CN115208777A

CN115208777A - Information processing method, device, platform equipment and network equipment

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Publication number: CN115208777A
Application number: CN202110320115.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谷尚铭; 施南翔; 刘景磊
Original assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Ltd Research Institute
Current assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Ltd Research Institute
Priority date: 2021-03-25
Filing date: 2021-03-25
Publication date: 2022-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 2041-03-25

Abstract

The invention provides an information processing method, an information processing device, platform equipment and network equipment, wherein the information processing method comprises the following steps: receiving demand information of a first service sent by a client; acquiring time-sensitive network TSN (service time network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service; sending the TSN demand information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; and sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment. The technical scheme can decompose the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the TSN SLA and the whole SLA of the industry network obtained subsequently, so as to cover an application system and a communication network, can manage the end-to-end index of the SLA of the industry network, realize the end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and is beneficial to meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

Description

Information processing method, device, platform equipment and network equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an information processing method and apparatus, a platform device, and a network device.

Background

The service level agreement SLA is a part of the business agreement between the operator and the user, and the SLA includes the relevant requirements of the user for the service and the network provided by the operator. The TSN (Time Sensitive Network) provides deterministic message transmission based on a standard non-deterministic Ethernet through the technologies of clock synchronization, traffic shaping, bandwidth reservation and the like, and guarantees low Time delay, deterministic Time delay, reliability and the like of the Network.

The decomposition and management method aiming at SLA in the prior art has the following defects:

1. in the prior art, the situation that the client demand is not targeted is existed: customer requirements cannot be accurately matched and decomposed to a corresponding system or network, and the mapped indexes cannot specifically solve the customer requirements. The existing scheme can only combine the existing template parameters of the slices to correspond to the customer requirements, and aims at SLA decomposition and management in a certain scene or some scenes, and can not process and solve the individualized requirements of downstream customers in any scene.

2. In the prior art, there is no end-to-end solution to the customer personalization needs: the existing solution only involves SLA decomposition and management of the network part, does not involve an application system, and cannot realize deterministic management of the end-to-end index of the system, so that the strict requirement of a client in the high business demand industry on the index is difficult to guarantee.

3. In order to meet the requirements of industrial customers, the slicing technology of the current 5G system supports personalized design on a basic slicing template based on network capacity, and the network function is customized according to the requirements of the customers. The method comprises the steps of carrying out differential definition in a section template design stage, carrying out differential arrangement in an instantiation stage and carrying out real-time monitoring on service quality in a section operation stage, realizing definition as required and arrangement as required, and meeting the differential requirements of different services on a network. However, in the prior art, the SLA mainly considers the slicing technology, and is considered less for the whole industry network.

From the above, the existing information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management has the problems of poor pertinence, incapability of realizing deterministic management of end-to-end indexes, less overall consideration of an industrial network and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an information processing method, an information processing device, a platform device and a network device, and aims to solve the problem that an information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize deterministic management of end-to-end indexes.

In order to solve the foregoing technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing method, which is applied to a platform device, and includes:

receiving demand information of a first service sent by a client;

acquiring time-sensitive network TSN (service time network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service;

sending the TSN demand information to time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) equipment;

sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment;

wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information.

Optionally, the obtaining time sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service includes:

and under the condition that the requirement information of the first service belongs to a preset requirement type, obtaining time-sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method, which is applied to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment and comprises the following steps:

receiving time-sensitive network TSN (time sensitive network) demand information sent by platform equipment;

determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment;

receiving a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameter;

and sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment.

Optionally, the determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN requirement information includes:

and determining the TSN system parameters according to the first corresponding relation between the TSN demand information and the TSN system parameters and the TSN demand information.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method which is applied to PCF equipment with a packet control function and comprises the following steps:

receiving TSN system parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters;

and feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment.

Optionally, the determining, according to the TSN system parameter, an SLA parameter of a TSN service level agreement includes:

and determining the TSN SLA parameters according to the second corresponding relation between the TSN system parameters and the TSN SLA parameters and the TSN system parameters.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method applied to industry network service level agreement SLA equipment, which comprises the following steps:

receiving SLA requirement information sent by platform equipment and receiving TSN SLA parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information;

obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters;

and sending the SLA parameters to be processed to a communication service management function CSMF (Carrier sense multiple function) device.

Optionally, the determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information includes:

and determining the industry network SLA parameters according to the third corresponding relation between the SLA demand information and the industry network SLA parameters and the SLA demand information.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method, which is applied to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function and comprises the following steps:

receiving SLA parameters to be processed sent by industry network service level agreement SLA equipment;

obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed;

sending the network slice instance request to a network slice management function NSMF device;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method, which is applied to NSMF (network slice management function) equipment and comprises the following steps:

receiving a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information;

the SLA index information of the at least two network domains is respectively sent to corresponding network domain equipment;

wherein the at least two network domains comprise: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, applied to a platform device, including:

the first receiving module is used for receiving the requirement information of the first service sent by the client;

the first processing module is used for obtaining time sensitive network TSN demand information and SLA demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service;

the first sending module is used for sending the TSN requirement information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

the second sending module is used for sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment;

and under the condition that the requirement information of the first service belongs to a preset requirement type, obtaining Time Sensitive Network (TSN) requirement information and Service Level Assignment (SLA) requirement information of an industry network according to the requirement information of the first service.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing device, which is applied to the TSN AF equipment with the time-sensitive network application function and comprises the following steps:

the second receiving module is used for receiving the time-sensitive network TSN demand information sent by the platform equipment;

the first determining module is used for determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

a third sending module, configured to send the TSN system parameter to a packet control function PCF device;

a third receiving module, configured to receive a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF device according to the TSN system parameter;

and the fourth sending module is used for sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing device, which is applied to PCF equipment with a packet control function, and comprises the following components:

the fourth receiving module is used for receiving the TSN system parameters sent by the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

the second determining module is used for determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters;

and the first feedback module is used for feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment.

Optionally, the determining, according to the TSN system parameter, a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter includes:

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing device, which is applied to industry network service level agreement SLA equipment and comprises:

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive SLA requirement information sent by the platform device and receive TSN SLA parameters sent by the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

the third determining module is used for determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information;

the second processing module is used for obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters;

and the fifth sending module is used for sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF (communication service management function) equipment.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a CSMF device with a communication service management function, and includes:

a sixth receiving module, configured to receive a to-be-processed SLA parameter sent by an industry network service level agreement SLA device;

the third processing module is used for obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed;

a sixth sending module, configured to send the network slice instance request to a network slice management function NSMF device;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a network slice management function NSMF device, and includes:

a seventh receiving module, configured to receive a network slice instance request sent by a CSMF device having a communication service management function, where the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

a fourth processing module, configured to obtain SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information;

a seventh sending module, configured to send the SLA index information of the at least two domains to corresponding domain devices respectively;

wherein the at least two domains include: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a platform device, including: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving the requirement information of the first service sent by the client through the transceiver;

sending the TSN requirement information to a time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) device through the transceiver;

sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment through the transceiver;

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device, and the network device includes: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving time-sensitive network TSN requirement information sent by the platform device through the transceiver;

determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment through the transceiver;

receiving, by the transceiver, a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF device according to the TSN system parameter;

and sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment through the transceiver.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a packet control function PCF device, and the network device includes: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving TSN system parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) device through the transceiver;

and feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF device through the transceiver.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is an industry network service level agreement SLA device, and the network device includes: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving SLA requirement information sent by the platform equipment and receiving TSN SLA parameters sent by the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment through the transceiver;

and sending the SLA parameters to be processed to a Communication Service Management Function (CSMF) device through the transceiver.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a network device, which is a CSMF device with communication service management function, and comprises: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving the SLA parameters to be processed sent by the SLA equipment of the industry network service level agreement through the transceiver;

sending, by the transceiver, the network slice instance request to a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) device;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a network slice management function NSMF device, and the network device includes: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment through the transceiver, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

sending the SLA index information of the at least two network domains to corresponding network domain equipment through the transceiver respectively;

The embodiment of the invention also provides platform equipment, which comprises a memory, a processor and a program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor; the processor implements the information processing method on the platform device side when executing the program.

The embodiment of the invention also provides network equipment, which comprises a memory, a processor and a program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor; the processor realizes the information processing method of the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side when executing the program; or,

the processor realizes the information processing method of the packet control function PCF equipment side when executing the program; or,

the processor executes the program to realize the information processing method of the industry network service level agreement SLA equipment side; or,

when the processor executes the program, the processor realizes the information processing method of the CSMF device side with the communication service management function; or,

the processor implements the information processing method on the network slice management function NSMF device side when executing the program.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a readable storage medium, wherein a program is stored on the readable storage medium, and the program realizes the steps in the information processing method of the platform equipment side when being executed by a processor; or,

when the program is executed by a processor, the steps in the information processing method on the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side are realized; or,

when the program is executed by a processor, the program realizes the steps of the information processing method of the PCF device side; or,

when the program is executed by a processor, the steps in the information processing method of the industry network service level agreement SLA equipment side are realized; or,

when executed by a processor, the program realizes the steps in the information processing method on the CSMF device side; or,

the program realizes the steps in the information processing method on the network slice management function NSMF device side described above when executed by a processor.

The technical scheme of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

in the above scheme, the information processing method receives the requirement information of the first service sent by the client; according to the demand information of the first service, obtaining time sensitive network TSN demand information and SLA demand information of an industry network; sending the TSN demand information to time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) equipment; sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information; the system can decompose the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the TSN SLA and the whole SLA of the industry network obtained subsequently, so as to cover an application system and a communication network, can manage the end-to-end index of the SLA of the industry network, realize the end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and is beneficial to meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

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FIG. 1 is a first flowchart illustrating an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a second flowchart illustrating an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a third schematic flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a fifth exemplary embodiment of an information processing method;

FIG. 6 is a sixth schematic flow chart of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a framework for implementing an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an exploded view of an industry customer demand embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of an information processing method according to the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a first block diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a second block diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a third schematic structural diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a fourth exemplary embodiment of an information processing apparatus;

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a sixth block diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a platform device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a first schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of a network device according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 19 is a third schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 20 is a fourth schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 21 is a fifth schematic structural diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

To make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following detailed description is given with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

The present invention provides an information processing method, applied to a platform device, for solving the problem that an information processing scheme for SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize deterministic management of end-to-end indicators, as shown in fig. 1, including:

step 11: receiving demand information of a first service sent by a client;

step 12: according to the demand information of the first service, obtaining time sensitive network TSN demand information and SLA demand information of an industry network;

step 13: sending the TSN demand information to time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) equipment;

step 14: sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service comprises: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information.

The platform device can be specifically realized as a demand analysis forwarding platform; with respect to step 12, comprising: decomposing the requirement information of the first service to obtain time sensitive network TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network;

in the embodiment of the invention, the TSN and the industry network (namely the industry network) jointly form an end-to-end network. With respect to the industry web, it can be understood that: based on the authorized spectrum, the network provides the 5G communication service with customizable service range, network capability and isolation for industrial users.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the requirement information of the first service sent by the client; acquiring time-sensitive network TSN (service time network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service; sending the TSN requirement information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service comprises: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and industry network integral SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the industry network SLAs, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be favorable for meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining time sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service includes: and under the condition that the requirement information of the first service belongs to a preset requirement type, obtaining Time Sensitive Network (TSN) requirement information and Service Level Assignment (SLA) requirement information of an industry network according to the requirement information of the first service.

The preset requirement type can be predefined individual requirement, but not universal requirement.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device, and as shown in fig. 2, the method includes:

step 21: receiving time-sensitive network TSN (time sensitive network) demand information sent by platform equipment;

step 22: determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

step 23: sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment;

and step 24: receiving TSN service level agreement SLA parameters fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameters;

step 25: and sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the TSN (time sensitive network) demand information sent by the platform equipment; determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information; sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment; receiving TSN service level agreement SLA parameters fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameters; sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

Wherein, the determining the TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information comprises: and determining the TSN system parameters according to the first corresponding relation between the TSN demand information and the TSN system parameters and the TSN demand information.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to a PCF device with a packet control function, and as shown in fig. 3, the method includes:

step 31: receiving TSN system parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

step 32: determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters;

step 33: and feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives TSN system parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters; feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

Determining the parameters of the TSN service level agreement SLA according to the parameters of the TSN system comprises the following steps: and determining the TSN SLA parameters according to the second corresponding relation between the TSN system parameters and the TSN SLA parameters and the TSN system parameters.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to an industry network service level agreement SLA device, as shown in fig. 4, and includes:

step 41: receiving SLA requirement information sent by platform equipment and receiving TSN SLA parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

step 42: determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information;

step 43: obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters;

and step 44: and sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function.

With respect to step 43, it may include: and carrying out domain granulation primary treatment on the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters to obtain SLA parameters to be treated.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives SLA requirement information sent by platform equipment and TSN SLA parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information; obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters; sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

Wherein, determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information comprises: and determining the industry network SLA parameters according to the third corresponding relation between the SLA demand information and the industry network SLA parameters and the SLA demand information.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to a CSMF device with a communication service management function, and as shown in fig. 5, the information processing method includes:

step 51: receiving SLA parameters to be processed sent by industry network service level agreement SLA equipment;

step 52: obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed;

step 53: sending the network slice instance request to a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) device; wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the SLA parameters to be processed sent by the SLA equipment of the industry network service level agreement; obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed; sending the network slice instance request to a network slice management function NSMF device; the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to an NSMF device with a network slice management function, and as shown in fig. 6, the method includes:

step 61: receiving a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

step 62: obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information;

and step 63: the SLA index information of the at least two network domains is respectively sent to corresponding network domain equipment; wherein the at least two domains include: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment with a communication service management function, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information; the SLA index information of the at least two network domains is respectively sent to corresponding network domain equipment; wherein the at least two network domains comprise: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In addition, the method can further support the follow-up further decomposition of the target industry network overall SLA (corresponding to the SLA parameters to be processed) obtained according to the TSN SLA and the industry network overall SLA into a core network SLA, a bearer network SLA and a wireless network SLA; therefore, the industry customer requirements can be accurately distributed to the corresponding execution domain, the pertinence of SLA management is enhanced, and the problem that the customer needs to solve the pertinence in the prior art is solved; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art is poor in pertinence is solved well.

Obtaining the SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information, wherein the obtaining the SLA index information of at least two network domains comprises: and obtaining the SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the fourth corresponding relation between the SLA index information and the SLA index information of each network domain and the SLA index information.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing method, which is applied to a domain device, and includes: receiving SLA index information corresponding to the network domain equipment and sent by NSMF equipment; the network domain equipment is core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF equipment, wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF equipment or bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF equipment.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention receives SLA index information corresponding to the network domain equipment and sent by a network slice management function NSMF equipment; the network domain equipment is core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF equipment, wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF equipment or bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In addition, the method can also support the follow-up further decomposition of the target industry network overall SLA (corresponding to the SLA parameters to be processed) obtained according to the TSN SLA and the industry network overall SLA into a core network SLA, a bearer network SLA and a wireless network SLA; therefore, the industry customer requirements can be accurately distributed to the corresponding execution domain, the pertinence of SLA management is enhanced, and the problem that the customer needs to solve the pertinence in the prior art is solved; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art is poor in pertinence is solved well.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an information processing method, which is applied to a terminal and comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps of sending requirement information of a first service to platform equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information.

Wherein, the requirement information of the first service can be obtained according to the scene characteristics of the customer industry.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention sends the requirement information of the first service to the platform equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and industry network integral SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the industry network SLAs, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be favorable for meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The information processing method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is further described below, where the TSN is 5G TSN as an example.

In view of the above technical problems, an embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing method, which can be implemented as a conversion method for decomposing industry customer requirements into 5G TSN SLAs and industry network SLAs, and mainly involves:

1. in the scheme, the industry customer requirements are decomposed into application system requirement information (corresponding to the TSN requirement information) and communication network requirement information (corresponding to the SLA requirement information) through a requirement analysis forwarding platform (corresponding to the platform equipment); and further acquiring application system SLAs (corresponding to the TSN SLA parameters) and communication network SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters), and then integrating the acquired communication network SLAs (corresponding to the to-be-processed SLA parameters) to further decompose the communication network SLAs into core network SLAs, bearer network SLAs and wireless network SLAs. By accurately distributing the industry customer demands to the corresponding execution domains, the pertinence of SLA management is enhanced.

2. In the scheme, the decomposition range of the SLA covers an application system and a communication network, and the SLA comprises a core network, a bearing network, a wireless network and a client side system, so that the SLA of the industry network can be managed end to end, and the end to end guarantee for the requirements of industry clients is realized.

3. In the scheme, the SLA is popularized to the whole industry network, the realization and management of the whole SLA of the industry network are achieved, the application range of the SLA is expanded, and the guarantee capability of the SLA is enhanced.

Specifically, the scheme comprises the following three parts:

part one, implementing the architecture;

the implementation framework of the conversion method proposed by the present solution for decomposing the industry customer requirements into 5G TSN SLA and industry network SLA (corresponding to the above industry network SLA parameters) can be shown in fig. 7, where:

1. the customer requirements (corresponding to the requirement information) are personalized requirements and feedback provided to the operator according to the characteristics of the customer industry scene.

2. The demand analysis forwarding platform can comprise a 5G TSN SLA module (corresponding to the TSN AF device and the PCF device) and an industry network overall SLA module (corresponding to the industry network SLA device), and is responsible for converting personalized demands from industry network customers into quantifiable executable communication indexes, and forwarding the quantifiable executable communication indexes to the application system and the communication network respectively to form 5G TSN SLA parameters of the application system and industry network overall SLA parameters of the communication network (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters).

3. The target industry network overall SLA (corresponding to the SLA parameters to be processed) obtained according to the TSN SLA and the industry network overall SLA can be decomposed into the domain granulation SLAs (namely the core network SLA, the bearer network SLA and the wireless network SLA) of the core network, the bearer network and the wireless network, and the end-to-end guarantee of the industry network overall SLA is realized through the cooperative guarantee of each domain, so that the customer requirements are met.

4. The 5G TSN system in the application system is provided with the index parameters (corresponding to the TSN system parameters), when the demand forwarding platform issues the customer demands (corresponding to the TSN demand information) to the 5G TSN system in the application system, the 5G TSN system needs to map the index parameters to 5G TSN SLAs (corresponding to the TSN SLA parameters), and then the index parameters are converted into a part of the target industry network integral SLA parameters.

Part two, a mapping method;

the overall mapping relationship (including the first corresponding relationship, the second corresponding relationship, the third corresponding relationship and the fourth corresponding relationship) which is proposed by the scheme and is used for decomposing the industry customer requirements into the 5G TSN SLA (corresponding to the TSN SLA parameters) and the industry network SLA (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) can be shown in fig. 8:

1. the demands from industry customers are mainly related to latency, jitter, bandwidth and mobility, reliability, etc. The requirement analysis forwarding platform maps the client requirements into application system parameters (corresponding to the TSN SLA parameters) and communication network parameters (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) by means of a 5G TSN SLA module and an industry network overall SLA module respectively.

2. The application system is the 5G TSN system. The 5G TSN system integrates the 5G system in the TSN system as a 'logical bridge' form, and the parameters of the TSN system are mapped into the 5G TSN system parameters. The parameters of the TSN system itself include Priority, delay, maximum TSC Burst Size, maximum Flow Bitrate, and the like.

The TSN AF (i.e. the TSN AF device) determines TSN system parameters (corresponding to the TSN system parameters) based on 5GS bridge configuration information from CNC (centralized network configuration), bridge delay information in the AF, and UE-DS-TT (user terminal-device side-TSN converter) residence time, and forwards them to the PCF, which converts them into 5G TSN SLA (corresponding to the TSN SLA parameters).

Specifically, the mapping relationship between the TSN system parameters and the 5G TSN SLA is shown in table 1 below:

TABLE 1 mapping relation between TSN system parameters and 5G TSN SLAs

3. The communication network parameters are the integral SLA of the industry network. The demand analysis forwarding platform utilizes an industry network overall SLA module to map SLA demand information in client demands into industry network overall SLAs, and parameters of the industry network overall SLAs include Delay, UEMobiltyLevel (terminal mobility level), availability (communication service Availability), dLDatarate (downlink data rate), uLDatarate (uplink data rate), maxPtSize (maximum packet capacity), UEActivityRate (active terminal ratio or terminal activity rate), jitter, survivability time (time to live), reliability and the like.

The application system is used as a part of an end-to-end system, and the parameters of the application system are also summarized into the overall parameters (corresponding to the SLA parameters to be processed) of the communication network; namely, the 5G TSN SLA is contained in the target industry network integral SLA.

The industry network overall SLA can be mapped to the domain granulation SLA, and the specific mapping is shown in the following table 2:

TABLE 2 mapping relationship between industry Web Overall SLA and Domain granular SLA

Delay _ CN in the table represents core network Delay; delay _ AN represents wireless network Delay; UEMobilitylevel _ AN represents the mobility grade of the wireless network terminal; availability _ TN represents bearer network communication service Availability; dlatarate _ CN indicates the core network downlink data rate; dlatarate _ TN represents the bearer network downlink data rate; uLDataRate _ CN represents the core network uplink data rate; the uLDatarate _ TN represents the uplink data rate of the bearer network; maxPktSize _ CN represents the maximum packet capacity of the core network; maxPktSize _ AN represents the maximum packet capacity of the wireless network; UEActivityRate _ CN represents core network active terminal ratio; ueactityrate _ AN represents a wireless network active terminal ratio; survivalTime _ CN represents the life time of the core network; survivalTime _ AN represents the wireless network lifetime; reliability _ CN represents core network Reliability.

Thirdly, flow;

the specific process of the conversion method for decomposing the industry customer requirements into 5G TSN SLAs and industry network SLAs according to the scheme is shown in fig. 9, and includes:

step 91, the customer puts forward a demand to a demand analysis forwarding platform; the client can use the terminal to provide the requirement to the requirement analysis forwarding platform.

Specifically, the industry client puts requirements (i.e., the above industry client requirements) to the operator, the operator provides a portal for the client to authenticate, and the client can input the requirements to the requirement analysis forwarding platform through the provided API (application program interface). For general requirements, a client can directly make operation calls through the API (not shown in FIG. 9); for personalized requirements, the requirement analysis forwarding platform performs further decomposition processing (i.e., step 92 below). In the scheme, an operator can provide API matching and mapping, and distinguish general and personalized processing respectively.

Personalized requirements refer to requirements set by a customer, and general requirements refer to requirements solved by general services provided by an operator.

Step 92, the requirement analysis forwarding platform decomposes and forwards the requirement of the client;

specifically, the customer requirements are decomposed into the TSN requirement information and the SLA requirement information of the industry network, and the TSN AF in the 5G TSN SLA module and the whole SLA module of the industry network are respectively forwarded; so as to obtain 5G TSN SLA and industry network integral SLA in the following.

Step 93, determining the self parameters of the TSN system by the TSN AF in the 5G TSN SLA module according to the TSN demand information;

step 94, the TSN AF forwards the parameters of the TSN system to the PCF in the 5G TSN SLA module;

step 95, PCF converts TSN system parameters into 5G TSN SLA;

specifically, in the 5G TSN system, the TSN AF determines the TSN system parameters and forwards them to the PCF. The PCF (which may be in accordance with table 1 above) translates TSN system own parameters into 5G TSN SLA parameters.

Step 96, PCF feeds back 5G TSN SLA to TSN AF;

step 97, the TSN AF sends the 5G TSN SLA to an industry network overall SLA module;

it can also be understood that the 5G TSN SLA parameters are summarized to the industry web overall SLA module.

Step 98, obtaining industry network SLA parameters by the industry network integral SLA module according to the SLA requirement information;

step 98 may be performed before any of step 93 to step 97 or after step 97, which is not limited herein;

step 99, the industry network integral SLA module obtains SLA parameters to be processed (namely the objective industry network integral SLA) according to the 5G TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters; and forwarded to CSMF (corresponding to the CSMF device described above);

specifically, the industry network integral SLA module carries out regional granulation primary treatment on the received two parts of SLA parameters to obtain customer requirement conversion parameters (namely the SLA parameters to be treated); and sends the customer demand conversion parameter to a CSMF (communication service management function).

Step 910, the CSMF issues a request for allocating a network slice instance to a network slice management function NSMF (corresponding to the NSMF device) according to the customer requirement conversion parameter, and carries an SLA index (i.e. the SLA index information); the NSMF (according to table 2 above) is responsible for decomposing the SLA metrics of the core network, the bearer network and the wireless network (corresponding to the SLA metric information obtained from the SLA metric information for at least two network domains).

911, the NSMF decomposes the SLA index into NSSMF (network slice subnet management function, corresponding to the above-mentioned network domain device) of each domain;

specifically, the NSMF decomposes the request according to the network slice instance to obtain the core network SLA, the bearer network SLA and the wireless network SLA, and respectively forwards the core network SLA, the bearer network SLA and the wireless network SLA to a CN (core network) -NSSMF (network slice subnet management function), AN (wireless network) -NSSMF and a TN (bearer network) -NSSMF.

That is, the NSMF forwards the decomposed core network SLA, bearer network SLA and radio network SLA to CN (core network) -NSSMF (network slice subnet management function), AN (radio network) -NSSMF, TN (bearer network) -NSSMF, respectively. CN-NSSMF, AN-NSSMF and TN-NSSMF are responsible for ensuring the achievement of the issued SLA index in the communication network.

In view of the above, the present solution provides a framework for decomposing the industry customer requirements into 5G TSN SLAs and industry network SLAs (corresponding to the industry network overall SLAs), and under the framework, the requirement analysis forwarding platform decomposes the customer requirements from the industry customers into application system SLA parameters and communication network SLA parameters by means of the 5G TSN SLA module and the industry network overall SLA module. The system SLA parameters and the communication network SLA parameters can be synthesized into the overall SLA of the target industry network. The whole SLA of the target industry network can be decomposed into domain granular SLAs, namely a core network SLA, a bearer network SLA and a wireless network SLA.

In addition, the scheme provides a conversion method for decomposing the industry customer requirements into 5G TSN SLAs and industry network SLAs, and the method comprises the following steps:

(1) The demand analysis forwarding platform maps the customer demands into application system SLAs and communication network SLAs respectively by means of a 5G TSN SLA module and an industry network overall SLA module. The application system SLA is a 5G TSN SLA, and the communication network SLA is an industry network integral SLA.

(2) In the 5G TSN system, the TSN AF decides the self parameters of the 5G TSN system and forwards the parameters to the PCF, and the PCF converts the self parameters of the 5G TSN system into the 5G TSN SLA. The scheme provides a mapping relation between the TSN system parameters and the 5G TSN SLA.

(3) The application system is a part of an end-to-end system, and the parameters of the application system are also summarized into the overall parameters of the industry network (namely the overall SLA of the target industry network). Namely, the 5G TSN system can realize the near guarantee of customer requirements, and the 5G TSN SLA parameters are contained in the overall SLA parameters of the target industry network.

(4) The whole SLA of the target industry network can be mapped to a regional granular SLA, namely a core network SLA, a bearing network SLA and a wireless network SLA. In addition, the scheme provides a specific mapping relation of mapping the whole SLA of the industry network to the domain-divided granular SLA, which is specifically referred to the table 2.

To sum up, the scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention is as follows:

1. by introducing the demand analysis forwarding platform, the industry customer demand can be decomposed into 5G TSN SLAs and industry network overall SLAs, and the target industry network overall SLAs obtained according to the 5G TSN SLAs and the industry network overall SLAs can be further decomposed into core network SLAs, bearer network SLAs and wireless network SLAs. Therefore, the industry customer requirements can be accurately distributed to the corresponding execution domains, the pertinence of SLA management is enhanced, and the problem that the customer needs to solve the pertinence in the prior art is solved.

2. The decomposition of SLA relates to an end-to-end network, covers an application system and a communication network, comprises a core network, a bearing network and a wireless network, can perform end-to-end management of the SLA of an industry network, realizes end-to-end guarantee of the requirements of industry clients, and is beneficial to meeting the strict requirements of the industry clients with high business requirements.

3. The SLA is popularized to the whole industry network, the realization and management of the whole SLA of the industry network are achieved, and the guarantee capability of the SLA is enhanced.

4. The end-to-end system has dynamics and a feedback mechanism, the demand analysis forwarding platform can dynamically adjust the SLA allocation scheme according to the industry customer demands and system feedback (corresponding parameters corresponding to the industry customer demands), the flexibility of the system (namely the end-to-end system consisting of the 5G TSN system and the industry network) is enhanced, and the requirements of the industry customers can be met more accurately.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a platform device, and as shown in fig. 10, includes:

a first receiving module 101, configured to receive requirement information of a first service sent by a client;

the first processing module 102 is configured to obtain time-sensitive network TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network according to the requirement information of the first service;

a first sending module 103, configured to send the TSN requirement information to a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

a second sending module 104, configured to send the SLA requirement information to an industry network SLA device;

wherein the requirement information of the first service comprises: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information.

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the requirement information of the first service sent by the client; acquiring time-sensitive network TSN (service time network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service; sending the TSN requirement information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the platform device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the information processing apparatus, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device, as shown in fig. 11, and includes:

a second receiving module 111, configured to receive time-sensitive network TSN requirement information sent by a platform device;

a first determining module 112, configured to determine a TSN system parameter according to the TSN requirement information;

a third sending module 113, configured to send the TSN system parameter to a packet control function PCF device;

a third receiving module 114, configured to receive a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF device according to the TSN system parameter;

a fourth sending module 115, configured to send the TSN SLA parameter to an industry network SLA device.

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the time-sensitive network TSN demand information sent by the platform equipment; determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information; sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment; receiving TSN service level agreement SLA parameters fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameters; sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN requirement information includes: and determining the TSN system parameters according to the first corresponding relation between the TSN demand information and the TSN system parameters and the TSN demand information.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the information processing apparatus, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a PCF device with a packet control function, as shown in fig. 12, and includes:

a fourth receiving module 121, configured to receive TSN system parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

a second determining module 122, configured to determine, according to the TSN system parameter, a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter;

a first feedback module 123, configured to feed back the TSN SLA parameter to the TSN AF device.

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives TSN system parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters; feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the determining, according to the TSN system parameter, an SLA parameter of a TSN service level agreement includes: and determining the TSN SLA parameters according to the second corresponding relation between the TSN system parameters and the TSN SLA parameters and the TSN system parameters.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the PCF apparatus side are all applicable to the embodiment of the information processing apparatus, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to an industry network service level agreement SLA device, as shown in fig. 13, and includes:

a fifth receiving module 131, configured to receive SLA requirement information sent by the platform device and receive TSN SLA parameters sent by the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

a third determining module 132, configured to determine industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information;

a second processing module 133, configured to obtain a to-be-processed SLA parameter according to the TSN SLA parameter and the industry network SLA parameter;

a fifth sending module 134, configured to send the to-be-processed SLA parameter to a communication service management function CSMF device.

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives SLA requirement information sent by platform equipment and TSN SLA parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information; obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters; sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information includes: and determining the industry network SLA parameters according to the third corresponding relation between the SLA demand information and the industry network SLA parameters and the SLA demand information.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the SLA device side of the industry network service level agreement are all suitable for the embodiment of the information processing device, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to a CSMF device with a communication service management function, and as shown in fig. 14, the information processing apparatus includes:

a sixth receiving module 141, configured to receive the SLA parameter to be processed sent by the industry network service level agreement SLA device;

a third processing module 142, configured to obtain a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameter to be processed;

a sixth sending module 143, configured to send the network slice instance request to a network slice management function NSMF device;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the SLA parameters to be processed sent by the SLA equipment of the industry network service level agreement; obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed; sending the network slice instance request to a network slice management function NSMF device; the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the CSMF device side with communication service management function are all applicable to the embodiment of the information processing apparatus, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides an information processing apparatus, which is applied to an NSMF device with a network slice management function, and as shown in fig. 15, the information processing apparatus includes:

a seventh receiving module 151, configured to receive a network slice instance request sent by a CSMF device with a communication service management function, where the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

a fourth processing module 152, configured to obtain SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information;

a seventh sending module 153, configured to send the SLA index information of the at least two domains to corresponding domain devices, respectively;

The information processing device provided by the embodiment of the invention receives a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment with a communication service management function, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information; the SLA index information of the at least two network domains is respectively sent to corresponding network domain equipment; wherein the at least two domains include: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and industry network integral SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the industry network SLAs, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be favorable for meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the NSMF device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the information processing apparatus, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a platform device, as shown in fig. 16, including: a processor 161 and a transceiver 162;

the processor 161 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 162, requirement information of a first service sent by a client;

sending the TSN requirement information to a time sensitive network application function TSN AF device via the transceiver 162;

sending the SLA requirement information to an industry network SLA device via the transceiver 162;

The platform equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the requirement information of the first service sent by the client; acquiring time-sensitive network TSN (service time network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service; sending the TSN requirement information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment; wherein the requirement information of the first service includes: at least one of network delay requirement information, network jitter requirement information, bandwidth requirement information, mobility requirement information, and reliability requirement information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining time sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service includes: and under the condition that the requirement information of the first service belongs to a preset requirement type, obtaining time-sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the platform device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the platform device, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device, as shown in fig. 17, and the network device includes: a processor 171 and a transceiver 172;

the processor 171 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 172, time-sensitive network TSN requirement information sent by a platform device;

determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

sending the TSN system parameters to a packet control function PCF device via the transceiver 172;

receiving, by the transceiver 172, a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF device according to the TSN system parameter;

the TSN SLA parameters are sent to an industry network SLA device via the transceiver 172.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the TSN (time sensitive network) demand information sent by the platform equipment; determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information; sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment; receiving TSN service level agreement SLA parameters fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameters; sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the network device, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a packet control function PCF device, as shown in fig. 18, and the network device includes: a processor 181 and a transceiver 182;

the processor 181 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 182, TSN system parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

the TSN SLA parameters are fed back to the TSN AF device via the transceiver 182.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives TSN system parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters; feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and industry network integral SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the industry network SLAs, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be favorable for meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the determining, according to the TSN system parameter, a SLA parameter of a TSN service level agreement includes: and determining the TSN SLA parameters according to the second corresponding relation between the TSN system parameters and the TSN SLA parameters and the TSN system parameters.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the PCF device side are all applicable to the embodiments of the network device, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is an industry network service level agreement SLA device, as shown in fig. 19, and the network device includes: a processor 191 and a transceiver 192;

the processor 192 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 192, SLA requirement information sent by a platform device and receive TSN SLA parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

sending the pending SLA parameters to a communication service management function CSMF device via the transceiver 192.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives SLA requirement information sent by platform equipment and TSN SLA parameters sent by time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment; determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information; obtaining SLA parameters to be processed according to the TSN SLA parameters and the industry network SLA parameters; sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and industry network integral SLAs (corresponding to the industry network SLA parameters) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the industry network SLAs, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be favorable for meeting the strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the SLA device side in the industry are all applicable to the embodiment of the network device, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a CSMF device having a communication service management function, as shown in fig. 20, and the network device includes: a processor 201 and a transceiver 202;

the processor 201 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 202, a to-be-processed SLA parameter sent by an industry network service level agreement SLA device;

sending, by the transceiver 202, the network slice instance request to a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) device;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives the SLA parameters to be processed sent by the industry network service level agreement SLA equipment; obtaining a network slice instance request according to the SLA parameters to be processed; sending the network slice instance request to a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) device; wherein, the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the CSMF device side with the communication service management function are all applicable to the embodiment of the network device, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device is a NSMF device with network slice management function, as shown in fig. 21, and the network device includes: a processor 211 and a transceiver 212;

the processor 211 is configured to receive, through the transceiver 212, a network slice instance request sent by a CSMF device, where the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

sending the SLA index information of the at least two network domains to corresponding network domain devices through the transceiver 212;

The network equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention receives a network slice instance request sent by CSMF equipment with a communication service management function, wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information; obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information; the SLA index information of the at least two network domains is respectively sent to corresponding network domain equipment; wherein the at least two domains include: a core network slice subnet management function CN-NSSMF domain, a wireless network slice subnet management function AN-NSSMF domain and a bearer network slice subnet management function TN-NSSMF domain; the system can support and realize the decomposition of the industry customer requirements into TSN requirement information and SLA requirement information of an industry network, and support the subsequent acquisition of TSN SLAs and the whole SLAs of the industry network (corresponding to the SLA parameters of the industry network) according to the requirements, so as to cover an application system (corresponding to the TSN) and a communication network (corresponding to the industry network), perform end-to-end index management of the SLAs of the industry network, realize end-to-end guarantee of the industry customer requirements, and be beneficial to the satisfaction of strict requirements of the industry customers with high business requirements; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art cannot realize the deterministic management of end-to-end indexes is well solved.

In addition, the method can further support the follow-up further decomposition of the target industry network overall SLA (corresponding to the SLA parameters to be processed) obtained according to the TSN SLA and the industry network overall SLA into a core network SLA, a bearer network SLA and a wireless network SLA; therefore, the industry client requirements can be accurately distributed to corresponding execution domains, the pertinence of SLA management is enhanced, and the problem that the client requirements cannot be solved in a targeted manner in the prior art is solved; the problem that the information processing scheme aiming at SLA decomposition and management in the prior art is poor in pertinence is solved well.

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method on the NSMF device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the network device, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

The embodiment of the invention also provides network equipment, which comprises a memory, a processor and a program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor; when the processor executes the program, the information processing method of the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side is realized; or,

the processor implements the information processing method of the packet control function PCF device side when executing the program; or,

the processor realizes the information processing method of the industry network service level agreement SLA equipment side when executing the program; or,

the processor realizes the information processing method of the CSMF equipment side with the communication service management function when executing the program; or,

The implementation embodiments of the information processing method of the time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device side, the packet control function PCF device side, the industry network service level agreement SLA device side, the communication service management function CSMF device side, or the network slice management function NSMF device side are all applicable to the embodiments of the network device, and can achieve the same technical effect.

when the program is executed by a processor, the program realizes the steps in the information processing method of the industry network service level agreement SLA equipment side; or,

The implementation examples of the information processing method of the platform device side, the time sensitive network application function TSN AF device side, the packet control function PCF device side, the industry network service level agreement SLA device side, the communication service management function CSMF device side, or the network slice management function NSMF device side are all applicable to the embodiment of the readable storage medium, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

It should be noted that many of the functional units described in this specification have been referred to as modules, in order to more particularly emphasize their implementation independence.

In embodiments of the present invention, modules may be implemented in software for execution by various types of processors. An identified module of executable code may, for instance, comprise one or more physical or logical blocks of computer instructions which may, for instance, be constructed as an object, procedure, or function. Nevertheless, the executables of an identified module need not be physically located together, but may comprise disparate instructions stored in different bits which, when joined logically together, comprise the module and achieve the stated purpose for the module.

Indeed, a module of executable code may be a single instruction, or many instructions, and may even be distributed over several different code segments, among different programs, and across several memory devices. Similarly, operational data may be identified within modules, and may be embodied in any suitable form and organized within any suitable type of data structure. The operational data may be collected as a single data set, or may be distributed over different locations including over different storage devices, and may exist, at least partially, merely as electronic signals on a system or network.

When a module can be implemented by software, considering the level of hardware technology, a module implemented in software may build a corresponding hardware circuit to implement corresponding functions, without considering the cost, and the hardware circuit may include a conventional Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuit or a gate array and an existing semiconductor such as a logic chip, a transistor, or other discrete components. A module may also be implemented in programmable hardware devices such as field programmable gate arrays, programmable array logic, programmable logic devices or the like.

While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the principles of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

Claims

1. An information processing method applied to a platform device, comprising:

receiving demand information of a first service sent by a client;

sending the TSN requirement information to time-sensitive network application function TSN AF equipment;

sending the SLA requirement information to industry network SLA equipment;

2. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining time-sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service includes:

3. An information processing method is applied to a time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) device, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving time sensitive network TSN demand information sent by platform equipment;

determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment;

receiving TSN service level agreement SLA parameters fed back by the PCF equipment according to the TSN system parameters;

and sending the TSN SLA parameters to industry network SLA equipment.

4. The information processing method according to claim 3, wherein the determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN requirement information comprises:

5. An information processing method applied to PCF equipment is characterized by comprising the following steps:

and feeding back the TSN SLA parameters to the TSN AF equipment.

6. The information processing method according to claim 5, wherein said determining TSN Service Level Agreement (SLA) parameters according to the TSN system parameters comprises:

7. An information processing method applied to industry network service level agreement SLA equipment is characterized by comprising the following steps:

and sending the SLA parameters to be processed to CSMF equipment with a communication service management function.

8. The information processing method according to claim 7, wherein determining industry network SLA parameters according to the SLA requirement information comprises:

9. An information processing method applied to a CSMF (communication service management function) device is characterized by comprising the following steps:

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

10. An information processing method is applied to a network slice management function NSMF device, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

11. An information processing apparatus applied to a platform device, comprising:

the first processing module is used for obtaining time-sensitive network TSN (time sensitive network) demand information and SLA (service level agreement) demand information of an industry network according to the demand information of the first service;

the first sending module is used for sending the TSN demand information to time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) equipment;

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein obtaining time-sensitive network TSN requirement information and industry network SLA requirement information according to the requirement information of the first service includes:

13. An information processing apparatus applied to a time-sensitive network application function (TSN AF) device, comprising:

a third receiving module, configured to receive a TSN service level agreement SLA parameter fed back by the PCF apparatus according to the TSN system parameter;

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN requirement information comprises:

15. An information processing apparatus applied to a Packet Control Function (PCF) device, comprising:

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive TSN system parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device;

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said determining TSN service level agreement SLA parameters according to the TSN system parameters comprises:

17. An information processing apparatus applied to an industry network Service Level Agreement (SLA) device, comprising:

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said determining an industry network SLA parameter according to the SLA requirement information comprises:

19. An information processing apparatus applied to a Communication Service Management Function (CSMF) device, comprising:

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

20. An information processing apparatus applied to a network slice management function NSMF device, comprising:

a seventh receiving module, configured to receive a network slice instance request sent by a CSMF device with a communication service management function, where the network slice instance request carries SLA index information;

the fourth processing module is used for obtaining SLA index information of at least two network domains according to the SLA index information;

a seventh sending module, configured to send the SLA index information of the at least two domains to corresponding domain devices, respectively;

21. A stage apparatus, comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

according to the demand information of the first service, obtaining time sensitive network TSN demand information and SLA demand information of an industry network;

sending the TSN requirement information to a time sensitive network application function (TSN AF) device through the transceiver;

22. A network device, the network device being a time-sensitive network application function, TSN AF, device, comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

determining TSN system parameters according to the TSN demand information;

sending the TSN system parameters to PCF equipment through the transceiver;

23. A network device, the network device being a packet control function, PCF, device comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

the processor is used for receiving TSN system parameters sent by a time-sensitive network application function TSN AF device through the transceiver;

24. A network device, the network device being an industry network Service Level Agreement (SLA) device, comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

25. A network device that is a communication service management function, CSMF, device, comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

wherein the network slice instance request carries SLA index information.

26. A network device, which is a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) device, comprising: a processor and a transceiver;

transmitting the SLA index information of the at least two network domains to corresponding network domain equipment through the transceiver respectively;

27. A platform device comprising a memory, a processor, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; characterized in that the processor implements the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 2 when executing the program.

28. A network device comprising a memory, a processor, and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor; characterized in that the processor implements the information processing method according to any one of claims 3 to 4 when executing the program; or,

the processor realizes the information processing method according to any one of claims 5 to 6 when executing the program; or,

the processor implementing the information processing method according to any one of claims 7 to 8 when executing the program; or,

the processor implementing the information processing method according to claim 9 when executing the program; or,

the processor realizes the information processing method according to claim 10 when executing the program.

29. A readable storage medium on which a program is stored, characterized in that the program realizes the steps in the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 2 when executed by a processor; or,

the program implementing the steps in the information processing method according to any one of claims 3 to 4 when executed by a processor; or,

the program implementing the steps in the information processing method according to any one of claims 5 to 6 when executed by a processor; or,

the program implementing the steps in the information processing method according to any one of claims 7 to 8 when executed by a processor; or,

the program implementing the steps in the information processing method according to claim 9 when executed by a processor; or,

the program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps in the information processing method as claimed in claim 10.