WO2021031889A1

WO2021031889A1 - Upgrade method, communication device and computer-readable storage medium

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Publication number: WO2021031889A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/107883
Authority: WO
Inventors: 邹善席
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2019-08-16
Filing date: 2020-08-07
Publication date: 2021-02-25
Also published as: CN112398673A

Abstract

Provided in embodiments of the present invention are an upgrade method, a communication device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: selecting some communication devices to be upgraded from among communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading; optionally, after some of the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded, said devices serve as upgraded communication devices and send an upgrade file to adjacent communication devices to be upgraded; and optionally, the adjacent communication devices to be upgraded are upgraded according to the upgrade file. Thus, the problems in the prior art in which upgrade time for communication devices is long, the load on a server is heavy, and efficiency is low are solved. Furthermore, by means of the upgrade method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium provided in embodiments of the present invention, some communication devices to be upgraded are upgraded first, and then the communication devices which have completed upgrading are used to share the upgrade load and balance the load, thus improving upgrade efficiency to a great extent while simultaneously improving the reliability and usability of communication devices.

Description

Upgrade method, communication equipment and computer readable storage medium

Technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communication device upgrades, and more specifically, to an upgrade method, a communication device, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background technique

Communication equipment has high requirements for safety, reliability, efficiency, and real-time performance. Traditional communication equipment upgrade methods are increasingly unable to meet the needs of 5G network development. At present, in order to meet the safety and functional integrity of communication equipment, communication The equipment has to be updated at a high frequency. As shown in Figure 1, the existing traditional C/S upgrade mode. All connected communication equipment is upgraded through a server, which has the following obvious defects:

First, the reliability is low. The server has to upgrade all communication equipment. The load is large and it is prone to failures, causing the communication equipment to freeze, crash, and repeat resets during the upgrade, and the reliability is low.

Second, it seriously reduces the efficiency and real-time performance of communication equipment. With the existing communication equipment upgrade technology, the communication equipment must interrupt business processing during the upgrade process, which seriously reduces the efficiency and real-time performance of the communication equipment.

Third, the equipment upgrade time is long. The current communication equipment upgrade method supports parallel upgrades. However, due to the performance of the server, the number of communication devices that can be upgraded in parallel at the same time is limited, resulting in a long upgrade time, which is not suitable for large-scale communication equipment. upgrade.

At the same time, because the environment in which the business platform is deployed is usually composed of hundreds to thousands of servers, and even some business platforms are composed of tens of thousands of servers, the traditional upgrade method takes a long time and is low in efficiency and reliability. It can be seen that, in the prior art, the upgrade time of communication equipment is long, the server load is heavy, and the efficiency is low.

Summary of the invention

The upgrade method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present invention mainly solve the technical problems that the communication device in the prior art has a long upgrade time, a heavy server load, and low efficiency.

To solve the above technical problems, an embodiment of the present invention provides an upgrade method, including:

Select part of the communication equipment to be upgraded in the communication equipment to be upgraded for upgrading;

After the part of the communication equipment to be upgraded is successfully upgraded, it is regarded as the upgraded communication equipment, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication equipment to be upgraded;

The adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file.

The embodiment of the present invention also provides a communication device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a communication bus;

The communication bus is configured to realize connection and communication between the processor and the memory;

The processor is configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the upgrade method described above.

The embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, and the computer-readable storage medium stores one or more programs, and the one or more programs can be executed by one or more processors to implement the upgrade method described above A step of.

The beneficial effects of the embodiments of the present invention are:

The upgrade method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiment of the present invention are upgraded by selecting part of the communication devices to be upgraded among the communication devices to be upgraded. Optionally, some communication devices to be upgraded are regarded as upgraded communication devices after being successfully upgraded. Device, the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded. Optionally, the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file; it solves the problem of long upgrade time, heavy server load and low efficiency of communication equipment in the prior art. problem. That is, in the upgrade method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiment of the present invention, part of the communication device to be upgraded is first upgraded, and then the upgraded communication device is used to share the upgrade load and balance the load, which greatly improves the upgrade Efficiency, while improving the reliability and availability of communication equipment.

Other features and corresponding beneficial effects of the embodiments of the present invention are described in the latter part of the specification, and it should be understood that at least part of the beneficial effects will become obvious from the description in the specification of the present invention.

Description of the drawings

The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments. In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a schematic structural diagram of upgrading existing communication equipment;

2 is a schematic diagram of the basic flow of an upgrade method provided by Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an upgrade method provided by Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of the basic flow of an upgrade method provided by Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a process of obtaining an upgrade file through a get method according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a process for obtaining an upgrade file in a put mode according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a first communication device according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a second communication device according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a third communication device provided by Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

detailed description

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present invention clearer, the following further describes the embodiments of the present invention in detail through specific implementations in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the present invention, but not to limit the present invention.

Example one:

In order to solve the problems of long upgrade time of communication equipment, heavy server load, and low efficiency in the prior art, an upgrade method is provided in the embodiment of the present invention, by selecting part of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading, Optionally, some of the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded as upgraded communication devices, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication devices to be upgraded. Optionally, the adjacent communication devices to be upgraded are upgraded according to the upgrade file; see Figure 2 As shown, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the basic flow of the upgrade method provided in this embodiment.

S201: Select part of the communication devices to be upgraded among the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrade.

It should be noted that the communication equipment in this embodiment includes, but is not limited to, any form of communication equipment such as network elements. In actual applications, it can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before selecting some of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading, the method further includes:

Classify the communication devices to be upgraded according to the device model, and classify the communication devices to be upgraded with the same device model into the same type;

Optionally, selecting part of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading in the communication devices to be upgraded includes:

Select part of the communication devices to be upgraded from various types of communication devices to be upgraded for upgrade.

For a better understanding, here is a more specific example for illustration:

For example, suppose there are 90 communication devices to be upgraded, and the 90 communication devices to be upgraded are divided into three categories based on the same device model. Among them, the communication devices to be upgraded with numbers 1-30 are the first type, and those with numbers 31-60 The communication device to be upgraded is of the second type, and the communication devices to be upgraded with reference numbers 61-90 are of the third type; optionally, some of the communication devices to be upgraded are selected from the first, second, and third types of communication devices to be upgraded. The communication equipment is upgraded. For example, the communication equipment to be upgraded with label 1 is selected from the communication equipment to be upgraded of the first type for upgrade, and the communication equipment to be upgraded with label 31 is selected from the communication equipment to be upgraded of the second type for upgrade, The communication device to be upgraded with the number 61 is selected from the communication device to be upgraded of the third type to be upgraded.

It should be understood that "part" refers to the number of communication devices to be upgraded in the first type, second type, and third type. As in the above example, "part" should be greater than or equal to 1 and less than 30. It is worth noting that in actual applications, "parts" need to be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

In this embodiment, selecting part of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading in the communication devices to be upgraded includes:

In some examples, some communication devices to be upgraded are selected from the communication devices to be upgraded, and the server performs the upgrade.

In some examples, some communication devices to be upgraded are selected from the communication devices to be upgraded, and the upgrade is performed manually.

S202: After some of the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded, they are regarded as upgraded communication devices, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication devices to be upgraded.

It should be understood that part of the communication equipment to be upgraded in this embodiment is successfully upgraded as an upgraded communication equipment, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication equipment to be upgraded, where “adjacent” refers to the upgraded communication equipment and The communication equipment to be upgraded is connected through optical fiber, network cable, etc., or through wireless Vlan. It is worth noting that what are listed here are only several common connection modes, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to these several connection modes. In actual applications, it can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before sending the upgrade file to the neighboring communication device to be upgraded, it further includes:

The upgraded communication device compares the device model and software version number of the upgraded communication device and the adjacent communication device to be upgraded. When the device model is the same and the software version number is different, it is determined that the upgrade conditions are met, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded .

It should be understood that communication devices with the same device model have the same upgrade files required for upgrading, and when the software version number is different, it means that the current communication device to be upgraded has not been upgraded. Therefore, when the device model is the same and the software version number is different At the same time, it is determined that the upgrade conditions are met, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before comparing the device models and software version numbers of some communication devices to be upgraded and adjacent communication devices to be upgraded, it further includes:

The upgraded communication device sends a request for the device model and software version to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded;

After receiving the device model and software version request, the neighboring communication device to be upgraded sends the device model and software version number to the upgraded communication device.

The upgraded communication device sends an upgrade request to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded;

When the adjacent communication device to be upgraded receives the upgrade request, it sends a request to obtain the upgrade file to the upgraded communication device;

When the upgraded communication device receives the upgrade file request, it sends the upgrade file to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded.

S203: The adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade fails, it further includes:

Obtain configuration information and business data from the database to roll back to the previous software version based on the configuration information and business data.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade fails/successfully, it further includes:

In some examples, the upgrade failure/success notification is sent to the upgraded communication device, and the upgraded communication device sends the upgrade failure/success notification to the server; thus, the staff can solve the upgrade exception correspondingly according to the upgrade failure notification.

In some examples, an upgrade failure/success notification is sent to the server; thus, the staff can resolve the upgrade exception according to the upgrade failure notification.

In this embodiment, optionally, the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade is successful, it is regarded as an upgraded communication device, which further includes:

Send the upgrade file to its neighboring communication devices to be upgraded. The neighboring communication devices to be upgraded will be upgraded according to the upgrade files, and iteratively, until all the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded; that is, S202 and S203 need to be repeated until all the The upgraded communication equipment was successfully upgraded.

For a better understanding, here is a more specific example for illustration:

For example, suppose that there are 30 communication devices to be upgraded, all of which belong to the same device model, with labels 1-30, respectively, and the communication device to be upgraded with label 1 is selected for upgrade, and the upgrade is successful as the upgraded communication device; Optionally, the upgraded communication device labeled 1 sends the upgrade file to the adjacent communication devices labeled 2 and 3 to be upgraded, and the communication devices labeled 2 and 3 to be upgraded are upgraded according to the upgrade file. After success, it is regarded as an upgraded communication device; optionally, the upgraded communication device labeled 2 will send the upgrade file to the adjacent communication devices labeled 5, 6, 7 to be upgraded, labeled 5, 6, 7 The communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and it will be regarded as the upgraded communication device after the upgrade is successful; at the same time, the upgraded communication device with label 3 will send the upgrade file to the adjacent waiting communication device with labels 8, 9, 10 Upgrade communication equipment. The communication equipment to be upgraded with labels 8, 9, and 10 are upgraded according to the upgrade file. After the upgrade is successful, they will be regarded as upgraded communication equipment. The cycle is similar. The process is similar. This time I will not repeat it until 30 to be upgraded. The communication equipment has been upgraded.

It should be understood that the number of cycles is determined by the number of selected communication devices to be upgraded from the communication devices to be upgraded and the neighbor relationship between the communication devices. In actual applications, it needs to be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

The upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention first upgrades part of the communication equipment to be upgraded, and then uses the upgraded communication equipment to upgrade other communication equipment to be upgraded, which solves the problem of the long upgrade time and server load of the communication equipment in the prior art. Compared with the existing upgrade method, it has at least the following advantages:

First, it reduces the total time consumed for large-scale, large-scale equipment upgrades. The traditional upgrade method is limited by the performance of the server, and the number of devices that can be upgraded in parallel at the same time is small, and it takes a long time to upgrade the equipment. Not limited by server performance, it can upgrade a large number of devices at the same time, especially suitable for scenarios with many devices to be upgraded.

Second, the dependence on the server becomes smaller. Even if the server fails during the upgrade process, the successfully upgraded communication device can still complete the upgrade of the communication device to be upgraded.

Third, the impact on the business during the upgrade process is small. Because it is a distributed and parallel upgrade, a considerable part of the equipment to be upgraded and the upgraded equipment are used to process the business, which reduces the time spent on upgrading as a whole and reduces the server upgrade load , Improve the reliability and efficiency of communication equipment.

Fourth, the server load is reduced. The distributed intelligent diffusion upgrade utilizes multiple communication devices to share the upgrade load and balance the load, which not only solves the bottleneck problem of single server upgrade in traditional communication equipment, but also improves the reliability and availability of the network system .

Example two:

On the basis of the first embodiment, the embodiment of the present invention takes a more specific upgrade method process as an example for description.

This embodiment is described by taking the communication device as a network element as an example.

First, please refer to Figure 3, which is a schematic structural diagram of the upgrade method provided in this embodiment, including the following steps:

Step 1. The server upgrades the network element 1.

Step two, the first network element is successfully upgraded, and the first network element sends the upgrade file to its neighboring network element two, network element three, network element four, network element five, network element two, network element three, network element four, network Yuan five upgraded according to the upgrade file, and the upgrade was successful.

Step 3: The network element four sends the upgrade file to the adjacent network element n, and the network element n is upgraded according to the upgrade file. The upgrade is successful, and all network elements are upgraded.

Secondly, please refer to FIG. 4, which is a schematic flowchart of the upgrade method provided in this embodiment, including the following steps:

S401. The server upgrades the network element A to be upgraded.

S402: After the network element A is successfully upgraded, start the upgrade process and transmission service.

S403: The network element A sends a request for the device model and software version number to the neighboring network element B.

S404. After receiving the request for the device model and software version number of the network element A, the neighboring network element B sends its own device model and software version number message to the network element A.

S405. Network element A receives the message of its own device model and software version number of network element B, and compares the device model and software version number of the two.

S406: When the comparison result is that the device models are the same and the software version numbers are different, the network element A sends an upgrade request to the network element B.

S407: After receiving the upgrade request from the network element A, the network element B starts the upgrade process and the transmission service.

S408: The network element B sends a request to obtain the upgrade file to the network element A.

S409. After receiving the request from the network element B to obtain the upgrade file, the network element A sends the upgrade file to the network element B through the transmission service.

S4010. After receiving the upgrade file, the network element B activates the upgrade file, performs the upgrade according to the upgrade file, and the upgrade is completed.

Repeat S402 to S4010, the only difference is that the network element A is replaced with the adjacent network element B, and the network element B is replaced with the adjacent network element N, until all the network elements are upgraded.

In the upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a part of the network elements to be upgraded is selected for upgrading among the network elements to be upgraded. Optionally, some of the network elements to be upgraded are successfully upgraded as the upgraded network elements, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent The network element to be upgraded, optionally, the adjacent network element to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file; this solves the problems of long network element upgrade time, heavy server load, and low efficiency in the prior art. That is, the upgrade method provided by the embodiment of the present invention first upgrades some of the network elements to be upgraded, and then uses the upgraded network elements to upgrade its neighboring network elements, and loops in turn until all network elements are successfully upgraded, thereby realizing load sharing of the server , The rapid spread of the upgrade package enables rapid upgrade of large-scale network elements. Even if the server fails during the upgrade process, the upgraded network element can still be upgraded to the neighboring network element to be upgraded, and the reliability is greatly enhanced.

Example three:

On the basis of the first and second embodiments, the embodiment of the present invention uses the C/S mode to transmit the upgrade file, and there are two transmission methods:

The first transmission method is that the upgraded communication device serves as the server, and the adjacent communication device that meets the upgrade conditions serves as the client;

The second transmission method is that the upgraded communication device serves as the client, and the adjacent communication device that meets the upgrade conditions serves as the server.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is a schematic diagram of the process of obtaining the upgrade file through the get method provided in this embodiment, including the following steps:

S501. Configure the upgraded communication device A as a server.

S502: The communication device A sends an upgrade request to the neighboring communication device B to be upgraded.

S503: After receiving the upgrade request, the communication device B configures itself as a client.

S504: The communication device B sends a request for obtaining an upgrade file to the communication device A.

S505: After receiving the request for obtaining the upgrade file, the communication device A sends the upgrade file to the communication device B.

S506: The communication device B receives the upgrade file, and performs the upgrade according to the upgrade file.

Please refer to FIG. 6, which is a schematic diagram of the process of obtaining the upgrade file through put method provided in this embodiment, including the following steps:

S601. Configure the upgraded communication device A as a client.

S602: Send an upgrade request to the neighboring communication device B to be upgraded.

S603: After receiving the upgrade request, the communication device B configures itself as a server.

S604: The communication device B sends a confirmation upgrade request to the communication device A.

S605: After receiving the confirmation upgrade request, the communication device A sends the upgrade file to the communication device B.

S606. The communication device B receives the upgrade file, and performs the upgrade according to the upgrade file.

Embodiment four:

In order to solve the problems of long upgrade time of communication equipment, heavy server load and low efficiency in the prior art, a communication equipment is provided in an embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to FIG. 7. The communication equipment provided in this embodiment includes processing 701 and memory 702.

Wherein, the processor 701 in this embodiment is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory 702 to implement the following steps:

After part of the communication equipment to be upgraded is successfully upgraded, it will be regarded as upgraded communication equipment, and the upgrade file will be sent to the adjacent communication equipment to be upgraded;

The adjacent communication equipment to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file.

Optionally, in an example, referring to FIG. 8, the communication device further includes a communication bus 703, where the communication bus 703 is configured to implement connection and communication between the processor 701 and the memory 702. In another example, the processor 701 and the memory 702 can also communicate in a wireless manner. In actual applications, they can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

It should be noted that for the same communication device, it serves as the communication device to be upgraded before the upgrade, and can be upgraded after obtaining the upgrade file, and it is regarded as the upgraded communication device after the upgrade.

It should also be noted that the communication equipment in this embodiment includes, but is not limited to, any form of communication equipment such as network elements. In actual applications, it can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before selecting part of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading among the communication devices to be upgraded, the method further includes:

It should be understood that "part" refers to the number of communication devices to be upgraded, and it should be greater than or equal to 1 and less than the number of communication devices to be upgraded. It is worth noting that in actual applications, "parts" need to be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios.

The upgrade file is sent to its neighboring communication device to be upgraded, and the neighboring communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and the cycle is repeated until all the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded.

In this embodiment, optionally, referring to FIG. 9, the communication device provided in this embodiment includes a message module 901, a comparison module 902, an upgrade module 903, and a fallback module 904;

Among them, the message module 901: set to communicate messages between the upgraded communication device and the communication device to be upgraded, for example, the upgraded communication device sends a request message for the device model and software version number, upgrade request, etc., and the communication device to be upgraded sends its own device model And software version number message, get upgrade file request, etc.

Among them, the comparison module 902 is configured to compare the received device model and software version number of the adjacent communication device (communication device to be upgraded, the same below), and send the comparison result to the upgrade module 903.

The upgrade module 903 is configured to determine whether to upgrade the adjacent communication device according to the comparison result. When the comparison result is that the upgrade condition is satisfied, the communication device to be upgraded upgrades according to the upgrade file obtained by the message module 901 to complete the upgrade.

Wherein, the rollback module 904 is set to obtain configuration information and business data from the database when the upgrade fails, so as to roll back to the previous software version according to the configuration information and business data.

It should be noted that what is listed here is only a common module division form, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to this method. As long as the above functional steps can be realized, the module form can be flexibly adjusted according to specific application scenarios; In addition, each of the above modules can be executed by the processor.

The communication equipment provided by the embodiment of the present invention first upgrades part of the communication equipment to be upgraded, and then uses the upgraded communication equipment to upgrade other communication equipment to be upgraded, which solves the problem of the long upgrade time and server load of the communication equipment in the prior art. Compared with the existing upgrade methods, it has at least the following advantages:

At the same time, the embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium. The computer-readable storage medium stores one or more programs, and the one or more programs can be executed by one or more processors to implement the above-mentioned embodiments. One, two, and three upgrade method steps.

The computer-readable storage medium includes volatile or non-volatile, removable, or removable or non-volatile memory implemented in any method or technology for storing information (such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, computer program modules, or other data). Non-removable media. Computer readable storage media include but are not limited to RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read-Only Memory, read-only memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable read only memory, charged Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) ), flash memory or other storage technology, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read-Only Memory), digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tapes, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, Or any other medium that can be used to store desired information and can be accessed by a computer.

Obviously, those skilled in the art should understand that all or some of the steps in the method disclosed above, the functional modules/units in the system, and the device can be implemented as software (which can be implemented by program code executable by a computing device) , Firmware, hardware and their appropriate combination. In hardware implementations, the division between functional modules/units mentioned in the above description does not necessarily correspond to the division of physical components; for example, one physical component may have multiple functions, or one function or step may consist of several physical components. The components are executed cooperatively. Some physical components or all physical components can be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a central processing unit, a digital signal processor, or a microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit . Such software may be distributed on a computer-readable medium and executed by a computing device, and in some cases, the steps shown or described may be executed in a different order than here. The computer-readable medium may include computer storage Medium (or non-transitory medium) and communication medium (or temporary medium). As is well known to those of ordinary skill in the art, the term computer storage medium includes volatile and non-volatile memory implemented in any method or technology for storing information (such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data). Flexible, removable and non-removable media.

In addition, as is well known to those of ordinary skill in the art, communication media usually contain computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as carrier waves or other transmission mechanisms, and may include any information delivery media . Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above content is a further detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention in combination with specific implementations, and it cannot be considered that the specific implementations of the present invention are limited to these descriptions. For those of ordinary skill in the technical field to which the embodiments of the present invention belong, several simple deductions or substitutions can be made without departing from the concept of the embodiments of the present invention, which should be regarded as falling within the protection scope of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

An upgrade method including:

Select part of the communication equipment to be upgraded in the communication equipment to be upgraded for upgrading;

After the part of the communication equipment to be upgraded is successfully upgraded, it is regarded as the upgraded communication equipment, and the upgrade file is sent to the adjacent communication equipment to be upgraded;

The adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file.
The upgrade method according to claim 1, wherein before sending the upgrade file to a neighboring communication device to be upgraded, the method further comprises:

The upgraded communication device compares the device model and software version number of the upgraded communication device and the adjacent communication device to be upgraded, determines that the upgrade condition is met when the device model is the same and the software version number is different, and the upgrade file Send to neighboring communication equipment to be upgraded.
The upgrade method according to claim 2, wherein, before comparing the device models and software version numbers of the part of the communication device to be upgraded and the adjacent communication device to be upgraded, the method further comprises:

The upgraded communication device sends a device model and software version request to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded;

After receiving the request for the device model and software version, the neighboring communication device to be upgraded sends the device model and software version number to the upgraded communication device.
The upgrade method according to claim 2, wherein, before sending the upgrade file to a neighboring communication device to be upgraded, the method further comprises:

The upgraded communication device sends an upgrade request to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded;

When the adjacent communication device to be upgraded receives the upgrade request, sending a request for obtaining an upgrade file to the upgraded communication device;

When the upgraded communication device receives the upgrade file acquisition request, it sends the upgrade file to the adjacent communication device to be upgraded.
The upgrade method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the adjacent communication device to be upgraded upgrades according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade fails, the method further comprises:

Obtain configuration information and business data from the database, so as to roll back to the previous software version according to the configuration information and business data.
The upgrade method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade fails/successfully, it further comprises:

Sending an upgrade failure/success notification to the upgraded communication device, and the upgraded communication device sends the upgrade failure/success notification to the server;

or,

Send notification of upgrade failure/success to the server.
The upgrade method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the adjacent communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and after the upgrade is successful, it is regarded as an upgraded communication device, further comprising:

The upgrade file is sent to a neighboring communication device to be upgraded, and the neighboring communication device to be upgraded is upgraded according to the upgrade file, and loops in turn until all the communication devices to be upgraded are successfully upgraded.
8. The upgrade method according to claim 7, wherein, before selecting a part of the communication devices to be upgraded for upgrading, the method further comprises:

Classify the communication devices to be upgraded according to the device model, and classify the communication devices to be upgraded with the same device model into the same type;

Said selecting part of the communication equipment to be upgraded for upgrading in the communication equipment to be upgraded includes:

Select part of the communication devices to be upgraded from various types of communication devices to be upgraded for upgrade.
A communication device including a processor and a memory;

The processor is configured to execute one or more computer programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the upgrading method according to any one of claims 1-8.
A computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs, and the one or more computer programs can be executed by one or more processors, so as to implement claims 1-8 The steps of any one of the upgrade methods.