KR101101614B1 - Service control system and method at end-to-end virtual home network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technology for configuring a virtual home network between a home network and another home network to control and manage services to more accurately control services between home networks, and to implement various services according to a user terminal and an environment. The present invention is a terminal that can be provided with a variety of multimedia services in the home network; A virtual home network service management server for controlling and managing all services occurring in the home network to configure a virtual home network; A home network resource policy server that reserves, modifies, and cancels resources generated in the home network according to the characteristics and the environment of the terminal; A home network resource management agent is provided to receive a reservation, modification, and cancellation command of the home network resource policy server to guarantee a resource to a terminal in the home network.

Virtual home network (VHN), home service control, end-to-end service control

Description

SERVICE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AT END-TO-END VIRTUAL HOME NETWORK}

The present invention relates to a service control and management technology in the end-to-end virtual home network, in particular, by configuring a virtual home network between the home network and other home networks to control and manage services, thereby more precisely controlling services between home networks and The present invention relates to a service control system and method for an end-to-end virtual home network for implementing various services according to a terminal and an environment.

A home network is a set of components that can be connected and integrated with devices installed inside a home to perform various calculation, management, monitoring, and communication functions. A combination of two or more devices that enable sharing and interworking of data and communication. Is done. In addition, the home network is implemented through various networking protocols including Ethernet, telephone lines, power lines, and wireless, and enables function sharing, data sharing, and remote control between networked home digital information devices. . In addition, home networks are responsible for distributing applications and services to Internet access, audio / video streams, home control applications and services, and other networked equipment.

In the conventional home network, there is no technology for supporting end-to-end service control of a service using an IP network, and in the home network environment, the end-to-end virtual home network is configured to control the service and to manage services generated from the home network. There was no technology to do that. In addition, the control function according to the type of service provided in the home network environment was not performed in connection with the end-to-end service.

In the case of various multimedia services used in the conventional home network, only the related terminals are used internally to provide services. As a result, the service of the home network was limited and limited.

However, in recent years, the number of terminals and users using the IP network in the home network is gradually increasing, and the demand for services that can use end-to-end various multimedia services used in the IP network is expected to increase gradually. . In addition, when providing services with other home networks using various services, service control between home networks is required accordingly.

Nevertheless, in the conventional home network, there is no proper technology for controlling and managing services between the home network and other home networks, so that users cannot properly cope with communication and information sharing services required by users. there was.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to establish a virtual home network service management server in a home network, to control services occurring in a home network, and to connect a service between a home network and another home network to enable two-way home network service. It is.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling a service by configuring a virtual home network between home networks according to service types in a home network providing various multimedia services of a user, and managing a end-to-end virtual home network service. .

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be more clearly understood by the following description.

The present invention for achieving the above object,

A terminal receiving various multimedia services in a home network;

A virtual home network service management server for controlling and managing all services occurring in the home network to configure a virtual home network;

A home network resource policy server that reserves, modifies, and cancels resources generated in the home network according to the characteristics and environment of the terminal to guarantee quality of service (QoS);

And a home network resource management agent that guarantees resources to terminals in the home network by receiving a reservation, modification, and termination command of the home network resource policy server.

Preferably, the virtual home network service management server,

A virtual home service analysis and classification unit which receives a service request from various terminals of the home network and classifies and analyzes various service requests of the user through a service message requested by the user;

A home user information and management unit which receives the analyzed information, receives the user information from the user information and the management repository, and determines whether the service is available and records information about the service use;

A virtual home service generation and management unit for determining a service configuration according to a user's service environment and a type of a terminal and managing information on the service environment for generating a service after checking user information;

A user and service generation information management store for storing and managing user information and service information, and storing and managing service type and service environment configuration information according to service generation;

It is composed of a home service resource control management unit that determines a resource required for providing a service in a home network and exchanges information with a home network resource policy server.

The present invention establishes a virtual home network service management server in a home network, controls services occurring in the home network, and connects services between the home network and other home networks to enable two-way home network services. Depending on the terminal and the environment, there is an effect that can provide a variety of services in the home network.

In addition, the present invention adds a new service function in a home network or stores and manages a user profile, thereby verifying service information and user information between end-to-end virtual home networks and configuring a service environment between users. Functions and the like are easily implemented.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a virtual home network to which a virtual home network service management server according to the present invention is applied. As shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of home network terminals 100 connected to an IP network in a home network and virtual home network service management are illustrated in FIG. The server 200, the home network resource policy server 300, and the home network resource management agent 400 are configured.

FIG. 1 exemplarily shows a system configuration connected to IP networks of two regions, and is connected to the same configuration in another region. Here, the virtual home network service management server 200 has the same structure as the virtual home network service management server of another region. That is, the present invention adds a virtual home network service management server 200 to a conventional home network service structure to manage services between virtual home networks.

The terminal 100 may be implemented as various devices such as an IPTV, a set-top box, a mobile device (eg, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant) that can use an IP network in a home network.

The virtual home network service management server 200 performs a function of controlling a service occurring inside the home network or manages related information.

The home network resource policy server 300 ensures the quality of service (QoS) required for the service in the virtual home network service management server 200, and issues a modification or cancellation command for the QoS and is related to home network resources. It is responsible for managing information.

The home network resource management agent 400 guarantees the resources required for the user terminal 100 according to the request of the home network resource policy server 300, and modifies or modifies the resources from the home network resource policy server 300. Get a termination order.

Based on such a structure, a virtual home network can be implemented to control services between end-to-end and manage services information required for end-to-end to provide a service in a virtual home network.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram showing an implementation of the virtual home network service management server in FIG. 1, as shown in FIG. 1; A home user information checking and managing unit 220; A virtual home service generation and management unit 230; A home service resource control and management unit 240; User and service generation information management storage 250 is configured.

The virtual home service information analysis and classification unit 210 analyzes a message about a service requested by a user and transmits the analysis result and related information to the home user information identification and management unit 220.

In this regard, the home user information confirmation and management unit 220 receives user information from the user and service generation information management storage 250 to identify the user, and the virtual home service generation and management unit 230 to generate information required for service generation. To pass on. In addition, the home user information checking and managing unit 220 stores and manages information related to a user environment in the user and service generation information management storage 250.

The virtual home service generation and management unit 230 stores the service creation related information requested by the user in the user and service generation information management storage 250 and performs service control through modification. The virtual home service generation and management unit 230 constructs environment information and information necessary for service control according to service generation and transmits the information to the home service resource control and management unit 240.

In this regard, the home service resource control and management unit 240 defines a QoS guarantee according to the type of service requested by the user, and connects with an external home network resource policy server 300 through a prescribed resource control to transmit related information. Home network resource control is thereby managed.

On the other hand, Figure 3 is a flow chart of the service control method in the end-to-end virtual home network applied to the virtual home network to which the virtual home network service management server according to the present invention in FIG. 1, it will be described in detail as follows.

Here, when a system configuration connected to IP networks of two regions (for example, A and B regions) is used as an example, the terminal located in region A is “300A” to the home network support policy server and “300A” to the virtual home network service management server. The symbol "200A" is assigned, and the terminal located in the region B is assigned the symbol "300B" to the home network support policy server "100B" and the symbol "200B" to the virtual home network service management server.

A user in the region A makes a service request for the terminal 100B located in the region B to the virtual home network service management server 200A through the terminal 100A (S301).

In response to this, the virtual home network service management server 200A analyzes and classifies the service information requested from the terminal 100A and checks the information on the user who requested the service (S302).

Thereafter, the virtual home network service management server 200A makes an end-to-end service request to the virtual home network service management server 200B located in region B and transmits related information (S303).

Accordingly, the virtual home network service management server 200B of the region B analyzes and classifies the service information received from the virtual home network service management server 200A of the region A and uses the user of the terminal 100B located in the region B. FIG. Check the information (S304).

As such, the virtual home network service management server 200B checks the user information of the terminal 100B located in the region B, and then checks whether the user of the terminal 100B accepts the service request from the user of the region A. (S305)

In response to this, the user in the region B responds to the virtual home network service management server 200B through the terminal 100B to accept the service request from the user in the region A (S306).

At this time, the virtual home network service management server 200B generates service information for configuring a virtual home network and stores related information (S307).

In addition, the virtual home network service management server 200B responds to an end-to-end service request and transmits related information to the virtual home network service management server 200A in the region A (S308).

Accordingly, the virtual home network service management server 200A requests a home network resource policy server 300A for a home network resource control service based on the service response information from the virtual home network service management server 200B. S309)

On the other hand, the home network resource policy server 300A analyzes the message received from the virtual home network service management server 200A and checks home network resource control service information and QoS information for the user (S310).

The home network resource policy server 300A checks the resource control service information of the region A and transmits end-to-end resource control information to the home network resource policy server 300B of the region B (S311).

Thereafter, the two home network resource policy servers 300A and 300B provide a home network resource control service necessary for end-to-end service (S312).

In addition, the home network resource policy server 300B of the region B may transmit information (end-to-end resource control service preparation completion information) of the resource control service of the region B home network to the home network resource policy server 300A of the region A. (S313)

In response to this, the home network resource policy server 300A responds to the virtual home network service management server 200A to notify that the home network resource control service preparation is completed (S314).

Accordingly, the virtual home network service management server 200A responds to the terminal 100A in the region A to inform that the terminal 100A in the region B is ready for service connection with the terminal 100A in operation S315.

As a result, a connection for end-to-end service between the terminal 100A in the region A and the terminal 100B in the region B is made through the series of service connection control processes as described above (S316).

Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and may be implemented in various embodiments based on the basic concept of the present invention defined in the following claims. Such embodiments are also within the scope of the present invention.

1 is an overall block diagram of a service control system in an end-to-end virtual home network of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the virtual home network service management server in FIG. 1; FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a service control method in an end-to-end virtual home network according to the present invention.

*** Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings ***

100: terminal

200: virtual home network service management server

210: virtual home service information analysis and classification unit

220: home user information verification and management

230: virtual home service creation and management

240: home service resource control and management

250: user and service creation information management repository

300: home network resource policy server

400: home network resource management agent

Claims (7)

A terminal receiving various multimedia services in a home network; A virtual home network service management server for controlling and managing a service requiring resource control occurring in the home network to configure a virtual home network; A home network resource policy server for reserving, modifying, and canceling the traffic resources generated from the home network according to the characteristics and environment of the terminal to guarantee the quality of service; The home network resource management agent is configured to receive a reservation, modification, and cancellation command of the home network resource policy server to guarantee traffic resources to terminals in the home network. The virtual home network service management server receives a service request from various terminals of a home network, and includes a virtual home service analysis and classification unit for classifying and analyzing various service requests of a user based on a service message requested by the user; A home user information and management unit which receives the analyzed information, receives the user information from the user information and the management repository, and determines whether the service is available and records information about the service use; A virtual home service generation and management unit for determining a service configuration according to a user's service environment and a type of a terminal and managing information on the service environment for generating a service after checking user information; A user and service generation information management store that stores and manages user information and service information, and stores and manages service type and service environment configuration information according to service generation; A service control system in an end-to-end virtual home network comprising a home service resource control management unit for determining a resource required for providing a service in a home network and exchanging information with a home network resource policy server. The system of claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises any one or more of an IPTV, a set-top box, a mobile phone, and a personal digital assistant. delete The service control system of claim 1, further comprising a home user information checking and managing unit storing and managing information related to a user environment in the user and service generation information management repository. The end-to-end virtual home network of claim 1, wherein the virtual home service generation and management unit stores the service creation related information requested by the user in the user and service generation information management repository and performs service control through modification. Service control system in. The service control system of claim 1, wherein the home service resource control manager defines QoS guarantees according to a service type requested by a user. After the virtual home network service management server in region A receives a service request from a terminal in the same region with a terminal in region B, checks the information of the user who requested the service, and then requests end-to-end service to the virtual home network service management server in region B. And a first process of delivering related information; The virtual home network service management server of the region B checks the user information of the terminal B region from the service information received from the virtual home network service management server of the region A, requests the terminal to accept the service, and then receives the virtual home network service management server. A second step of responding to an end-to-end service request to a network service management server and delivering related information; The home network resource policy server in region A receives the resource control service request from the virtual home network service management server in the same region, checks the home network resource control service information and QoS information for the user, and then connects to the home network resource policy server in region B. A third process of transmitting end-to-end resource control information and receiving end-to-end resource control service preparation completion information therefrom; After the virtual home network service management server in the region A receives a response from the home network resource policy server in the same region to indicate that the home network resource control service is ready, the terminal in the region is ready for service with the region B terminal. And a fourth step of making a response so that the service connection is made with the terminal of the region B. The service control method of the end-to-end virtual home network, comprising: a;

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