JPH10308964A - Traffic information collection system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize high efficiency of service management and operation by providing a means to collect traffic information related to communication supplied by respective SLP for a service logic program(SLP) itself where a processing means related to communication service is mentioned. SOLUTION: Whenever SLP for communication service 22a requested from communication terminals 11a and 11b is started, an SLP execution control function part 21 gives a control instruction to a traffic information generation function part 23 in accordance with the generation means of traffic information which is previously mentioned. Traffic information for individual communication services requested by the communication terminals 11a and 11b are generated by instructing the control of the counter. A network service control node 20 allocates several counters for respective SLP and programs the counter control in the SLP them selves at the time of collecting statistical traffic information which are to be collected for respective types of services. Thus, traffic information depending on services can be collected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technology for collecting traffic information by a network service control node in an intelligent network for providing various communication services such as an automatic call charging service, a toll-free service, and a Q2 service. The present invention relates to a traffic information collection system that enables quick collection of traffic information relating to a communication service.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A network service control node constituting an intelligent network provides a variety of communication services such as an automatic call charging service, a toll-free service, and a Q2 service. Statistical traffic information is being collected. Conventionally, the collection of this traffic information is limited to the collection of traffic statistical information fixedly determined by the system.

As described above, in the conventional traffic information collecting technology, the traffic information that can be collected is fixedly determined in advance in the system, and traffic statistics information of a new communication service desired by a customer or a network operator is obtained. It was difficult to collect. In order to make it possible to collect such new traffic information, it is necessary to add a function to the system program, and it takes an enormous amount of time and money from the generation of the collection request to the realization of the collection. Incidentally, the traffic management in the network is described in, for example, pages 2050 and 2051 of "Electronic Information and Communication Handbook" (published by Ohmsha, 1988) edited by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

[0004]

A problem to be solved in the prior art is that it is required to quickly and efficiently respond to a request from a customer or a network operator to collect traffic statistical information of a new communication service. Is not possible. An object of the present invention is to solve these problems of the prior art,
An object of the present invention is to provide a traffic information collection system that enables highly efficient service management and operation in an intelligent network.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a traffic information collecting system according to the present invention comprises a service logic program (SL) which is loaded into a network service control node and describes a processing procedure for each communication service.
P) itself is provided with a procedure for collecting traffic information relating to the communication service provided by each SLP, so that the update condition of the traffic information is changed or added only by adding or modifying the SLP. It is characterized by the following.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the configuration of an intelligent network system provided with a network service control node provided with the traffic information collection system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 10a,
10b is an exchange which can be connected by the common channel signaling method, 11
a and 11b are communication terminals accommodated in the exchanges 10a and 10b, 20 is a network service control node that applies a communication service corresponding to a request from the communication terminals 11a and 11b, and 30 is a service that performs network management of the entire network. The management / operation device 40 is a service generation environment for generating a service logic program (SLP) used for executing each communication service.

In the network service control node 20, an SLP execution control function unit 21 for executing an SLP corresponding to a communication service in response to a service activation request from the exchanges 10a and 10b, and a service generated by the service generation environment 40 SLP2 downloaded from the management / operation device 30
There is provided a management function unit 22 for storing 2a and a traffic information generation function unit 23 for generating traffic information according to the present invention. Each time the SLP for the communication service requested from the communication terminals 11a and 11b is activated, this SLP
The SLP execution control function unit 21 instructs the traffic information generation function unit 23 to control the counter according to the traffic information generation procedure described in advance in
It generates traffic information for each communication service requested by the communication terminals 11a and 11b.

In particular, the traffic information generation function unit 23 in the present embodiment includes a traffic counter management function unit 23a, and the traffic counter management function unit 23a generates traffic information. In other words, the traffic counter management function unit 23a sets a counter 23b for each request item accessed by the SLP (described as "CNT" in the figure).
Counter 2 based on an instruction from the SLP.
3b is counted, and the counted counter value is held as traffic information. The network service control node 20 updates the counter values held by the traffic information generation function unit 23 periodically or in the service management / operation device 30.
The service management / operation device 30 is notified according to the instruction from.

The operation of collecting traffic information when executing service control of a certain service in a network having such a configuration will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation example according to the present invention in the intelligent network in FIG. 1. First, the communication terminal 11a requests the exchange 10a to start a service using specific dial information. On this occasion,
The exchange 10a sends the network service control node 20 a
Request to start service control.

The network service control node 20 has a service management / operation device 3
The execution of the SLP 22a downloaded from S0 and stored in the SLP management function unit 22 is started. SLP22a
Is a program that includes logic for controlling individual services.
By transmitting the operation control instruction 0a from the SLP execution control function unit 21 to the exchange 10a, service control in the intelligent network is performed.

Here, consider a specific occasion depending on the service specification, for example, a case where it is desired to count occurrences when the telephone number of the communication terminal 11a on the calling side indicates a telephone number in a specific area. In such a case, the SLP 22a checks whether the trigger has occurred, that is, in the case described above, whether the upper digit of the telephone number of the communication terminal 11a on the calling side matches the specific digit string. If they match, a specific counter in the traffic counter management function unit 23a according to the present invention is designated and updated. The specification of a specific opportunity depending on the service specification and the specification of the counter to be updated are all performed by the program in the SLP 22a.

As described above, in the network service control node 20 of the present embodiment, when collecting traffic statistical information that needs to be collected for each of various services, for each SLP,
Allocate some counters and control their counters by S
By programming the LP itself, SLP can collect traffic information depending on various service specifications.
It can be realized by programming. The update of the counter characterized by the communication service is performed by the SLP.
Since this can be realized by the instruction from the network service control node 20, it is possible to immediately respond to a change in the conditions for collecting service-specific traffic data and addition of a collection item without affecting the system program of the network service control node 20.

On the other hand, the network service control node 20 updates the counter values of all the counters held by the traffic counter management function unit 23a at regular time intervals, or at a specific time or when specified by a maintenance operator. , To the service management / operation device 30. The service management / operation device 30 previously receives, from the service generation environment 40 at the time of generating the SLP, information as to when each counter is updated from which SLP when each counter is used. Matching traffic information can be obtained.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, according to the traffic information collecting system of the present embodiment,
Since the SLP instructs the update of the counter characterized by the service, it is not necessary to be aware of the update condition of each counter in the system program of the network service control node 20, and the system program of the network service control node 20 can be deployed. It is only necessary to determine the total number of counters that can be used by those SLPs as system operation conditions based on the number of SLPs to be used, and to notify the service management / operation device 30 of the values of those counters only. good.
The counter update condition can be changed or added only by adding or modifying the SLP.

Further, the system program of the network service control node 20 only needs to have a function of notifying the traffic information generated by the SLP to the higher-level service management / operation device 30. There is no need to be conscious about the etc. The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, and can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof. For example, in this example, a configuration is shown in which one service management / operation device 30 manages one network service control node 20, but one service management / operation device 3
0 may be used to connect and manage a plurality of network service control nodes.

[0016]

According to the present invention, it is possible to quickly and efficiently respond to a request for collecting traffic statistical information of a new communication service from a customer or a network operator, and to perform service management and operation in an intelligent network. Higher efficiency is possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the configuration of an intelligent network system provided with a network service control node having a traffic information collection system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation example according to the present invention in the intelligent network in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

10a, 10b: exchange, 11a, 11b: communication terminal,
20: network service control node, 21: SLP execution control function unit, 22: SLP management function unit, 22a: SLP (service logic program), 23: traffic information generation function unit, 23a: traffic counter management function unit, 23
b: counter (CNT), 30: service management / operation device, 40: service generation environment.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A traffic information collecting system in a network service control node for providing a communication service requested by a communication terminal via an exchange constituting an intelligent network, comprising: a program for a communication service requested by the communication terminal. When (SLP) starts, the S
A traffic information generating means for generating traffic information for each communication service based on a procedure for generating traffic information described in advance in the LP; and adding / modifying the traffic information to be collected by adding / modifying the SLP. Traffic information collecting system. 2. The traffic information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein said traffic information generating means has one or more counters assigned to each of said SLPs, and controls the counting operation of said counters in advance to said SLPs. A traffic information collection system, which performs the described procedure and uses the count value of the counter based on the procedure as the traffic information. 3. The traffic information collection system according to claim 1, wherein said traffic information generating means outputs said generated traffic information at a predetermined time or manually. A traffic information collecting system, comprising means for holding until called based on the traffic information.