triggering condition; the opening the target energy consumption information to the second function includes: and opening the target energy consumption information in an event triggering mode based on the third indication information.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the first function is a sub-function of a network data analysis function; or the first function is an independent network element and is combined with the network data analysis function.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the receiving the request message sent by the second function includes: directly receiving the request message sent by the second function; or receiving the request message sent by the second function through the fourth function.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information opening method applied to a second function, the method including: a request message is sent to a first function, wherein the request message is used for requesting the energy consumption information of an open network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier; and receiving a response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, wherein the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identification.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the sending a request message to a first function includes: directly sending the request message to the first function; or sending the request message to the first function through a fourth function.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information opening device provided at a first function, including: the first receiving unit is used for receiving a request message sent by a second function, wherein the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier; and the response unit is used for determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information opening device provided at a second function, including: a first sending unit, configured to send a request message to a first function, where the request message is used to request energy consumption information of an open network side to the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier; and the second receiving unit is used for receiving the response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, and the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identification.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a first function comprising: a first processor; and a first memory for storing executable instructions of the first processor; wherein the first processor is configured to perform the method of any of the above via execution of the executable instructions.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a second function comprising: a second processor; and a second memory for storing executable instructions of the second processor; wherein the second processor is configured to perform the method described in the above via execution of the executable instructions.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the method of any one of the above.

According to the information opening method in the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a first function receives a request message sent by a second function, the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function and carries an event identifier, and then the first function determines target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier and opens the target energy consumption information to the second function. The method and the device can open the target energy consumption information of the network side through the first function, so that the information of the network side can be opened to a third party, the third party is guided to adjust business and the like according to the target energy consumption information, and an information basis is provided for improving energy efficiency.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The above, as well as additional purposes, features, and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will become readily apparent from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates a network architecture diagram involved in an information opening method of an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of an information opening method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 illustrates an interactive flow diagram of energy consumption information opening according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 illustrates a flowchart of another information opening method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 5 is a structural composition diagram showing an information opening device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 6 is a structural composition diagram showing another information opening device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 illustrates a block diagram of a first function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

Fig. 8 shows a block diagram of the second function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.

In the drawings, the same or corresponding reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the exemplary embodiments may be embodied in many forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the exemplary embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar structures, and thus detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.

Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the disclosed aspects may be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, devices, steps, etc. In other instances, well-known structures, methods, devices, implementations, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the disclosure.

The block diagrams depicted in the figures are merely functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically separate entities. That is, these functional entities may be implemented in software, or in one or more software-hardened modules, or in different networks and/or processor devices and/or microcontroller devices.

Climate change and energy consumption increase have led to increasing attention to energy efficiency, and at present, many countries and regions have issued related policies and requirements for controlling carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency, and energy conservation is also important for global telecom operators. Part of the energy efficiency (ENERGY EFFICIENCY) and energy saving (ENERGY SAVING) scenarios and functions have been supported at the 3GPP (3 rd Generation Partnership Project, third generation partnership project) wireless and OAM (Operation Administration AND MAINTENANCE, operation and maintenance management) side.

However, at present, the core network side cannot support the related content of energy efficiency and energy saving, and cannot open the energy consumption information to a third party, and the third party cannot accurately and comprehensively acquire the energy consumption information of the network side to adjust the related strategy.

Based on this, in the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an information opening method is provided first, where target energy consumption information on a network side is developed to a second function through a first function, so that opening of the energy consumption information on the network side is achieved, and an information basis is provided for improving energy efficiency.

Fig. 1 illustrates a network architecture diagram involved in an information opening method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 1, in view of Network architecture, a first Function is connected to each functional Network element, where the first Function is an energy consumption statistics Network element, and the energy consumption statistics Network element may be a subfunction of NWDAF (Network DATA ANALYTICS Function), or the energy consumption statistics Network element is an independent Network element and is combined with NWDAF. The energy consumption statistics network element may also have other names in future communication systems, which are not limited by the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.

Wherein NWDAF incorporates standard interfaces based on service architecture to collect data from other network functions and similar programs through subscription or request models, to provide analysis functions in the network for automation or reporting, and can be used to analyze collected data of 5G core networks, user equipment of cloud and edge networks, network functions, operation maintenance management OAM, etc.

A network opening network element for safely opening services and capabilities provided by the 3GPP network function network element to the outside, and the like. In a 5G communication system, the network opening network element may be a network opening function (Network Exposure Function, NEF) network element. In future communication systems, the network opening function may still be a NEF network element, or may have other names, which the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure do not limit.

Policy control network elements, unified policy frameworks for guiding network behavior, providing policy rule information for control plane function network elements (e.g., AMF (ACCESS AND Mobility Management Function, access management function network elements), SMF (Session Management Function ) network elements, etc.), etc. In future communication systems, the access management function may still be an AMF network element, or may have other names, and the session management function may still be an SMF network element, or may have other names, which are not limited by the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.

And the application network element is used for carrying out data routing influenced by application, accessing the network element with an open function of the network, carrying out strategy control by interacting with a strategy framework and the like. In a 5G communication system, the application network element may be an AF (Application Function ) network element. In future communication systems, the application network element may still be an AF network element, or may have other names, which the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure do not limit.

In addition, the network architecture further relates to network elements such as PCF (Policy Control Function ), NSSF (Network Slice Selection Function, network slice selection function), UDM (Unified DATA MANAGEMENT ), OAM, etc., which are not described in detail, and may be related network elements in the current communication network architecture, and may also have other names in future communication systems, which are not limited.

It will be appreciated that the network elements or functions described above may be either network elements in a hardware device, software functions running on dedicated hardware, or virtualized functions instantiated on a platform (e.g., a cloud platform).

It should also be understood that the above-mentioned network structures are merely exemplary network structures, and that a network structure to which the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are applied is not limited, and any network structure capable of implementing the functions of the respective network elements described above is applicable to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.

Fig. 2 illustrates a flowchart of an information opening method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, which is applied to a first function, as in fig. 2, the information opening method may include:

Step S210: and receiving a first request message sent by the second function, wherein the first request message is used for requesting the energy consumption information of the network side from the first function, and the first request message at least carries an event identifier.

In the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the first function refers to an energy consumption statistics network element, and energy consumption information of a network side is acquired through the first function and sent to a third party. The second function is an application function (such as an AF network element), and may send a request message directly or indirectly to the first function, for requesting energy consumption information on the network side.

The request message may be an event subscription message for subscribing to energy consumption information of the network side from the first function. Subscription refers to an event in which a Consumer of a Service (Service Consumer) subscribes to the Consumer of the Service to a provider of the Service (Service Producer) through a subscription operation.

The request message needs to carry an Event identifier (such as an Event ID), where the Event identifier is used to indicate an Event that the second function needs to subscribe from the first function, for example, subscribes to energy consumption information. The energy consumption information may include information related to energy consumption, information related to energy efficiency, information related to renewable energy sources and carbon emission, and the like, which refers to information related to energy consumption conditions that is obtained by processing based on service manufacturers, the number of users connected, the temperature of functional network elements, the power of each unit in a network, CQI (Channel Quality Indicator, channel quality information indication) measurement, and the like, and the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure does not make any special limitation, and can be flexibly adjusted according to actual requirements. In addition, the request message can also carry information such as UE address, flow description and the like, and can be flexibly adjusted according to requirements without limitation.

In an alternative embodiment, the first function may directly receive the request message sent by the second function, i.e. the event subscription message is sent directly from the second function, e.g. by the AF to the first function.

In an alternative embodiment, the first function may also receive a request message sent by the second function via the fourth function. Generally, for an untrusted third party request, services and capabilities provided by the 3GPP network function network element need to be securely opened to the outside, and a fourth function is used to implement the function. Therefore, the second function needs to send a request message to the first function through the fourth function.

The fourth function may be a NEF network element, and of course, in future communication systems, the fourth function may also have other names, which is not limited thereto.

For example, the request message from the second function may be an event subscription message sent to the first function through the NEF network element by the AF to ensure the security of the information opening.

Step S220, determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identification, and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function.

In the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the first function may acquire the target energy consumption information according to the event identifier, and open the target energy consumption information to the second function.

In an alternative embodiment, the first function may obtain and store the energy consumption information of the network side in advance, and after receiving the request message from the second function, process (e.g. filter, aggregate, etc.) the stored energy consumption information according to the event identifier or other indication information of the request message, to obtain the target energy consumption information that meets the request of the second function, and open the target energy consumption information to the second function.

In an alternative embodiment, after receiving the request message of the second function, the first function may acquire, at the network side, the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier or other indication information of the request message, and open the target energy consumption information to the second function.

In an optional embodiment, after receiving the message requested by the second function, the first function may further process the stored energy consumption information, but not comprehensively obtain all the energy consumption information requested by the second function, and may further continue to obtain the energy consumption information at the network side, so as to finally obtain the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier or other indication information that accords with the request message, and open the target energy consumption information to the second function.

It should be noted that, the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure may flexibly select a manner of determining the target energy consumption information according to actual requirements.

In an optional embodiment, the network side also needs to support the energy consumption statistics function of each functional network element, so as to realize network function enhancement, and further facilitate the first function to acquire the energy consumption information of the network side.

The first function of the embodiment of the disclosure is a sub-function of the network data analysis function, or the first function is an independent network element and is combined with the network data analysis function. The advantage of the Function of analyzing the Network data through multiplexing is that the energy consumption information is usually required to be acquired in different functional Network elements and OAM, and in the current standard, each NF (Network Function) has an open interface to support the Function of analyzing the Network data to acquire the data. In addition, the OAM also has an interface supporting network data analysis function to acquire management plane data, so that the information opening method of the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure can be realized without changing the existing network architecture and interfaces, the implementation cost is reduced, and the application efficiency is improved.

In addition, the network data analysis function has the capability of carrying out data analysis and prediction according to the acquired energy consumption information, and for the request message sent by the second function, the network data analysis function can analyze and sort the energy consumption information according to the event identification or other indication information carried by the request message, so that the accuracy of opening the energy consumption information is improved.

The steps described above are further described below.

In an exemplary embodiment, the request message further carries first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a granularity level of the energy consumption information.

The granularity levels of the energy consumption information refer to different granularities of the energy consumption information, and the granularity levels of the energy consumption information are indicated by the first indication information, so that the energy consumption information with different granularities can be provided for a third party, and the flexibility of information opening is improved.

The granularity level of the energy consumption information comprises at least one of a network slice level, a User Equipment (UE) level, a Network Function (NF) level, an application level and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) level.

Based on this, determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identification may further include: and according to the first indication information, determining the energy consumption information corresponding to the granularity level of the energy consumption information as target energy consumption information. That is, the first indication information may be carried in the first request message according to the actual requirement to request the energy consumption information with different granularity, which is not limited in this way, and the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure may also request the energy consumption information with multiple granularity levels at the same time.

In an exemplary embodiment, the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may further be that the first function acquires the energy consumption information from the third function in advance and stores the energy consumption information.

Wherein the third function comprises at least one of the following network elements: network function NF network element, operation maintenance management OAM in core network.

Specifically, for the granularity level of the energy consumption information being the network slice level and the network function NF level, the energy consumption information can be obtained from the operation maintenance management OAF; the granularity level of the energy consumption information is UE level, application level and PDU level of the user equipment, and can be acquired from the related network function NF. Of course, it should be noted that, the energy consumption information may be acquired from the corresponding network element according to different granularity levels, and in the communication system, the energy consumption information may also be acquired from the corresponding network element or the location according to other granularity requirements, which is not limited.

Further, after the energy consumption information is obtained from the third function, the energy consumption information may be stored, and after the first function receives the request message of the second function, determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier may further include:

and determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier from the acquired energy consumption information.

That is, the first function may process the stored energy consumption information according to the event identifier (and the granularity level of the energy consumption information) carried in the request message, so as to obtain the target energy consumption information that accords with the first request message. Because the first function acquires and stores the energy consumption information in advance, the required target energy consumption information can be acquired rapidly after the request message is received, and the information opening efficiency is improved.

In an exemplary embodiment, the request message also carries second indication information for indicating an information reporting period.

Based on this, opening the target energy consumption information to the second function includes: and periodically opening the target energy consumption information based on the second indication information.

The information reporting period refers to a period in which the first function opens target energy consumption information to the second function, that is, a period in which the first function opens corresponding energy consumption information to the second function every interval of the information reporting period. The information reporting period, such as daily, weekly, etc., can be flexibly set according to the actual requirements, and is not limited.

According to the method and the device for opening the energy consumption information, the energy consumption information can be periodically opened to the second function according to the information report period of the first request message, the periodic opening of the information is achieved, a periodic information basis is provided for decisions such as business adjustment of a third party, and therefore energy efficiency is improved.

Further, the first function may indicate, based on the information reporting period, that the first function needs to provide the target energy consumption information in the information reporting period, that is, the time of each interval of the information reporting period, and the first function opens the energy consumption information corresponding to the information reporting period to the second function. For example, the first function provides the target energy consumption information corresponding to the past week to the second function every interval, so that the provided target energy consumption information meets the requirements of the third party.

In an exemplary embodiment, the request message further carries third indication information, and the third indication information indicates an event trigger condition.

Based on this, opening the target energy consumption information to the second function may include: and opening the target energy consumption information in an event-triggered mode based on the third indication information.

The event triggering condition refers to a triggering condition that needs to be met by the first function to open the target energy consumption information to the second function. Optionally, the event triggering condition is that when the energy consumption information of the network side meets a preset threshold, the first function opens the target energy consumption information to the second function so as to notify a third party.

Optionally, the event triggering condition may also be that the rate of increase of the energy consumption information at the network side meets a preset rate, and the first function item and the second function send the target energy consumption information to notify a third party.

It can be understood that by setting the event triggering condition, the target energy consumption information can be opened to the third party according to the event triggering condition, so as to be used as the prompt information to instruct the third party to carry out service adjustment or other decisions aiming at the current energy consumption information, and provide guarantee for improving the energy efficiency.

Fig. 3 shows an interactive flow chart of energy consumption information opening according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, and in conjunction with fig. 3, an information opening method of an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 3, where a first function is a sub-function NWDAF, a second function is an AF network element, a fourth function is a NEF network element, and a third function includes an OAM and NF network element as an example. Wherein in this example the request message is sent by the second function through the fourth function.

In step S310, a third party (e.g., an enterprise user) AF subscribes to the NEF for an Event notification request (Nnef _ Event Exposure Subscribe), carries an Event identification (Event ID), and may optionally carry one or more of the first indication information, the second indication information, and the third indication information.

In step S320, the NEF sends a subscription energy consumption information notification (Nnwdaf _ AnalyticscSubscription _subscore) to the first function, and according to the subscription event notification request sent by the AF, the subscription energy consumption information notification carries a corresponding event identifier (ANALYTICS ID), and one or more of the first indication information, the second indication information and the third indication information.

Wherein, the first function needs to increase ANALYTICS ID related to energy consumption, and the ANALYTICS ID is related to the Event ID in step S310, and is used for indicating the energy consumption information requested by the AF.

In step S330, the first function obtains the corresponding energy consumption information as the target energy consumption information according to the event identifier carried in the request message (subscription energy consumption information notification) and one or more of the first indication information, the second indication information and the third indication information.

The first function may acquire energy consumption information at the third function in advance, on the one hand, may acquire energy consumption information from the network function NF network element in the core network through the service interface, that is, send an event open service subscription request (Nnf _ Event Exposure Subscribe) to the network function NF network element, and receive an event open service notification (Nnf _ Event Exposure Notify) sent by the network function NF network element, where the event open service notification carries corresponding energy consumption information. On the other hand, corresponding energy consumption information can be obtained from the OAM.

And finally, the first function collates the obtained energy consumption information to obtain target energy consumption information.

In step S340, the first function opens the target energy consumption information to the second function AF through the NEF.

The first function may send a subscription event notification (Nnwdaf _ AnalyticscSubscription _notify) to the fourth function NEF, and carry target energy consumption information, and send an event open service notification (Nnf _ Event Exposure Notify) to the AF via the fourth function NEF, and carry target energy consumption information, so as to Notify the AF of the target energy consumption information.

According to the information opening method in the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a first function receives a request message sent by a second function, the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function and carries an event identifier, and then the first function determines target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier and opens the target energy consumption information to the second function. On the one hand, the method and the device can open the target energy consumption information of the network side through the first function, so that the information of the network side can be opened to a third party, the third party is guided to adjust business and the like according to the target energy consumption information, and an information basis is provided for improving energy efficiency. On the other hand, the energy consumption information with the required granularity can be opened according to the first indication information carried by the request message, or the energy consumption information can be periodically opened according to the second indication information carried by the request message or in an event-triggered mode according to the third indication information, so that the flexibility of opening the energy consumption information is improved.

Further, the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure also provides an information opening method applied to the second function, as shown in fig. 4, which includes step S410 and step S420. Wherein:

Step S410: sending a request message to a first function, wherein the request message is used for requesting the first function for energy consumption information of an open network side, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

Step S420: and receiving a response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, wherein the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identification.

In an exemplary embodiment, sending a request message to a first function includes: directly sending a request message to a first function; or send a request message to the first function through the fourth function.

Since implementation details of the information opening method applied to the second function according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure have been described in detail in the information opening method applied to the first function, a detailed description thereof is omitted.

In order to implement the method of the first function side of the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, there is also provided an information opening device provided at a first function, as shown in fig. 5, the device 500 includes:

A first receiving unit 510, configured to receive a request message sent by the second function, where the request message is used to request energy consumption information of the network side to the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

and a response unit 520, configured to determine target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier, and open the target energy consumption information to the second function.

Since the details of the respective functional modules of the information opening device of the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure have been described in the exemplary embodiments of the information opening method described above, a detailed description thereof is omitted herein.

It should be noted that although several modules or units of the information opening device are mentioned in the above detailed description, such a division is not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functionality of two or more modules or units described above may be embodied in one module or unit in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Conversely, the features and functions of one module or unit described above may be further divided into a plurality of modules or units to be embodied.

In order to implement the method of the second function side of the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, there is also provided an information opening device provided at the second function, as shown in fig. 6, the device 600 including:

A first sending unit 610, configured to send a request message to a first function, where the request message is used to request energy consumption information of an open network side to the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

and a second receiving unit 620, configured to receive a response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, where the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identifier.

Based on the hardware implementation of the program modules described above, and for the purpose of the method of the first function side of the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a first function is also provided, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented as a system, a method, or a program product. Accordingly, various aspects of the disclosure may be embodied in the following forms, namely: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects may be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" system.

A first function 700 according to such an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 7. The first function 700 shown in fig. 7 is merely an example and should not be construed as limiting the functionality and scope of use of the disclosed embodiments.

As shown in fig. 7, the first functionality 700 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. The first function 700 may include a first processor 710; and a first memory 720 for storing executable instructions of the first processor 710; wherein the first processor 710 is configured to perform an information opening method of the first functional side of the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure via execution of the executable instructions.

Of course, in actual practice, the various components of first function 700 are coupled together via bus system 730. It is understood that bus system 730 is used to enable connected communications between these components. The bus system 730 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus in addition to a data bus. But for clarity of illustration, the various buses are labeled as bus system 730 in fig. 7.

The first memory 720 in the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure is used to store various types of data to support the operation of the first function 700. Examples of such data include: any computer program for operating on the first function 700.

The method disclosed in the above-described exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to the first processor 710 or implemented by the first processor 710. The first processor 710 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the method may be implemented by an integrated logic circuit of hardware or an instruction in software form in the first processor 710. The first processor 710 described above may be a general purpose processor, DSP, or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like. The first processor 710 may implement or perform the methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in embodiments of the present application. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied directly in hardware, in a decoded processor, or in a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoded processor. The software modules may be located in a storage medium located in the first memory 720, and the first processor 710 reads information in the first memory 720 and performs the steps of the method in combination with its hardware.

Based on the hardware implementation of the program modules described above, and for the method of the second function side of the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a second function is also provided, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented as a system, a method, or a program product. Accordingly, various aspects of the disclosure may be embodied in the following forms, namely: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects may be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" system.

A second function 800 according to such an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 8. The second function 800 shown in fig. 8 is merely an example and should not be construed as limiting the functionality and scope of use of the disclosed embodiments.

As shown in fig. 8, the second functionality 800 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. The second function 800 may include a second processor 810; and a second memory 820 for storing executable instructions of the second processor 810; wherein the second processor 810 is configured to perform an information opening method of the second functional side of the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure via execution of the executable instructions.

Of course, in actual practice, the various components in the second function 800 are coupled together by a bus system 830. It is understood that bus system 830 is used to enable connected communications between these components. The bus system 830 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus in addition to the data bus. But for clarity of illustration, the various buses are labeled in fig. 8 as bus system 830.

The second memory 820 in the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure is used to store various types of data to support the second function 800 operation. Examples of such data include: any computer program for operating on the second function 800.

The method disclosed in the above-described exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied to the second processor 810 or implemented by the second processor 810. The second processor 810 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic of hardware or instructions in software form in the second processor 810. The second processor 810 described above may be a general purpose processor, DSP, or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like. The second processor 810 may implement or perform the methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in embodiments of the present application. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied directly in hardware, in a decoded processor, or in a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoded processor. The software module may be located in a storage medium located in the second memory 820, said second processor 810 reading the information in the second memory 820, in combination with its hardware performing the steps of the method as described above.

Furthermore, in exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a computer storage medium capable of implementing the above-described method is also provided. On which a program product is stored which enables the implementation of the method described above in the present specification. In some possible embodiments, the various aspects of the present disclosure may also be implemented in the form of a program product comprising program code for causing a terminal device to carry out the steps according to the various exemplary embodiments of the disclosure as described in the "exemplary methods" section of this specification, when the program product is run on the terminal device.

The disclosed embodiments also provide a program product for implementing the above method, which may employ a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) and include program code, and may be run on a terminal device, such as a personal computer. However, the program product of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and in this document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

The program product may employ any combination of one or more readable media. The readable medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. The readable storage medium can be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or a combination of any of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, random Access Memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), optical fiber, portable compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

The computer readable signal medium may include a data signal propagated in baseband or as part of a carrier wave with readable program code embodied therein. Such a propagated data signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A readable signal medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code embodied on a readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Program code for carrying out operations of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computing device, partly on the user's device, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device, partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of remote computing devices, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computing device (e.g., connected via the Internet using an Internet service provider).

Furthermore, the above-described figures are only schematic illustrations of processes included in the method according to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not intended to be limiting. It will be readily appreciated that the processes shown in the above figures do not indicate or limit the temporal order of these processes. In addition, it is also readily understood that these processes may be performed synchronously or asynchronously, for example, among a plurality of modules.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any adaptations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following the general principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

Claims

1. An information opening method, applied to a first function, comprising:

receiving a request message sent by a second function, wherein the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

and determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier, and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message further carries first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate a granularity level of the energy consumption information;

The determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier further comprises:

And according to the first indication information, determining energy consumption information corresponding to the granularity level of the energy consumption information as the target energy consumption information.

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

Acquiring energy consumption information from a third function;

the third function includes at least one of the following network elements:

network function NF network element in core network;

Operation, maintenance and management (OAM).

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein said determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identification comprises:

And determining the target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier from the acquired energy consumption information.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the granularity level of the energy consumption information comprises at least one of a network slice level, a user equipment, UE, level of network functions, NF, level of applications, and a protocol data unit, PDU, level.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message further carries second indication information, the second indication information being used to indicate an information reporting period;

The opening the target energy consumption information to the second function includes:

and periodically opening the target energy consumption information based on the second indication information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message further carries third indication information, the third indication information indicating an event trigger condition;

And opening the target energy consumption information in an event triggering mode based on the third indication information.

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

The first function is a sub-function of a network data analysis function;

or the first function is an independent network element and is combined with the network data analysis function.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request message sent by the second function comprises:

Directly receiving the request message sent by the second function;

or receiving the request message sent by the second function through the fourth function.

10. An information opening method, applied to a second function, comprising:

A request message is sent to a first function, wherein the request message is used for requesting the energy consumption information of an open network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

And receiving a response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, wherein the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identification.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the sending the request message to the first function comprises:

Directly sending the request message to the first function;

Or sending the request message to the first function through a fourth function.

12. An information opening device, characterized by being provided in a first function, comprising:

The first receiving unit is used for receiving a request message sent by a second function, wherein the request message is used for requesting energy consumption information of a network side from the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

And the response unit is used for determining target energy consumption information corresponding to the event identifier and opening the target energy consumption information to the second function.

13. An information opening device, characterized by being provided in a second function, comprising:

A first sending unit, configured to send a request message to a first function, where the request message is used to request energy consumption information of an open network side to the first function, and the request message at least carries an event identifier;

And the second receiving unit is used for receiving the response of the first function opening target energy consumption information, and the target energy consumption information is determined according to the event identification.

14. A first function, comprising:

a first processor; and

A first memory for storing executable instructions of the first processor;

Wherein the first processor is configured to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 via execution of the executable instructions.

15. A second function, comprising:

A second processor; and

A second memory for storing executable instructions of the second processor;

wherein the second processor is configured to perform the method of claim 10 or 11 via execution of the executable instructions.

16. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the method according to any of claims 1 to 11.