TWI718068B - Virtual service network quality measurement system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention provides a virtual service network quality measurement system and method thereof. This system includes a network quality measurement device, a thread management device and a plurality of thread processing devices, wherein the thread management device and the network quality measurement device set up a quality measurement monitoring module and a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules in the plurality of thread processing devices to perform network quality measurement of the plurality of thread processing devices and obtain a network quality measurement results of the plurality of thread processing devices. Furthermore, after network quality measurement is completed, the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules can be stopped working and removed, so as not to occupy additional hardware resources.

Description

Virtual service network quality measurement system and method

The present invention relates to a network quality measurement technology, in particular to a virtual service network quality measurement system and method.

With the continuous improvement of existing technologies in fixed-line telecommunications and mobile high-speed broadband Internet access technologies, cloud architecture (Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS), cloud platform (Platform as a Service, PaaS) and cloud software (Software as a Service, SaaS) The development of cloud application service systems and equipment to provide diversified user broadband Internet access, video and audio streaming, smart home, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technology and other cloud application services.

In addition, in addition to the cloud-based service chain of broadband application services, the traditional telecom network architecture is also developing and evolving toward the cloud-based telecom cloud architecture. However, cloud application services make the original software or/and hardware bindings run outside the general server, and the cloud application services are connected in series through the Spine-leaf switch, which increases the delay time of the original traffic, especially data When data plane traffic is also oriented toward cloudification, the delay time will be more obvious.

Therefore, in recent years, the standards organization "Broadband Forum" has proposed a network quality measurement framework at the two ends of the network equipment to ensure the performance of the cloud-based telecom cloud architecture. Meet network quality requirements.

Therefore, the following network quality measurement methods are usually used in the prior art: (1) The network quality measurement module of the network equipment provides network quality measurement, and the network quality measurement mechanism on the market is also mature. However, it has limitations. It can only detect network equipment with network quality measurement modules; (2) The network quality measurement modules are built on a general server in advance to use device management protocols such as TR After -069 or SNMP is activated, the remote endpoint executes the network quality measurement module to perform network quality measurement, and then obtain the network quality measurement result. However, the network quality measurement method of the aforementioned point (2) will relatively cause the occupation of the hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, and hard disk space, etc.) of the general server.

Furthermore, in the 5G (fifth generation mobile communication technology) environment, when a large number of general servers of the telecom cloud are built for use in services that require low latency, such as Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), Its network quality measurement method increases the burden on the hardware resources of general-purpose servers.

On the other hand, if telecom operators or cloud virtual service platform operators want to provide network quality measurement and other functions, they must develop their own built-in network quality measurement module in the virtual service function, and rent users in the virtual service After the network quality measurement is completed, if the network quality measurement module is not removed, the hardware resources of the general server will also be occupied.

Therefore, how to provide a network quality measurement method suitable for various network equipment without increasing the burden of the network equipment and improving the efficiency of the network equipment is one of the urgent issues to be solved.

In view of the various deficiencies of the above-mentioned prior art, the present invention provides a virtual service network quality measurement system, which includes: a network quality measurement device for providing the deployment location and IP ( Internet Protocol (Internet Protocol) location, and the deployment location and IP location of a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules; a thread management device, which is communicatively connected to the network quality measurement device to receive the quality The deployment location and IP location of the monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the thread management device generates the quality measurement monitoring module and a corresponding quality measurement monitoring image file, The plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the corresponding plurality of quality measurement terminal image files, wherein the thread management device is based on the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules Deploy location, transmit the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement monitoring image file, and the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files; and A thread processing device is arranged on at least one of a plurality of virtual service data platforms to communicate with the thread management device, and the plurality of thread processing devices are used to receive the IP location and the quality measurement monitoring module The quality measurement monitoring image file, and the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files, wherein the plurality of thread processing devices are based on the quality measurement monitoring module and The deployment positions of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, the generation of the quality measurement monitoring module in one of the plurality of thread processing devices and the configuration of the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module, and Others of the plurality of thread processing devices generate the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, so that the quality measurement monitoring module performs network quality measurement on the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules; wherein, After the network quality measurement is over, the quality measurement monitoring module transmits the network quality measurement result to the network quality measurement device, and the network quality measurement device instructs the thread management device to make the The plurality of thread processing devices stop operating and the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules are removed.

The present invention also provides a virtual service network quality measurement method, which includes the following steps: enabling a network quality measurement device to provide the deployment location and IP location of a quality measurement monitoring module, and a plurality of quality measurement terminals The deployment location and IP location of the module; enable a thread management device to communicate with the network quality measurement device to receive the deployment of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules Location and IP location, and the quality measurement monitoring module and a corresponding quality measurement monitoring image file, the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the corresponding plurality of quality measurements are generated by the thread management device A terminal image file, wherein the thread management device transmits the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality according to the deployment positions of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules The measurement monitoring image file, and the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files; and the plurality of thread processing devices are installed on at least one of the plurality of virtual service data platforms The thread management device is connected by communication, and the plurality of thread processing devices receive the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module, the quality measurement monitoring image file, and the IP location of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules And the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files, wherein the plurality of thread processing devices are executed on the plurality of thread processing devices according to the deployment positions of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules One of the thread processing devices generates the quality measurement monitoring module and configures the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module, and generates the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules on the other of the plurality of thread processing devices, For the quality measurement monitoring module to perform network quality measurement on the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules; wherein, after the network quality measurement is completed, the quality measurement monitoring module The test results are sent to the network quality measurement device, and the network quality measurement device instructs the thread management device to stop the plurality of thread processing devices and remove the quality measurement monitoring module and The plurality of quality measurement terminal modules.

In one embodiment, the quality measurement monitoring module includes a northbound open application program interface, so that the network quality measurement device configures the plurality of qualities through the northbound open application program interface of the quality measurement monitoring module Measure the IP position of the terminal module.

In one embodiment, the quality measurement monitoring module includes a storage unit for storing the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules.

In one embodiment, the quality measurement monitoring module includes a packet sending and statistics unit for reading the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules in the storage unit to determine whether there is an unexecuted network Road quality measurement person, where, when there is at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules that have not performed network quality measurement, the packet sending and statistics unit is scheduled and a plurality of qualities are respectively sent Measure packets to the corresponding IP positions of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules.

In an embodiment, after at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules receives one of the plurality of quality measurement packets transmitted by the packet receiving and statistics unit, the plurality of quality measurement packets At least one of the test terminal modules returns one of the plurality of quality measurement packets to the packet transmission and statistics unit, so that the packet transmission and statistics unit performs the transmission process according to the plurality of quality measurement packets The network quality measurement results of at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules are counted by the sequence and time stamp recorded in the data, and then the packet sending and statistics unit stores the network quality measurement results in The storage unit.

In one embodiment, the network quality measurement result includes the number of one-way or two-way packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time of the plurality of quality measurement packets in the transmission process.

In one embodiment, it further includes a plurality of network connection devices for communicating between the network quality measurement device, the thread management device, and the plurality of thread processing devices.

In one embodiment, the plurality of network connection devices further includes a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the quality measurement monitoring module has a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules for the plurality of network connection devices At least one of the groups performs network quality measurement, and then transmits the network quality measurement results of the plurality of network connection devices to the network quality measurement device.

In summary, the present invention provides a virtual service network quality measurement system and method thereof, through the thread management device and the network quality measurement device, the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of The quality measurement terminal module is arranged in the plurality of thread processing devices to perform network quality measurement of the plurality of thread processing devices, and then obtain the network quality measurement results of the plurality of thread processing devices. Furthermore, when the network quality measurement is completed, the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules can be stopped and removed, so as not to occupy additional hardware resources (such as CPU, memory) Body, etc.).

In addition, it is also possible to perform network quality measurement on multiple network connection devices that are communicatively connected to the thread management device, the network quality measurement device, and multiple thread processing devices to obtain multiple network connections The network quality measurement result of the device.

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Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the virtual service network quality measurement system of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the quality measurement monitoring module of the present invention;

Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the network connection device of the present invention; and

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the method for measuring the quality of the virtual service network of the present invention.

It should be noted that the structures, proportions, sizes, etc. shown in the drawings in this manual are only used to match the contents disclosed in the manual for the understanding and reading of those familiar with the art, and are not intended to limit the implementation of the present invention Therefore, it does not have any technical significance. Any structural modification, proportional relationship change, or size adjustment should still fall within the scope of the present invention without affecting the effects and objectives that can be achieved. The technical content disclosed by the invention can be covered. At the same time, terms such as "一", "上", "下", "first", and "second" quoted in this manual are only for convenience of description, and are not used to limit the present invention. The scope of implementation and the change or adjustment of their relative relationship shall be regarded as the scope of implementation of the present invention without substantial changes to the technical content.

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the virtual service network quality measurement system of the present invention. As shown in Figure 1, the virtual service network quality measurement system 1 includes: a thread management device 10, a network quality measurement device 11, a plurality of network connection devices 12, and a plurality of virtual service data platforms 13. The thread management device 10 is a virtual service function thread management server, the network quality measurement device 11 is a virtual service network quality measurement analysis server, and the plurality of network connection devices 12 is a router (Router), a switch (Switch), etc., and at least one of the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13 includes a plurality of thread processing devices 14, and the thread management device 10, the plurality of networks The connection device 12 and the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13 are established by at least one server (such as a general server, a file server, a storage unit server, etc.). The aforementioned plurality of thread processing devices 14 all include a plurality of virtual service threads 17.

In this embodiment, a plurality of at least one of the thread management device 10, the network quality measurement device 11, and the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13 is communicatively connected through the plurality of network connection devices 12 Thread processing equipment 14 to be provided by telecom operators or cloud virtual service platform operators At least one of the plurality of virtual service threads 17 of the one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 applies to the virtual service to be leased to the client, wherein, when one of the plurality of virtual service threads 17 has an obstacle, Or when the plurality of virtual service threads 17 are connected in series and cause the delay time of the communication to be too high, the network quality measurement equipment 11 can be used to provide regular measurement and on-demand measurement through the telecom operator or cloud virtual service platform operator Network quality measurement of measurement.

Specifically, the network quality measurement device 11 connects the plurality of network connection devices 12 through communication to connect the deployment positions of a quality measurement monitoring module 15 and a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 to Information content such as IP (Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol) location is sent to the thread management device 10. For example, the IP location and deployment location of the aforementioned quality measurement monitoring module 15 and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Virtual service network quality measurement circuit analysis (1)

The thread management device 10 receives the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) sent by the network quality measurement device 11 After quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) the information content of the IP location and deployment location of both, the thread management device 10 generates the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality Monitoring Module A) and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D), and generate the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring Module A) corresponding to a quality measurement monitoring image file, and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (e.g., quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) corresponding to multiple qualities Measurement terminal image file.

In one embodiment, and referring to Table 1, the thread management device 10 has the IP location (such as 192.168.1.10) and the quality of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) The test monitoring image file is sent to one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device a) corresponding to the deployment location of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A). ) To configure the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) required CPU (Central Processing Unit, central processing unit), memory (such as Read-Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM)) and hardware resources such as a network interface, and one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device a) loads the quality measurement monitoring image file for the plurality of threads One of the processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a) generates the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A), and configures the corresponding quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality Test the IP location of monitoring module A) (such as 192.168.1.10).

At the same time, the thread management device 10 transmits the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files to the corresponding plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D). The other one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device b~thread processing device e) described in the deployment position to configure the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality Test terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) required CPU (central processing unit), memory (such as ROM, RAM) and network interface and other hardware resources, and the plurality of thread processing equipment 14 Others (such as thread processing device b~thread processing device e) respectively load a plurality of quality measurement terminal image files for the purpose of The plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module) are generated in the others of the plurality of thread processing equipment 14 (such as thread processing equipment b~thread processing equipment e). Terminal module D), and the configuration corresponds to the IP locations of multiple quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123. ..).

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the quality measurement monitoring module of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2 and referring to FIG. 1 and Table 1, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 includes a northbound open application program interface 150, a storage unit 151, and a packet sending and counting unit 152, and The quality measurement monitoring module 15 is communicatively connected to the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16.

In this embodiment, the network quality measurement device 11 communicates with the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) through one of the plurality of network connection devices 12, so that The network quality measurement equipment 11 sets the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) to the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality Test the IP location of the terminal module D) (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...), where the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring) is generated in the plurality of thread processing devices 14 After module A) and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D), the network quality measurement equipment 11 uses the quality measurement to monitor The northbound open application interface 150 of the module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) sets the multiple quality measurement terminal modules 16 for the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) (Such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) IP location (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...), and the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring Module A) Store the IP locations (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...) of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) To the storage unit 151 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A), so that the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) Perform subsequent virtual services based on the IP locations (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...) of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) Network quality measurement and statistics.

In one embodiment, the packet receiving and counting unit 152 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) reads the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 in the storage unit 151 ( For example, the IP location of the quality measurement terminal module A~the quality measurement terminal module D) (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...), to determine whether there is a network quality measurement that has not been performed. When there is at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) that has not performed network quality measurement, the quality measurement monitoring module The packet sending and statistics unit 152 of group 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) schedules and respectively sends a plurality of quality measurement packets with a plurality of recording sequence fields and time stamp fields to the corresponding The IP locations (such as 192.168.1.221, 192.168.1.123...) of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D). The headers of the aforementioned plural quality measurement packets are the TWAMP light sender packet protocol and so on.

In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (eg, quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) receives the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (Such as quality measurement monitoring module A) after one of the plurality of quality measurement packets sent by the packet receiving and statistics unit 152, the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as the quality measurement terminal module) At least one of group A~quality measurement terminal module D) returns one of the plurality of quality measurement packets to the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A), and The sequence and time stamp period of the plurality of quality measurement packets in the transmission process are in the sequence field and the time stamp field of the plurality of quality measurement packets.

In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (eg, quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) completes one of the plurality of quality measurement packets After the return, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) performs the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as quality measurement terminal module A~quality measurement terminal module D) At least one of the network quality measurement, that is, the plurality of quality measurement packets recorded by the packet transmission and statistics unit 152 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) The sequence and time stamp are used to count the number of one-way or/and two-way packet loss, packet delay time and packet delay variation time of the network quality measurement results of the plurality of quality measurement packets in the transmission process, and record them in the The storage unit 151 is as shown in Table 1.

Then, after the quality measurement monitoring module 15 completes the network quality measurement of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16, the network quality measurement device 11 is communicatively connected to the north direction of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 Open the application program interface 150 to obtain the network quality measurement results of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 from the storage unit 151 (such as packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation Time), the network quality measurement device 11 obtains the abnormal traffic delay time of the plurality of thread processing devices 14, that is, the packet delay time of the thread processing device c in Table 1 is 4000ms, The packet delay variation time is 100ms, and the number of lost packets is 20, so the thread processing device c is the one with abnormal traffic delay time.

Furthermore, the network quality measurement device 11 instructs the thread management device 10 to complete the network quality measurement of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 and the quality measurement monitoring module 15 of at least one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 A quality measurement terminal module 16 is stopped and removed to release the hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, etc.) of at least one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14.

Therefore, the network quality measurement device 11 uses the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module) disposed on one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a) Group A) For the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (e.g., quality measurement terminal module) respectively set in the other of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (e.g., thread processing device b~thread processing device e) Group A~Quality measurement terminal module D) Perform network quality measurement to obtain the network quality of the other thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device b~thread processing device e) As a result of the measurement, it is found that the delay time of the traffic of the plurality of virtual service threads 17 in the execution of tasks in other ones of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device b~thread processing device e) For the abnormal.

In an embodiment, one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a) may also include a quality measurement terminal module 16 and pass through one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 ( For example, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) of the thread processing device a) is the quality measurement terminal for one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a) The module 16 performs network quality measurement to obtain the network quality measurement result of one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a).

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 1, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 in one of the virtual service data platforms 13 can be used to measure the quality of the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13 The terminal module 16 performs network quality measurement, so there is no need to set a quality measurement monitoring module 15 for all virtual service data platforms 13.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the network connection device of the present invention, and refer to FIG. 1 together. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, except that the plurality of thread processing devices 14 perform network quality measurement through the quality measurement monitoring module 15 and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16, the plurality A network connection device 12 also has the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16, and the network quality measurement device 11 also uses one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device a) The northbound open application interface 150 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) to the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as Quality measurement monitoring module A) The IP locations and deployment locations of the multiple quality measurement terminal modules 16 of the multiple network connection devices 12 are added, as shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Analysis of Virtual Service Network Quality Measurement Circuit (2)

In this embodiment, the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as network connection device A~network connection device C) are respectively set on the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13 (virtual service data platform A~virtual Service data platform C), wherein the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) of one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as the thread processing device a) The IP locations (such as 192.168.1.11, 192.168.1.222...) of the multiple quality measurement terminal modules 16 of the connection equipment 12 (such as network connection equipment A~network connection equipment C) are stored here In the storage unit 151 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A), the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) depends on the plurality of network connections Multiple line equipment 12 (such as network connection equipment A ~ network connection equipment C) The IP location of the quality measurement terminal module 16 (such as 192.168.1.11, 192.168.1.222...) performs subsequent network quality measurement and statistics of virtual services.

In one embodiment, the packet sending and counting unit 152 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) reads the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as The IP locations of multiple quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as 192.168.1.11, 192.168.1.222...) of the network connection device A~the network connection device C) to determine whether there is an unexecuted network quality The measurement person, where, when there is at least one of the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as network connection device A~network connection device C) that has not performed the network quality measurement, the quality The packet sending and statistics unit 152 of the measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) schedules and transmits a plurality of quality measurements with a plurality of recording sequence fields and time stamp fields respectively The packet is sent to the IP location (e.g. 192.168) of at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 corresponding to the plurality of network connection devices 12 (e.g., network connection device A to network connection device C) .1.11, 192.168.1.222...).

In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 in the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as network connection device A~network connection device C) receives the After one of the plurality of quality measurement packets sent by the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) and one of the plurality of quality measurement packets sent by the statistics unit 152, the plurality of network connection devices 12( For example, at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 of the network connection device A~the network connection device C) then returns one of the plurality of quality measurement packets to the quality measurement monitoring module Group 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A), and the sequence and time stamp of the plurality of quality measurement packets in the transmission process are recorded in the sequence field and time stamp column of the plurality of quality measurement packets In place.

In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 of the plurality of network connection devices 12 (eg, network connection device A~network connection device C) completes the plurality of qualities Measure After one of the packets is returned, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) performs the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as network connection device A~network connection The network quality measurement of at least one of the line equipment C), that is, the packet transmission and statistics unit 152 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) records the plurality of quality The sequence and time stamp in the sequence field and time stamp field of the test packet are used to count the number of one-way or/and two-way packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time of the multiple quality measurement packets during the transmission process The network quality measurement results are also recorded in the storage unit 151, as shown in Table 2.

Then, the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as quality measurement monitoring module A) of one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 (such as thread processing device a) completes the plurality of network connection devices 12 After the network quality measurement, the network quality measurement device 11 is communicatively connected to the northward open application program interface 150 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (such as the quality measurement monitoring module A) to access the storage unit 151 Obtain the network quality measurement results of the plurality of network connection devices 12 (such as the number of lost packets, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time), and then the network quality measurement device 11 obtains the plurality of networks The delay time of the traffic in the connection device 12 is abnormal, that is, as shown in Table 2, the packet delay time of the network connection device C is 5000ms, the packet delay variation time is 150ms, and the packet loss number is 25, so the network The connection device C is the one with abnormal traffic delay time.

Therefore, the network quality measurement device 11 uses the quality measurement monitoring module 15 (for example, the quality measurement monitoring module A) to compare the quality measurement terminal modules installed in the plurality of network connection devices 12 16 Perform network quality measurement to obtain the network quality measurement results of the plurality of network connection devices 12, and then find that the delay time of the traffic of the plurality of network connection devices 12 is abnormal when performing work By.

Figure 4 is a flow chart of the virtual service network quality measurement method of the present invention, and also refer to Figure 1, where:

In step S41, the network quality measurement device 11 is communicatively connected to the thread management device 10 to provide the deployment location and IP (Internet Protocol) of a quality measurement monitoring module 15 and a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 Network protocol) location and other information.

In step S42, the thread management device 10 generates a quality measurement monitoring image file corresponding to the quality measurement monitoring module 15, and transmits the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 and the quality measurement monitoring image file to One of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 generates the quality measurement monitoring module 15 from one of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 and configures the corresponding IP location.

In step S43, the thread management device 10 generates a plurality of quality measurement terminal image files corresponding to the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16, and transmits the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files to a plurality of thread processing Others of the device 14 and the other of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 respectively generate the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 and configure the corresponding IP locations.

In step S44, the network quality measurement equipment 11 is communicatively connected to the quality measurement monitoring module 15 to set the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 for the quality measurement monitoring module 15.

In step S45, the packet sending and counting unit 152 of the quality measurement monitoring module 15 respectively transmits and receives a plurality of quality measurement packets to the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16, so as to pass the plurality of The sequence and time stamp recorded by a quality measurement packet are then counted for the network quality measurement results of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules 16 (such as the number of lost packets, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time), and The network quality measurement result is stored in the storage unit 151.

In step S46, the network quality measurement device 11 is communicatively connected to the quality measurement monitoring module 15 to obtain the network quality measurement result from the storage unit 151.

In step S47, the network quality measurement device 11 instructs the thread management device 10 to stop the plurality of thread processing devices 14 and remove all the quality measurement monitoring modules 15 and the plurality of qualities测terminal module 16.

To sum up, telecom operators or cloud virtual service platform operators and virtual service application and lease customers can use network quality measurement to grasp the network quality of the plurality of thread processing devices 14 in the plurality of virtual service data platforms 13. In order to ensure that the network quality after the network equipment function is separated from the multiple virtual service data platforms 13 due to cloudification, there will be no time delay in communication, and after the network quality measurement is completed, the corresponding plural The quality measurement monitoring module 15 and the quality measurement terminal module 16 in one of the thread processing devices 14 stop operating and are removed, thereby not occupying additional hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, etc.) .

In summary, the virtual service network quality measurement system and method of the present invention can have the following advantages or technical effects.

1. The present invention dynamically generates, deploys, and removes the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement terminal module in a plurality of thread processing devices through virtualization technology, so as to achieve no occupation after the end of the network quality measurement The hardware resources of multiple thread processing devices.

2. The virtual service network quality measurement system of the present invention is built on the general server of the telecommunication network, not limited to traditional network equipment, and accesses the network quality measurement results through the northbound open application program interface.

3. Compared with the prior art network quality measurement path is only limited to the receiving end equipment to the Internet end, the present invention can also measure the network nodes in the network connection (such as routers, switches, etc.) ), it can also measure network quality in segments.

4. The present invention is a framework for testing quality of service (QoS), and network quality measurement and analysis such as the number of one-way or/and two-way data packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time of the network.

5. The visual network quality measurement equipment of the present invention (such as a virtual service network quality measurement analysis server) can provide periodic measurement and on-demand measurement analysis requirements, through thread management equipment (such as The virtual service network quality measurement analysis server) remotely executes the point-to-point network quality measurement of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement terminal module.

6. The present invention can provide telecommunication operators or cloud virtual service platform operators and virtual service application and lease customers to grasp the network quality between virtual service data platforms, and can also provide applications such as network quality analysis.

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16: Quality measurement terminal module

17: Virtual service thread

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A virtual service network quality measurement system, including: a network quality measurement device, which is used to provide the deployment location and IP (Internet Protocol) location of a quality measurement monitoring module, and a plurality of qualities The deployment location and IP location of the measurement terminal module; a thread management device is connected to the network quality measurement device through at least one of a plurality of network connection devices to receive the quality measurement monitoring The deployment location and IP location of both the module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the thread management device generates the quality measurement monitoring module and a corresponding quality measurement monitoring image file, the plurality of A quality measurement terminal module and corresponding multiple quality measurement terminal image files, wherein the thread management device is deployed according to both the quality measurement monitoring module and the multiple quality measurement terminal modules Location, transmitting the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement monitoring image file, and the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files; and a plurality of executions The thread processing device is set on at least one of the plurality of virtual service data platforms to communicate with the thread management device via the counterpart of the plurality of network connection devices, and the plurality of thread processing devices are used to receive the The IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement monitoring image file, and the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules and the plurality of quality measurement terminal images, wherein the plurality of threads are processed According to the deployment positions of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, the equipment generates the quality measurement monitoring module on one of the plurality of thread processing equipment and configures the quality Measure the IP location of the monitoring module, and generate the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules on the other of the plurality of thread processing devices, so that the quality measurement monitoring module can use the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules Perform network quality measurement, Wherein, after the network quality measurement is completed, the quality measurement monitoring module transmits the network quality measurement result to the network quality measurement device, and the network quality measurement device instructs the thread management device, In order to stop the operation of the plurality of thread processing devices and remove the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. The system according to claim 1, wherein the quality measurement monitoring module includes a northbound open application program interface, so that the network quality measurement device can pass through the northbound open application program interface of the quality measurement monitoring module Configure the IP locations of the multiple quality measurement terminal modules. The system according to claim 1, wherein the quality measurement monitoring module includes a storage unit for storing the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. The system according to claim 3, wherein the quality measurement monitoring module includes a packet sending and statistics unit for reading the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules in the storage unit to determine Whether there are those who have not performed the network quality measurement, where, when there is at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules that have not performed the network quality measurement, the packet transmission and statistics unit will schedule and Send a plurality of quality measurement packets to the corresponding IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. The system according to claim 4, wherein after at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules receives one of the plurality of quality measurement packets from the packet receiving and statistics unit, At least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules returns one of the plurality of quality measurement packets to the packet transmission and statistics unit, so that the packet transmission and statistics unit depends on the plurality of qualities Count the network quality measurement results of at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules based on the sequence and time stamp recorded in the packet transmission process, and then the packet transmission and statistics unit will determine the network quality The measurement result is stored in the storage unit. The system according to claim 1, wherein the network quality measurement result includes the number of unidirectional or bidirectional packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time of the plurality of quality measurement packets during the transmission process. The system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of network connection devices further include a plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the quality measurement monitoring module is for the plurality of network connection devices At least one of the quality measurement terminal modules performs network quality measurement, and then transmits the network quality measurement results of the plurality of network connection devices to the network quality measurement device. A method for measuring the quality of a virtual service network includes the following steps: enabling a network quality measurement device to provide the deployment location and IP (Internet Protocol) location of a quality measurement monitoring module, and a plurality of qualities The deployment location and IP location of the test terminal module; enable a thread management device to communicate with the network quality measurement device to receive the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules Deploy the location and IP location, and the thread management device generates the quality measurement monitoring module and a corresponding quality measurement monitoring image file, the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the corresponding plurality of qualities A measurement terminal image file, wherein the thread management device transmits the IP location and the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module according to the deployment location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules The quality measurement monitoring image file, the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules, and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files; and the plurality of thread processing devices are installed on at least of the plurality of virtual service data platforms One is connected to the thread management device by communication, and the plurality of thread processing devices receive the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module and the quality measurement monitoring image file, and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules The IP location and the plurality of quality measurement terminal image files, wherein the plurality of thread processing devices are based on the deployment positions of the quality measurement monitoring module and the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules in the plurality of Thread One of the processing equipment generates the quality measurement monitoring module and configures the IP location of the quality measurement monitoring module, and generates the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules on the other of the plurality of thread processing devices, so as to The quality measurement monitoring module performs network quality measurement on the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. After the network quality measurement is completed, the quality measurement monitoring module is made to measure the network quality The result is sent to the network quality measurement device, and the network quality measurement device instructs the thread management device to stop the plurality of thread processing devices and remove the quality measurement monitoring module and the Multiple quality measurement terminal modules. The method according to claim 8, wherein the network quality measurement equipment configures the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules through the northbound open application program interface of the quality measurement monitoring module. The method according to claim 8, wherein the storage unit of the quality measurement monitoring module stores the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. The method according to claim 10, wherein the packet sending and statistics unit of the quality measurement monitoring module is made to read the IP locations of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules in the storage unit to determine whether there is any Those who perform network quality measurement, where, when there is at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules that have not performed network quality measurement, the packet sending and statistics unit are scheduled and sent separately A plurality of quality measurement packets are sent to the corresponding IP positions of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules. The method according to claim 11, wherein after at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules receives one of the plurality of quality measurement packets from the packet receiving and statistics unit, Make at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules to return one of the plurality of quality measurement packets to the packet transmission and statistics unit, so that the packet transmission and statistics unit depends on the plurality of qualities Measure the sequence and time stamp recorded during the transmission of the measurement packet and count the multiple quality measurement terminal modules The network quality measurement result of at least one of the groups is then stored in the storage unit by the packet sending and statistics unit. The method according to claim 8, wherein the network quality measurement result includes the number of one-way or two-way packet loss, packet delay time, and packet delay variation time of the plurality of quality measurement packets in the transmission process. The method according to claim 8, further comprising enabling a plurality of network connection devices to communicate with the network quality measuring device, the thread management device and the plurality of thread processing devices. The method according to claim 14, wherein the quality measurement monitoring module is caused to perform network quality measurement on at least one of the plurality of quality measurement terminal modules of the plurality of network connection devices, and then The network quality measurement results of the plurality of network connection devices are sent to the network quality measurement device.

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