WO2012022143A1

WO2012022143A1 - Method, system and apparatus for dynamically adjusting service route

Info

Publication number: WO2012022143A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/071265
Authority: WO
Inventors: 黄翔
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-08-18
Filing date: 2011-02-24
Publication date: 2012-02-23
Also published as: CN101909014B; CN101909014A

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for dynamically adjusting service route are provided. The method includes that: a service control point of each machine room summarizes the service information of each service platform of the current machine room and reports the information to a service control point of the first area; the service control point of the first area receives the service information of each service platform reported by the service control point of each service room of the current area, and detects the operating states of each service platform, if detected that a load of the first service platform of the first machine room exceeds preset level, then assigns a route change instruction to the first machine room service control point; after the first machine room service control point received the route change instruction, it announces a last hop service platform of the first service platform to change a next hop route of partial service into the second service platform of the second machine room. The application can lead the service from the high load service platform to the lower load service platform, thereby the resource can be maximum utilized and the loads of the whole network are balanced.

Description

Method, system and device for dynamically adjusting service routing

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method, system, and apparatus for dynamically adjusting service routes.

Background technique

The current business platforms are independently constructed and provide separate service addresses. With the expansion of business volume and the need for disaster recovery, each operator and each province has multiple sets of the same business platform in different computer rooms. These business platforms set the regions or users of each service platform service by means of artificial static division. With the development of the business, especially when the regional business is not balanced, there will be some business platform usage rate is not high, but the use of some business platforms has exceeded the design capacity, and can only be adjusted by manual methods. Due to the sudden, periodic, unpredictable nature of the business, this adjustment requires long-term statistics and decision-making processes. After the final decision, the service distribution of the existing network cannot be satisfied, and thus an continuously adjusted cycle is added. The workload of the operator.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a method for periodically monitoring the service load and hardware resource usage of each service platform in each equipment room, and automatically changing the route according to the policy in real time, and guiding the service from a high load service platform to a relatively low load. The business platform, so as to maximize the use of resources and load balancing across the network.

Summary of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method, system and device for dynamically adjusting a service route, and directing a service from a high-load service platform to a service platform with a relatively low load, thereby maximizing the utilization of resources and the entire network. Load balancing.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for dynamically adjusting a service route, including:

Each computer room service control point summarizes the business information of each service platform of the equipment room, and then reports it to the first a regional service control point;

The first area service control point receives the service information of each service platform reported by the service control points of the equipment room in the area, and detects the running status of each service platform. If the load of the first service platform of the first equipment room exceeds a predetermined level, And sending a route change command to the first equipment service control point; after receiving the route change command, the first equipment service control point notifies the previous hop service platform of the first service platform to change the next hop route of the part of the service to The second business platform of the second computer room.

The above method can also have the following characteristics:

Before the step of summarizing the service information of the service platforms of the service room in each of the equipment room control points, the method further includes:

Each of the service processors constituting the service platform periodically reports the information of the respective processed traffic and hardware usage rate to the service control point of the corresponding service platform;

The service control points of the service platforms aggregate the information reported by the respective service processors into the service information of the service platform, and then report the information to the corresponding service control point of the equipment room.

The above method can also have the following characteristics:

The step of the first regional service control point sending a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point includes:

The first area service control point sends a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point according to the nearest routing principle or the preset offload priority principle.

The above method can also have the following characteristics:

The method further includes:

The first regional service control point summarizes service information reported by each computer room service control point in the area, and interacts with the second regional service control point.

When the first area service control point detects that the load of the service platform that processes the first service in the area exceeds a predetermined level, sending a offload request to the second area service control point that processes the first service with the remaining processing capability ;

After receiving the offloading request, the second regional service control point returns one or more addresses of the service platform having the spare capacity to process the first service to the first regional service control point; After receiving the address returned by the second regional service control point, the first regional service control point notifies the previous hop service platform of the service platform that processes the first service to route the next hop of the first service Change to the address returned by the second regional service control point.

The above method can also have the following characteristics:

The step of the first regional service control point sending a traffic off request to the second regional service control point that has the remaining processing capability to process the first service includes:

The first regional service control point sends a traffic off request to the second regional service control point that processes the first service with the remaining processing capability according to the nearest routing principle or the preset splitting priority principle.

The above method may also have the following features: The area is province.

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a system for dynamically adjusting a service route, which includes: a first area service control point, a plurality of equipment room service control points in the area, and a plurality of processing units in each equipment room. The service platform of the service and the service control point corresponding to each service platform, the service control points of each equipment room are set as follows: The service information of each service platform of the local room is summarized, and then reported to the first regional service control point;

The first area service control point is set to: receive service information of each service platform reported by each service room control point of the local area, and detect the running status of each service platform, if the load of the first service platform of the first equipment room is detected to exceed At a predetermined level, a route change instruction is sent to the first equipment room service control point;

The first service room control point is set to: after receiving the route change command, notify the previous hop service platform of the first service platform to change the next hop route of the part of the service to the second service platform of the second equipment room.

The above system can also have the following characteristics:

The service platform is composed of multiple service processors.

Each service processor is configured to: periodically report information about the amount of traffic and hardware usage of each self-processed service control point to the corresponding service platform;

The service control points of the service platforms are also set to: respectively, the information reported by the respective service processors is exchanged with the service information of the service platform, and then reported to the corresponding service control point of the equipment room. The above system can also have the following characteristics:

The first area service control point is configured to send a route change command to the first equipment service control point in the following manner: sending a route change to the first equipment service control point according to the latest routing principle or the preset traffic distribution priority principle instruction.

The above system can also have the following characteristics:

The system also includes a second regional service control point,

The first area service control point is further configured to: summarize the service information reported by the service control points of the equipment room in the area, and interact with the second area service control point; and detect the service platform that processes the first service in the area. If the load exceeds the predetermined level, the second regional service control point that processes the first service with the redundant processing capability is sent a split request; after receiving the address returned by the second regional service control point, the notification processing is performed. The last hop service platform of the service platform of a service changes part of the next hop route of the first service to an address returned by the second area service control point;

The second area service control point is configured to: after receiving the offloading request, return one or more addresses of the service platform having the spare capacity to process the first service to the first area service control point.

The above system can also have the following characteristics:

The first area service control point is configured to send a offload request to the second area service control point that processes the first service by using a redundant processing capability: according to a recent routing principle or a preset offload priority principle, The second regional service control point having the redundant processing capability to process the first service sends a split request.

The above system may also have the following features: The area is province.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a regional service control point, which includes: a service information receiving module, which is configured to: receive service information of each service platform reported by each computer room service control point in the area;

a detecting module, configured to: detect, according to the service information, an operation status of each service platform;

a route adjustment module, configured to: if the detection module detects the first computer room in the area If the load of a service platform exceeds a predetermined level, a route change instruction is sent to the first equipment service control point.

The above service control points can also have the following characteristics:

The route adjustment module is configured to: send a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point according to a recent routing principle or a preset traffic distribution priority.

The above service control points can also have the following characteristics:

The area service control point further includes: a service information interaction module, configured to: summarize the service information reported by the service control points of the equipment room in the local area, and interact with the other regional service control points; the route adjustment module is further configured to And detecting that the load of the service platform that processes the first service in the area exceeds a predetermined level, sending a split request to another area service control point that has the remaining processing capability to process the first service; receiving the another area After the address returned by the service control point, the last hop service platform of the service platform that processes the first service is notified to change part of the next hop route of the first service to the address returned by the another area service control point.

The above service control points can also have the following characteristics:

The route adjustment module is configured to send, in a manner, a traffic off request to another regional service control point that processes the first service with a surplus processing capability: according to a recent routing principle or a preset splitting priority principle, Another regional service control point that is capable of processing the first service sends a offload request.

In summary, the present invention provides a quasi-real-time method, system, and regional service control point for automatically adjusting service dynamic routing, which can periodically monitor service load and hardware resource usage of each service platform in each equipment room, and adopt a recent routing algorithm. Leading the business from a high-loaded service platform to a relatively low-load business platform, thereby maximizing the utilization of resources and load balancing across the entire network, and reducing the workload maintained by operators. Compared with the prior art, the method of the present invention can reduce the unbalanced usage of the service platform caused by the fixed route, and manually increase the workload of the route, and can fully utilize the existing service platform to operate. Network load balancing. BRIEF abstract 1 is a networking diagram of a system for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

2 is a default service flow chart of the dynamic adjustment service routing of the present invention;

3 is a flow chart of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of intra-provincial networking of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

5 is a schematic diagram of a nationwide networking of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

6 is a flowchart of Embodiment 1 of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

7 is a flowchart of Embodiment 2 of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a service flow diagram of dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. Preferred embodiment of the invention

The technical solution of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

1 is a networking diagram of a system for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the system of the present invention includes service platforms, service control points, service room control points, and regional service control points of each service platform. The area of the invention may be a province, a city or a county, etc., the regional service control point in Fig. 1 is a provincial business control point), and the like.

Each service in a computer room has only one service platform. Each service platform consists of multiple service processors. The services can be distributed among the service processors through the four-layer switch (that is, the load balancing device). Each service platform provides a unique address for routing by the previous hop service platform.

The service processor of the service platform can cache routing information, and the general route directly queries the cache until the cache expires or the cache is emptied before the service control point of the service platform queries the service routing information. The content reported by the service processor of the service platform includes: the current traffic volume of the service processor, the usage of the CPU, the memory, and the bandwidth.

Each service platform has a corresponding service control point, and the default service interaction route is in the local room, as shown in Figure 2. The control points of the equipment room can communicate with the service control points of the service platforms in the equipment room. You can know the services that can be provided in the equipment room. The maintenance personnel can set the routing relationship between services, such as the next hop route of service platform 1. When the service platform 2, this completes the setting of the default interactive route. After the service control points of the service platform collect information from each service processor, they are aggregated into the service volume and service load information of the entire service platform, and then sent to the computer room service control point. The service control point of the service platform is also used for the routing change message of the receiver control point, and the routing function of each service processor in the service platform is controlled, and the service status of the service platform (such as traffic volume, hardware resource usage, etc.) is reported to the equipment room. Business control point.

Each computer room service control point reports the operation status of various service platforms in the local room to the provincial service control point. The information of the service control points uploaded to the province includes: service platform name, business platform business volume, service platform load, etc.; receiving provincial business Controls the routing information of the point and forwards the received routing information to the service control points of each service platform.

The provincial control points summarize the usage of various services, and exchange business conditions with other provinces' business control points. If the province's business platform is overloaded, change the routing of some of the province's service platforms to the service platforms of other computer rooms in the province. Business platforms in other provinces.

Specifically, after obtaining the information reported by each computer room, the provincial service control point detects the running status of each service platform of each equipment room. If it detects that the load of the service platform of the equipment room reaches the predetermined load level, the control point is sent to the corresponding equipment room. A part of the service of the high load service platform is routed to a route change instruction of the relatively idle service platform.

That is, the provincial service control point finds that the services of the equipment room need to be diverted to the service platforms of other computer rooms or provinces. According to the provincial priority and the pre-set routing location relationship between the equipment rooms, the service is preferentially diverted to other computer rooms in the province. business platform. The provincial business control points also aggregate the information reported by each computer room to form the traffic volume and load status of each service platform in the province, and interact with the service control points of other provinces. Therefore, the service control points of each province are saved in all provinces. Business and load situation. Once it is found that a certain business situation in the province exceeds the total processing capacity in the province, it requests shunting from the provinces with sufficient processing capacity. After receiving the request, other provinces return a relatively idle business according to the load of the business platform in each computer room in the province. The address of the platform. In the case that the amount of idleness of a service platform cannot be satisfied, the addresses of a plurality of relatively idle service platforms may be returned. The regional service control point of the present invention includes:

a service information receiving module, configured to receive service information of each service platform reported by each service room control point of the local area; a detection module, configured to detect an operation status of each service platform according to the service information; and a route adjustment module, if The detecting module detects that the load of the first service platform of the first equipment room in the area exceeds a predetermined level, and sends a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point.

The route adjustment module is configured to send a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point according to the nearest routing principle or a preset offload priority principle.

The area service control point of the present invention may further include: a service information interaction module, configured to collect service information reported by the service control points of the equipment room in the area, and interact with the other regional service control points; After detecting that the load of the service platform that processes the first service in the area exceeds a predetermined level, sending a offload request to another area service control point that has the remaining processing capability to process the first service; receiving the another area After the address returned by the service control point, the last hop service platform of the service platform that processes the first service is notified to change part of the next hop route of the first service to the address returned by the another area service control point.

The route adjustment module sends a traffic off request to another regional service control point that processes the first service with the remaining processing capability according to the nearest routing principle or the preset splitting priority principle.

3 is a flow chart of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown, the method of the present invention includes the following steps:

S10. The service control points of each service room of the equipment room are summarized and reported to the service control point of the province for reporting the service information of the service platform reported by the service control point of each service platform of the equipment room;

S20. The provincial service control point receives the service information of various service platforms reported by the service control points of the computer room in the province, and detects the running status of the service platforms. If the load of the first service platform of the first equipment room exceeds a predetermined level, for example, If the load has been processed for more than 90% of the processing capacity, the traffic needs to be split. Then, the first hop service platform of the first service platform is sent to the first service room control point to route some services to the second. The routing change command of the second service platform of the equipment room; otherwise, it will not be processed. S30: After receiving the routing change command, the first equipment service control point notifies the previous hop service platform of the first service platform to change the next hop route of the part of the service to the second service platform of the second equipment room. Routing adjustments can also be used to adjust service routes between different provinces across the country.

4 is a schematic diagram of the intranet in the province of the method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, when the service control point of the province detects that the service platform 1 of the equipment room A is overloaded, the service platform 1 of the equipment room A is used. Part of the business is diverted to the business platform 2 of the province's computer room B.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of Embodiment 1 of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5 and referring to FIG. 4, the method in this embodiment mainly includes the following steps:

S101: Each service processor in the service platform periodically reports the processed traffic and the hardware usage rate to the service control point of the service platform, and the service control point summarizes the traffic information and the hardware usage information.

5102. The service control point of each service platform reports the summarized service information to the service control point of the equipment room;

5103. The business control points of each computer room summarize the business information reported by the service control points of each service platform and report them to the provincial business control points;

5104. The service operation status of each service platform reported by the service control point of the province through the control point of the service room. If the load of a service platform exceeds a predetermined level, the service control point is sent to the corresponding service room control point. Part of the service routing route change instruction to the service platform of the other computer room;

For example, the provincial service control point diverts the traffic of the high-load service platform to the service platform of other computer rooms with redundant capabilities according to the recent routing principle. Each province's service control point and computer room service control point can send out each other's heartbeat messages, and then record the corresponding delay. If the delay is short, the route is considered short.

For example, the service route in the equipment room A is sent from the service platform 1 to the service platform 2 by default. The service control point of the province has found that the service platform 2 of the equipment room A has exceeded the load, and the service processing capability of the service platform 2 of the equipment room B has a surplus, and the provincial service control point notifies the service control point of the equipment room 1 The routing of part of the service platform 1 is changed to the service platform 2 of the equipment room B.

5105. The service control point of the equipment room A is forwarded to the service control point of the service platform 1 after receiving the route change instruction issued by the provincial service control point;

5106. The service platform 1 changes the route of the next hop of the service processor in the cluster to the machine room according to the route change command forwarded by the service control point of the equipment room A and the service traffic.

B's business platform 2.

6 is a schematic diagram of a nationwide networking of the method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, when the service control point of the province A detects that the running condition of a certain service in the province exceeds the total processing capacity in the province, the processing is processed. The provinces with surplus capacity B request diversion.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of Embodiment 2 of a method for dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7 and referring to FIG. 5, the method in this embodiment mainly includes the following steps:

Steps S201-S203 are the same as steps S101-S103;

S204. The provincial service control point A summarizes the business information reported by the service control points of the computer room in the province, and interacts with the business information of the provincial business control points B and C;

S205. The service operation status information of each service platform reported by the service control point A of the province is detected by the computer control point, and if the load of the service platform for processing a certain service in the province exceeds a predetermined level, the service is processed to have sufficient capacity to process the service. The provincial service control point B sends a split request;

S206. After receiving the offloading request, the provincial service control point B returns an address of a relatively idle service platform according to the load situation of the corresponding service platform in each computer room of the province;

S207. The provincial service control point A sends the address returned by the provincial service control point B to the previous hop service platform of the overloaded service platform in the province, so that the last hop service platform can change the next hop route of the part of the service to The business platform of the provincial business control point B.

Flow chart of the process of service routing adjustment between provinces and the adjustment of service routing between the province's equipment rooms,

FIG. 8 is a service flow diagram of dynamically adjusting service routing according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the method mainly includes the following steps: 5301. The service processed by the previous hop service platform is submitted to a service processor of the service platform 1 by the load balancing device for processing;

The equipment responsible for balancing can be deployed separately for each service platform, or only one can be deployed in one equipment room. Since the service platform is a cluster consisting of multiple service processors, an IP is provided externally. This IP is provided by the load balancing device. The load balancing device distributes the services sent to the service IP to each service processor.

After the service processor is processed, the service control point of the service platform 1 queries the routing information of the next hop service platform of the service processor.

5303. The service control point of the service platform 1 returns the routing information of the next hop service platform to the corresponding service processor according to the local routing table.

After receiving the routing information, the service processor of the service platform 1 sends the service to the next hop service platform.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be accomplished by a program instructing the associated hardware, such as a read-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the above embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and of course, the present invention may be embodied in various other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Corresponding changes and modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Industrial Applicability The present invention provides a quasi-real-time method and system for automatically adjusting service dynamic routing, which can periodically monitor the service load and hardware resource usage of each service platform in each equipment room. The routing algorithm leads the service from a high-load service platform to a lower-load service platform, thereby maximizing the utilization of resources and load balancing of the entire network, and reducing the workload maintained by the operator. Compared with the prior art, the method of the present invention can reduce the unbalanced usage of the service platform caused by the fixed route, and manually increase the workload of the route, and can fully utilize the existing service platform to operate. Network load balancing.

Claims

Claim

A method for dynamically adjusting a service route, the method comprising:

Each computer room service control point summarizes the service information of each service platform of the equipment room, and then reports it to the first regional service control point;

The method of claim 1, wherein before the step of summarizing the service information of the service platforms of the service room, the method further includes:

The method of claim 1, wherein the step of the first regional service control point issuing a route change command to the first service control point includes:

4. The method of any of claims 1-3, the method further comprising:

The method of claim 4, wherein the step of the first regional service control point sending a offload request to the second regional service control point that has the redundant processing capability to process the first service comprises:

6. The method of claims 1-5, wherein the region is a province.

A system for dynamically adjusting a service route, comprising: a first area service control point, a plurality of equipment room service control points in the area, and a plurality of service platforms each processing a service in each equipment room and each The service control point corresponding to the service platform,

The service control points of the equipment room are set as follows: The service information of each service platform in the local room is summarized, and then reported to the first regional service control point;

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the service platform is formed by a plurality of service processing units.

The service control points of the service platforms are also set to: respectively, the information reported by the respective service processors is exchanged with the service information of the service platform, and then reported to the corresponding service control point of the equipment room.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein

10. The system of any of claims 7-9, the system further comprising a second regional service control point,

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

12. The system of claims 7-11, wherein the area is a province.

13. A regional service control point, which includes:

The service information receiving module is configured to: receive service information of each service platform reported by each computer room service control point in the area;

a detecting module, configured to: detect, according to the service information, an operation status of each service platform; The route adjustment module is configured to: if the detection module detects that the load of the first service platform of the first equipment room in the area exceeds a predetermined level, send a route change instruction to the first equipment service control point.

14. The regional service control point according to claim 13, wherein

The regional service control point according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the regional service control point further includes: a service information interaction module, configured to: summarize service information reported by each computer room service control point in the area, and Other regional business control points interact;

The route adjustment module is further configured to: if it is detected that the load of the service platform that processes the first service in the area exceeds a predetermined level, send a disconnection request to another area service control point that has the remaining processing capability to process the first service. After receiving the address returned by the another area service control point, notify the previous hop service platform of the service platform that processes the first service to change part of the next hop route of the first service to the other The address returned by the regional service control point.

16. The regional service control point according to claim 15, wherein