CN102130837B - Method and system for dynamically regulating service license - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and system for dynamic regulation and control of business traffic. The control center allocates business license values for each business platform, and counts the average value of the licenses used by each business platform in a statistical period, and controls the licenses allocated to each business platform according to the license control strategy. The license value is regulated. By adopting the present invention, on the premise of fixing license resources, each service license is dynamically adjusted according to different service development situations and user volumes, so that resources can be fully utilized and resources can be allocated rationally under the condition of limited resources.

Description

A method and system for dynamic regulation and control of business license

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and more specifically, to a method and system for dynamically regulating a service license (permission flow).

Background technique

At present, the communication field is developing toward the integration of multi-service and multi-network, and more and more service platforms with various functions are deployed in the communication network. Communication operators at this stage, especially multinational operators, are faced with the heavy task of reducing CAPEX (capital output) and OPEX (operating costs). The deployment of new services, or the expansion or replacement of existing services on the existing network must follow the principle of reducing The principle of TCO (total cost of ownership) produces maximum benefits with minimum investment. For some service environments such as small countries with a small number of users but need to provide various service platforms, a unified platform that can integrate multiple services has become a solution. The emergence of this multi-service integrated unified platform also gave birth to a multi-service operation mode, that is, operators hope to purchase a fixed amount of service licenses under the condition of limited equipment resources, and these licenses can be used in multiple services according to the development of different services. The situation is automatically allocated to adapt to the operation scale and flow of different businesses. So as to achieve the purpose of cost saving.

From the above, it is necessary to provide a system that can automatically manage and regulate the licenses of various services, and provide different license regulation strategies to adapt to the operating conditions of different operators.

Contents of the invention

The technical problem solved by the present invention is to provide a method and system for dynamic regulation and control of a service license, so as to realize the management and dynamic regulation of the service license.

In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the present invention provides a method for dynamic regulation and control of business traffic, in which the control center allocates business license traffic (license) values for each business platform, and the method also includes:

The control center counts the average value of the license used by each service platform within the statistical period, and regulates the license value assigned to each service platform according to the license control strategy.

Further, the control center counts the average value of the license used by each service platform within the statistical period, specifically including:

Each business platform regularly reports the currently used business license flow (license) value to the control center;

The control center obtains the average value of the license used by each service platform in the statistical period according to the reported license value;

Wherein, the statistical period is greater than the reporting period for the service platform to report the currently used license value.

Further, for a service platform with multiple service nodes, when regularly reporting the license value currently used by each service node on the service platform, the license value currently used by each service node on the service platform is reported separately, or reported to the The control center.

Further, the regulation of the license value assigned to each service platform according to the license control strategy specifically includes:

When the average license value of a service platform in N consecutive statistical periods exceeds the predetermined first threshold, the license value assigned to the service platform will be increased by one license increment unit;

When the ratio of the average license value of a service platform to the license allocated to the service in N consecutive statistical periods is lower than the predetermined second threshold, the license value allocated to the service platform is reduced by one license increment unit;

Wherein, N is a positive integer.

Further, the regulation of the license value assigned to each service platform according to the license control strategy specifically includes:

Calculate the peak value and/or valley value of the business platform according to the average license value of the business platform in the set curve period;

Increase or decrease the license value assigned to the service platform during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value according to the peak value and/or valley value;

Wherein, the curve period is greater than the statistical period.

Further, after the control center regulates the license value assigned to each service platform, it sends control information to each service platform, and the control information includes the regulated license value assigned to each service platform.

In addition, the present invention also provides a system for dynamic regulation and control of business licenses, said system comprising:

The license collection module is used to count the average value of the licenses used by each business platform within the statistical period;

The license control module is used to allocate service license values for each service platform; and, according to the license average value used by each service platform in the statistical period, adjust the license value allocated to each service platform according to the license control policy.

Further, the system also includes a license configuration management module, configured to configure license control policies.

Further, the license collection module is used to obtain the average value of the license used by each service platform in a statistical period according to the currently used license value reported regularly by each service platform; wherein, the statistical period is greater than the value reported by the service platform The reporting period of the currently used license value.

Further, the license regulation module is used for:

When the average license value of a service platform in N consecutive statistical periods exceeds the predetermined first threshold, the license value assigned to the service platform will be increased by one license increment unit;

When the ratio of the average license value of a service platform to the license allocated to the service in N consecutive statistical periods is lower than the predetermined second threshold, the license value allocated to the service platform is reduced by one license increment unit;

Wherein, N is a positive integer.

Further, the license collection module is also used to obtain the peak value and/or valley value of the service platform according to the average license value of the service platform in the set curve period;

The license regulation module is used to increase or decrease the license value assigned to the service platform during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value according to the peak value and/or valley value;

Wherein, the curve period is greater than the statistical period.

Further, the license regulation module is also used for, after regulating the license value assigned to each service platform, by sending control information to each service platform, the adjusted license value assigned to each service platform is issued to various business platforms.

The present invention caters to the diversification of business platforms in different operators and different regions, and the common phenomenon of unbalanced business development, and provides a method of dynamically adjusting each business license according to different business development situations and user volumes under the premise of fixing license resources, thereby It can make full use of resources in the case of limited resources and allocate resources reasonably.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention has at least the following beneficial effects: the method and system capable of automatically managing and regulating the licenses of various services provided by the present invention effectively solves the resource problem caused by the unbalanced development of various services in multi-service integration. The waste problem can greatly reduce the operating cost; and the automatic regulation method will greatly improve the ease of use and efficiency of the operation of the multi-service integration platform; at the same time, it can also provide different license regulation strategies to adapt to different operators operating conditions.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings described here are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention and constitute a part of the application. The schematic embodiments of the present invention and their descriptions are used to explain the present invention and do not constitute improper limitations to the present invention. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the system structure of an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the flow chart of license dynamic regulation and control process according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of license dynamic regulation and control combined with SMS service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the present invention provides a method for dynamic regulation and control of a business license, which method includes: the control center assigns a business license flow (license) value to each business platform, and the method also includes:

The control center counts the average value of the license used by each service platform within the statistical period, and regulates the license value assigned to each service platform according to the license control strategy.

Further, after the control center regulates the license value assigned to each service platform, it sends control information to each service platform, and the control information includes the adjusted license value assigned to each service platform.

Specifically, the license value assigned to each service platform is regulated according to the license control strategy, and the following methods can be adopted:

When the average license value of a service platform in N consecutive statistical periods exceeds the predetermined first threshold, the license value assigned to the service platform will be increased by one license increment unit;

When the ratio of the average license value of a service platform to the license allocated to the service in N consecutive statistical periods is lower than the predetermined second threshold, the license value allocated to the service platform is reduced by one license increment unit;

Wherein, N is a positive integer.

Alternatively, you can also use the following method:

Calculate the peak value and/or valley value of the business platform according to the average license value of the business platform in the set curve period;

Increase or decrease the license value assigned to the service platform during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value according to the peak value and/or valley value;

Wherein, the curve period is greater than the statistical period.

In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the present invention more clear, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined arbitrarily with each other.

As shown in Figure 1, the service license dynamic control system provided by the embodiment of the present invention mainly includes:

The license collection module 11 is configured to collect the currently used licenses of various services.

The license control module 12 is configured to analyze the collected licenses of each business, regulate the licenses according to the license control strategy, and notify each business of the adjusted licenses.

The license configuration management module 13 is configured to configure various license control strategies, and provide system-related management and maintenance functions such as license control file upload.

Specifically, the license collection module 11 receives the license data reported by each service platform and converts the collected license into the license unit of the system for storage. Each business platform can be multi-node. For the case where the business platform is multi-node, the license data can be reported by a single node or aggregated by one node. The license collection module saves the data of all nodes of the business platform in units of business platforms. license data.

Specifically, the license control module 12 receives and saves the license control strategy synchronized by the license configuration management module 13, and the license control module 12 periodically goes to the license collection module 11 to obtain the average license value of each service platform in a certain period of time, and analyzes the service platform in a certain period of time. According to the license usage within a certain period of time, adjust the license allocated to each business according to the license control strategy when necessary, and convert the adjusted license into a business platform license unit and issue it to each business platform.

Among them, the license control strategy may include: increase the allocated license value for a continuous period of time when the average license usage exceeds a certain threshold of the total license, decrease the allocated license value for a continuous period of time when the average license usage is lower than a certain threshold, and different times The segments are assigned different license values, etc.

For example, for SMS business, according to the usual traffic statistics of the business, the business traffic peak of SMS business is usually between 7:00-22:00, the average value of the license is about 500 messages/second, and the low-peak period is between 22:00-7:00 , the average value of the license is 100 messages per second, then the policy can be set to allocate more than 500 licenses for the SMS service between 7:00-22:00, and a license of about 100 is preset between 22:00-7:00.

In addition, the license control module 12 also has a license curve learning capability, records the license curves of each business platform within a period of time (hereinafter referred to as the curve period), and regulates each business license according to the curve combined with the license control strategy. Specifically, it means: record the license usage of a certain business for a whole day or a month, and then you can preset policies according to the license situation by time period, reducing frequent automatic license adjustments.

For example, analyze the peak and/or valley data of the license average value used by the business every day or every month from the average license value in the curve cycle, and automatically adjust the corresponding time period according to the peak and/or valley value data obtained from the analysis ( That is, the license value allocated to the service during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value). It can be applied in situations where the license cannot be estimated during special holidays (such as the explosive growth of SMS licenses during the Spring Festival), so as to pre-allocate sufficient licenses.

In addition, the license control module 12 also periodically reports license distribution and usage to the license configuration management module 13 for display and statistics.

The license configuration management module 13 is used to provide functions such as operation maintenance and data display related to license control, including configuration and synchronization of license control policies, upload of license control files, license currently allocated by the business platform, and page display of license data used. wait. Among them, for the business that needs license control, an initial license value must be assigned, otherwise the business will not process the business without a license value; the function of the license control file is to assign an initial license value for each business.

Specifically, the license configuration management module 13 is responsible for uploading the license control file, configuration management of the license policy and responsible for synchronizing to the license control module 12; after the license control module 12 loads the license control file, it performs license regulation in combination with the license control policy. The license configuration management module 13 is also responsible for receiving the license usage data reported by the license control module 12 and displaying it on the operation management page for maintenance personnel to view.

In combination with the above-mentioned system, an embodiment of the present invention also provides a method for realizing business license management and dynamic regulation, which mainly includes the following processing procedures:

Upload the license control file, configure the license strategy through the license configuration management module, and synchronize the license strategy to the license control module;

The license control module loads the license control file and saves the license control policy;

During system operation, each business platform reports the license to the license collection module on time;

The license control module regularly collects the license usage of each business platform from the license collection module and adjusts the license of each business platform under the condition that the license adjustment strategy is satisfied in combination with the license control strategy. The regulation includes keeping the total value of the license unchanged. , to increase or decrease the license assigned to a certain business platform;

After the license assigned to each business platform is adjusted, the license control module sends a control message to each business platform;

After receiving the control information from the license control module, the service platform performs service flow control according to the license allocated by the license control module.

Since the license algorithm of each business is different, in order to be compatible with the difference in the capacity of the license unit of different business platforms, the conversion function of the license unit of the system and the business license unit is provided. The system converts the license reported by the business according to a certain conversion ratio. The license unit of the system is controlled by the license unit of the system, and finally the license unit of the system is converted into the license unit of each business platform in the license control information issued to each business.

As shown in FIG. 2 , the business process for implementing license dynamic regulation according to the embodiment of the present invention is shown. The process specifically includes the following processing steps:

In step S201, the user uploads a license control file and configures a license control policy through the license configuration management module 13, and sends a synchronization request to the license control module 12 of the system.

Step S202, after receiving the license policy synchronization request sent by the license configuration management module 13, the license control module 12 loads the license control file and saves the license control policy.

In step S203, after the above steps S201 and S202, the system enters the license control state. During the operation of the system, each service node reports the license usage status to the license collection module 11 on time.

In step S204, the license collection module 11 saves the license value reported by each service.

In step S205, the license control module 12 regularly collects the average value of the service license from the license collection module 11 within a certain period of time, and controls the license in combination with the total value of the license and the license policy.

Step S206 , the license control module 12 sends the adjusted license value to each service node, and each service node performs service flow control according to the license issued by the license control module 12 .

Step S207, the license control module 12 reports the current license allocation and usage data to the license configuration management module 13, and the license configuration management module 13 can display the current license allocation and usage data to the operation and maintenance page in real time.

FIG. 3 shows the dynamic license adjustment service flow of the embodiment of the present invention. Assume that the operator purchased a total of 5,000 units of licenses for this system, and carried out three services including MMS, SMS, and WAP gateways. 2,000, 2,000, and 1,000 licenses of the system were allocated respectively.

MMS, SMS, WAP gateway service license and the conversion ratio of this system are 1:10, 1:1, 1:5 respectively, and the license strategy is that the average value of the license within the time range of 3 consecutive acquisitions exceeds the total value of the license currently assigned to the service If it is 80%, it is necessary to increase the license for the business, and if it is less than 60%, the license allocated to the business can be reduced.

As shown in Figure 3, the process specifically includes the following processing steps:

In step S301 , the MMS, SMS, and WAP gateway services report the currently used licenses to the license collection module 11 respectively.

Assume that the MMS service license reported by MMS is 150 messages per second in a certain period of time, the SMS service license reported by SMS is 1800 records per second in a certain period of time, and the WAP gateway service license reported by the WAP gateway is in a certain period of time. The average value in the time range is 60 entries/second.

Step S302, the license collection module 11 converts the received business licenses reported by each business into license units of the system, which are MMS 150*10=1500, SMS 1800*1=1800, WAP gateway 60*5=300, license collection Module 11 saves the converted business licenses.

Step S303, the license control module 12 regularly collects the average license value of each service from the license collection module 11, and finds that the average license value of the SMS service exceeds 80% of the total value of the license allocated to the SMS service for three consecutive times (2000*80%=1600) , need to add 250 licenses; and the average license value of the WAP gateway service is continuously lower than 60% of the total value of licenses allocated to the WAP gateway service (1000*60%=600), the license can be reduced.

In step S304, the license control module 12 cuts 250 license units of the system from the total license of 1000 of the WAP gateway service, and adds these 250 license units of the system to the SMS service.

In step S305, the adjusted license units of the system allocated to each service are MMS 2000, SMS 2250, and WAP gateway 750 respectively. The license control module 12 converts the license unit of the system into each business license unit (MMS 2000/10=200, SMS 2250/1=2250, WAP gateway=750/5=150) and sends it to MMS, SMS, WAP through control information For the gateway business, each business uses a new license as traffic control.

The above are only preferred implementation examples of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. The present invention can also have other various embodiments. Without departing from the spirit and essence of the present invention, those skilled in the art can Various corresponding changes and modifications are made in the present invention, but these corresponding changes and modifications should all belong to the protection scope of the appended claims of the present invention.

Obviously, those skilled in the art should understand that each module or each step of the above-mentioned present invention can be realized by a general-purpose computing device, and they can be concentrated on a single computing device, or distributed in a network formed by multiple computing devices Alternatively, they may be implemented in program code executable by a computing device so that they may be stored in a storage device to be executed by a computing device, and in some cases in an order different from that shown here The steps shown or described are carried out, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or multiple modules or steps among them are fabricated into a single integrated circuit module for implementation. As such, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

Claims (10)

1. A method for dynamic regulation and control of business flow, characterized in that the control center distributes a business license flow (license) value for each business platform, and the method also includes: The control center counts the average value of the license used by each service platform in the statistical period, and regulates the license value assigned to each service platform according to the license control strategy; The license value assigned to each service platform is regulated according to the license control strategy, specifically including: When the average license value of a service platform in N consecutive statistical periods exceeds the predetermined first threshold, the license value assigned to the service platform will be increased by one license increment unit; When the ratio of the average license value of a service platform to the license allocated to the service in N consecutive statistical periods is lower than the predetermined second threshold, the license value allocated to the service platform is reduced by one license increment unit; Wherein, N is a positive integer. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein The control center counts the average value of the license used by each service platform within the statistical period, specifically including: Each business platform regularly reports the currently used business license flow (license) value to the control center; The control center obtains the average value of the license used by each service platform in the statistical period according to the reported license value; Wherein, the statistical period is greater than the reporting period for the service platform to report the currently used license value. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein For a service platform with multiple service nodes, when regularly reporting the license value currently used by each service node on the service platform, the license value currently used by each service node on the service platform is reported separately, or reported to the controller center. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that, The license value assigned to each service platform is regulated according to the license control strategy, specifically including: Calculate the peak value and/or valley value of the business platform according to the average license value of the business platform in the set curve period; Increase or decrease the license value assigned to the service platform during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value according to the peak value and/or valley value; Wherein, the curve period is greater than the statistical period. 5. The method according to any one of claims 1, 2 or 3, further comprising: After the control center regulates the license value assigned to each service platform, it sends control information to each service platform, and the control information includes the regulated license value assigned to each service platform. 6. A business license dynamic regulation and control system, is characterized in that, described system comprises: The license collection module is used to count the average value of the licenses used by each business platform within the statistical period; The license control module is used to allocate service license values for each service platform; and, according to the average value of the license used by each service platform in the statistical period, the license value assigned to each service platform is regulated according to the license control strategy; The license control module is used for: When the average license value of a service platform in N consecutive statistical periods exceeds the predetermined first threshold, the license value assigned to the service platform will be increased by one license increment unit; When the ratio of the average license value of a service platform to the license allocated to the service in N consecutive statistical periods is lower than the predetermined second threshold, the license value allocated to the service platform is reduced by one license increment unit; Wherein, N is a positive integer. 7. The system of claim 6, wherein: The system also includes a license configuration management module for configuring license control policies. 8. The system of claim 7, wherein: The license collection module is used to, according to the currently used license value regularly reported by each service platform, obtain the average value of the license used by each service platform in the statistical period; wherein, the statistical period is greater than the current license value reported by the service platform. The reporting period of the license value used. 9. The system of any one of claims 6, 7 or 8, wherein: The license collection module is also used to obtain the peak value and/or valley value of the service platform according to the average license value of the service platform in the set curve period; The license regulation module is used to increase or decrease the license value assigned to the service platform during the time period corresponding to the peak value and/or valley value according to the peak value and/or valley value; Wherein, the curve period is greater than the statistical period. 10. The system of any one of claims 6, 7 or 8, wherein: The license regulation module is also used for, after regulating the license value assigned to each service platform, by sending control information to each service platform, the adjusted license value assigned to each service platform is sent to each service platform .