18333773. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE ASSURANCE CONFLICT DISCOVERABILITY AND RESOLUTION (Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.)
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE ASSURANCE CONFLICT DISCOVERABILITY AND RESOLUTION
Organization Name
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor(s)
Deepak Majjiga of Irving TX (US)
Kristen Sydney Young of Mine Hill NJ (US)
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE ASSURANCE CONFLICT DISCOVERABILITY AND RESOLUTION
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18333773 titled 'SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE ASSURANCE CONFLICT DISCOVERABILITY AND RESOLUTION
Original Abstract Submitted
Systems and methods enable static analysis of Service Assurance Policies (SAPs) for conflict detection in design time and enable conflict resolution in runtime. Conflicts degrade network slice performance and can, in some cases, disable a network. According to one implementation, a network device stores, for a Service Design and Creation (SDC) function, a Unified Network Slice Assurance Template (UNSAT) with multiple SAPs for a network slice configuration. The UNSAT includes a functional block identifying a first SAP associated with a functional category of a network function, and a resource block identifying a second SAP associated with a resource category of network infrastructure. The network device performs, based on the multiple SAPs, design time conflict identification that detects when actions from the multiple SAPs that are associated with a same network function conflict with each other and provides a notification when the design time conflict identification identifies a conflict.
