Method and apparatus for analyzing mobile services delivery

摘要

A method and apparatus for analyzing mobile services delivery to provide a coherent, path-based awareness of the mobile services and the corresponding underlying transport elements supporting each service or path. In various embodiments, configuration information, status information and connections information associated with elements within a network such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network are used to help infer or determine the connections between network elements to be managed.

主权项

1. A method for managing a network comprising a plurality of network elements, the method comprising:
using at least one processor for:
retrieving, for at least a portion of the network elements to be managed within the network, respective network element information comprising configuration information, status information and connections information;determining, using the retrieved network element information, network element connections by which data is communicated between the network elements to be managed;storing, in a computer readable storage medium, data representing at least a portion of the retrieved network element information and the determined network element connections;identifying, for each of a plurality of mobile services, those network elements and communications links therebetween within the network that are necessary to support the mobile service, the necessary network elements including a network element configured to communicate with User Equipment (UE) using the respective mobile service, a network element configured to communicate with a source of the respective mobile service, and any intermediate network elements; andstoring, in a computer readable storage medium, data representing correlations of mobile services to respective identified necessary network elements and communications links therebetween.