Dynamic resource allocation for sensor devices on a cellular network
A method and associated systems for on-demand cellular-network bandwidth allocation in response to continuously changing populations of sensor devices. A sensor device adds itself to or deletes itself from a cluster of sensors. A physical controller that manages the cluster detects this change, identifies a resulting change in the cluster's bandwidth requirements, and stores this information in a local database. When such a sensor-population change satisfies a triggering condition, the controller requests that a network-management component of the cellular network adjust the controller's bandwidth allocation. The network-management component aggregates this and similar requests from all connected controllers in a global database, and when controller bandwidth requirements satisfy a second triggering condition, the component, using a standard API, asks the network-management component to reprovision the component's virtual bandwidth allocation. The component then distributes the adjusted bandwidth among its sensor-cluster controllers, which in turn allocate their adjusted bandwidths among their sensor devices.
1. A resource-allocation system, of a cellular network, comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for dynamic resource allocation, the method comprising:
the resource-allocation system receiving through the cellular network, from a sensor device, a request to adjust a quantity of virtualized resources allocated to the sensor device, where the resource-allocation system is implemented as a network-management component of the cellular network;
the resource-allocation system determining that the sensor device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the network-management component;
the resource-allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the network-management component an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the sensor device;
the resource-allocation system confirming that additional virtualized resources have been provisioned by a cloud-management service associated with the cellular network, where the additional virtual resources are sufficient to satisfy the request; and
the resource-allocation system adjusting the amount of each virtualized resource allocated to the sensor device, as a function of the determining.
2. The resource-allocation system of claim 1 , where the amount of additional resource requested by the sensor device is a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device through the cellular network, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
3. The resource-allocation system of claim 2 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the sensor device.
4. The resource-allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the sensor device generates its resource request.
5. The resource-allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device at the time that the sensor device generates the resource request.
6. The resource-allocation system of claim 2 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources requested by all sensor devices connected to the cellular network.
7. The resource-allocation system of claim 1 , where the requesting the additional quantity of virtualized resource from the network-management component is performed in response to an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the sensor device's resource request.
8. A method for dynamic resource allocation, comprising:
a resource-allocation system of a cellular network receiving through the cellular network, from a sensor device, a request to adjust a quantity of virtualized resources allocated to the sensor device, where the resource-allocation system is implemented as a network-management component of the cellular network;
the resource-allocation system determining that the sensor device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the network-management component;
the resource-allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the network-management component an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the sensor device;
the resource-allocation system confirming that additional virtualized resources have been provisioned by a cloud-management service associated with the cellular network, where the additional virtual resources are sufficient to satisfy the request; and
the resource-allocation system adjusting the amount of each virtualized resource allocated to the sensor device, as a function of the determining.
9. The method of claim 8 , where the amount of additional resource requested by the sensor device is a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device through the cellular network, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
10. The method of claim 9 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the sensor device.
11. The method of claim 9 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the sensor device generates its resource request.
12. The method of claim 9 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device at the time that the sensor device generates the resource request.
13. The method of claim 8 , where the requesting the additional quantity of virtualized resource from the network-management component is performed in response to an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the sensor device's resource request.
14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer-readable program code in the computer system, where the computer-readable program code in combination with the computer system is configured to implement the receiving, the determining, the requesting, the confirming, and the adjusting.
15. A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, the program code configured to be executed by a resource-allocation system, of a cellular network, comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for dynamic resource allocation, comprising:
a resource-allocation system of the cellular network receiving through a cellular network, from a sensor device, a request to adjust a quantity of virtualized resources allocated to the sensor device, where the resource-allocation system is implemented as a network-management component of the cellular network;
the resource-allocation system determining that the sensor device's resource request satisfies a condition necessary to trigger sending a service request to the network-management component;
the resource-allocation system, in response to the determining, requesting from the network-management component an adjustment of a current allocation of virtualized resources to the sensor device;
the resource-allocation system confirming that additional virtualized resources have been provisioned by a cloud-management service associated with the cellular network, where the additional virtual resources are sufficient to satisfy the request; and
the resource-allocation system adjusting the amount of each virtualized resource allocated to the sensor device, as a function of the determining.
16. The computer program product of claim 15 , where the amount of additional resource requested by the sensor device is a function of a change in a number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device through the cellular network, where the total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device continuously changes in response to user requirements.
17. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the change in the number of dynamic virtualized peripheral component devices is caused by at least one dynamic virtualized peripheral component's autonomous connection of itself to the sensor device.
18. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of an aggregate amount of virtualized resources required by the connected dynamic virtualized peripheral components at the time that the sensor device generates its resource request.
19. The computer program product of claim 16 , where the quantity of the virtualized resource requested from the network-management component is determined as a function of a change in a total number of dynamic virtualized peripheral components connected to the sensor device at the time that the sensor device generates the resource request.
20. The computer program product of claim 15 , where the requesting the additional quantity of virtualized resource from the network-management component is performed in response to an occurrence of a predetermined triggering event related to the sensor device's resource request.