HTTP-based message broker architectures for communications between a cloud-based controller and network devices of a wireless communications network and related methods
An application of a cloud-based controller forwards a message to a message broker of the cloud-based controller. The message is then transmitted to a network device of a wireless communications network over a persistent hypertext transfer protocol (“HTTP”) connection. Thereafter, an acknowledgment is received in response to transmitting the message at a gRPC proxy for the message broker.
1. A method for a cloud-based controller to communicate with a network device of a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
forwarding a message from an application of the cloud-based controller to a message broker of the cloud-based controller;
translating the message into a translated message suitable for transmission to the network device;
transmitting, from the cloud-based controller, the translated message to the network device over a persistent hypertext transfer protocol (“HTTP”) connection; and
receiving an acknowledgment in response to transmitting the translated message at a gRPC proxy for the message broker, wherein the cloud-based controller comprises the gRPC proxy,
wherein the message broker is configured to receive additional messages from a plurality of different applications of the cloud-based controller, and
wherein the message broker includes a plurality of queues, and the message and the additional messages are routed to queues of the message broker based on destination addresses of the message and the additional messages.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising forwarding the message to the gRPC proxy for the message broker prior to transmitting the translated message to the network device.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message and the additional messages are all routed to the network device through the persistent HTTP connection.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is received at a gRPC agent of the network device.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message broker comprises a fire and forget message broker.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is a first message from the application of the cloud-based controller, the method further comprising:
forwarding a second message from the application of the cloud-based controller to the message broker;
transmitting the second message to the network device over the persistent HTTP connection; and
receiving a second acknowledgment to the second message at an ingress controller of the cloud-based controller, the second acknowledgment including an address of the application.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second acknowledgment is not routed to the application through the message broker.
8. A method of controlling a network device of a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
forwarding messages from a plurality of services of a cloud-based controller to the network device over a single, persistent hypertext transfer protocol (“HTTP”) connection between the cloud-based controller and the network device,
wherein a message broker of the cloud-based controller includes a plurality of queues, and the messages are routed to the queues of the message broker based on destination addresses of the messages, prior to forwarding to the network device.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the messages are forwarded from the services to the message broker of the cloud-based controller prior to being transmitted over the single, persistent HTTP connection between the cloud-based controller and the network device.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the messages are forwarded from the message broker of the cloud-based controller to a gRPC proxy of the cloud-based controller prior to being transmitted over the single, persistent HTTP connection between the cloud-based controller and the network device.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising receiving an acknowledgment in response to a first of the messages at the gRPC proxy of the cloud-based controller.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising forwarding the first of the messages to the gRPC proxy for the message broker prior to transmitting the first of the messages to the network device.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the message broker comprises a fire and forget message broker.