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Granted Patent B2
US 11,924,024 · App. 17/912,188 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Switching method and apparatus, device, and storage medium

Inventors: Xueyan Song (Guangdong, CN); Yong Chen (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
H04L41/0663H04L41/0668H04L45/28
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Patent No.
US 11,924,024
App. No.
17/912,188
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a switching method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: executing a protection switching operation in response to detecting a switching trigger condition, synchronizing, by a local first-type communication node, protection group switching related state information to a second-type communication node, and synchronously forwarding, by the second-type communication node, the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to an opposite first-type communication node.

Claims (44)

1. A switching method, applied to a local first-type communication node and comprising:

executing a protection switching operation in response to detecting a switching trigger condition; and

synchronizing protection group switching related state information to a second-type communication node, and enabling the second-type communication node to synchronously forward the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to an opposite first-type communication node;

wherein before the executing the protection switching operation in response to detecting the switching trigger condition, the method further comprises:

configuring protection group members and protection group information of each of the protection group members, wherein the protection group members comprise the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node; wherein

the protection group information of the local first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration; and

the protection group information of the opposite first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration.

2. The method of claim 1 , before executing the protection switching operation in response to detecting the switching trigger condition, further comprising:

acquiring, by the local first-type communication node, current state data of the opposite first-type communication node in the protection group members through the second-type communication node.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the switching trigger condition comprises one of the following: an external link failure between a first-type communication node and the second-type communication node or a first-type communication node failure, wherein the first-type communication node comprises the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the local first-type communication node is the master first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node is the standby first-type communication node, or the local first-type communication node is the standby first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node is the master first-type communication node.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein in a case where the heartbeat line detection situation between the master first-type communication node and the standby first-type communication node is available, the master first-type communication node and the standby first-type communication node are determined according to the priority configuration situation and the current state data.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the current state data comprises one of the following: a node physical state or a node port state; and

the priority configuration situation comprises a priority sequence between the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the master first-type communication node and the standby first-type communication node are nodes of different network domains.

8. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first-type communication node and the second-type communication node are in a same network domain, and are multi-hop reachable the first-type communication node reaches the second-type communication node through multiple hops.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first-type communication node is a network function node control plane, and the second-type communication node is a network function node user plane.

10. A switching method, applied to a second-type communication node and comprising:

acquiring protection group switching related state information of a local first-type communication node and protection group switching related state information of an opposite first-type communication node; and

synchronizing the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to the opposite first-type communication node;

wherein protection group members and protection group information of each of the protection group members are configured by the first-type communication node;

wherein the protection group members comprise the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node; wherein

the protection group information of the local first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration; and

the protection group information of the opposite first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

storing the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node and the protection group switching related state information of the opposite first-type communication node in a local database.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein synchronizing the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to the opposite first-type communication node comprises:

in response to acquiring a switching trigger condition, synchronizing the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to the opposite first-type communication node.

13. A switching apparatus, applied to a local first-type communication node and comprising: a memory and at least one processor;

wherein the memory is configured to store at least one program; and the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, enables the at least one processor to implement a switching method, wherein the switching method comprises:

executing a protection switching operation in response to detecting a switching trigger condition; and

synchronizing protection group switching related state information to a second-type communication node, and enabling the second-type communication node to synchronously forward the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to an opposite first-type communication node;

wherein before the executing the protection switching operation in response to detecting the switching trigger condition, the method further comprises:

configuring protection group members and protection group information of each of the protection group members, wherein the protection group members comprise the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node; wherein

the protection group information of the local first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration; and

the protection group information of the opposite first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration.

14. A communication node, comprising a memory and at least one processor; wherein

the memory is configured to store at least one program; and

the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, enables the at least one processor to implement the method of claim 1 .

15. A non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the method of claim 1 .

16. The switching apparatus of claim 13 , before executing the protection switching operation in response to detecting the switching trigger condition, further comprising:

acquiring, by the local first-type communication node, current state data of the opposite first-type communication node in the protection group members through the second-type communication node.

17. The switching apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the switching trigger condition comprises one of the following: an external link failure between a first-type communication node and the second-type communication node or a first-type communication node failure, wherein the first-type communication node comprises the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node.

18. The switching apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the local first-type communication node is the master first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node is the standby first-type communication node, or the local first-type communication node is the standby first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node is the master first-type communication node.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2022
From: SONG, XUEYAN; CHEN, YONG
To: ZTE CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010182757.2 · Mar 16, 2020 · national
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