Methods for configuring a monitoring device to communicate with a service server are provided. The method includes the monitoring device sending a message including a monitoring device identifier used by a control server to identify the service server associated with the monitoring device, receiving one or more service server addresses associated with the identified service sever from the control server, and establishing a service connection between the monitoring device and the identified service server using the one or more addresses received from the control server. A control server adapted to configure a monitoring device in a monitoring system and a method for configuring the control server are also provided.

A communication control system to obtain required reliability for an entire network is provided. The communication control system includes: a means for obtaining, based on a load status of a control device that controls nodes included in a network and receives a content of a control signal sent and received between the nodes as a status notification signal, a capability for processing the status notification signal; a means for determining, based on network status information related to communication on the network, area segments each including an arbitrarily number of the nodes; and a means for calculating, based on the capability, a sending interval of the status notification signal of the node for each of the area segments, and sending the sending interval to the node included in the corresponding area segment.

Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for using deceptions to detect network scans. In various implementations, a network device, configured as a decoy network device can be configured to determine a particular network address. The network device can determine that the particular network address is unassigned. The network device can configure itself with the particular network address, wherein the network device uses the particular network address to monitor network activity for a network scan. The network device can receive a packet addressed to the particular network address. The network device can determine that received packet is associated with a scan of the network, including associating the received packet with other packets in the monitored network activity. The network device can configure one or more security settings for the network when the received packet is determined to be associated with a scan of the network.

Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured.

A method of controlling wireless communication channels used in a plurality of wireless communication networks, the method includes performing, by a first wireless communication network, wireless communication using a first wireless channel, performing, by a second wireless communication network, wireless communication using of the first wireless channel, identifying a first value indicating a number of the wireless communication networks each of which performs wireless communication using the first wireless channel interfering with the wireless communication in the first wireless communication network, identifying a second value indicating a number of the wireless communication networks each of which performs wireless communication using the first wireless channel interfering with the wireless communication in the second wireless communication network, and switching, when the first value is greater than the second value the first wireless channel used by the first wireless communication network to a second wireless channel.

A system and method for determining network performance information. The system includes an interface configured to communicate between customer premise equipment (CPE) and a communications device. The system also includes one or more processing units in communication with the interface. The one or more processing units are configured to generate packets communicated by the interface between the CPE and the communications device to determine the network performance information.

A method performed by a network device along a data path for real-time network-wide link latency monitoring. The method includes receiving a packet; incrementing a packet counter; determining whether the packet counter is at least equal to a silent period value (M) when a sampling cycle flag is not set; determining whether the packet includes an existing in-band network telemetry (INT) header when the packet counter is at least equal to the silent period value (M); inserting INT data into the existing INT header of the packet and setting the sampling cycle flag when the packet includes the existing INT header; and forwarding the packet along a data path towards a destination device.

An example embodiment may involve communicating with a server to separately access first and second records of sessions between the server and computing devices of a network, the first record including a first set of fields not present in the second record and the second record includes a second set of fields not present in the first record; identifying a common field present the first and second records; correlating information across the first and second records using the common field; using a set of license misuse criteria to identify, from the correlated information, (i) a set of the sessions that meets the set of criteria and (ii) a network address of a target device involved in the set of sessions; identifying the target device using the network address; and storing an indication identifying the target device as a potential source of misuse of licensed software executable on the server.

A method for reducing transmission of telemetry packets includes receiving, at a network controller, telemetry packets from network nodes in a communication pathway of data packets being transmitted from a sending host to a receiving host and determining from the telemetry packets a number of network nodes in the communication pathway. The method includes setting a network node threshold value equal to the determined number of network nodes in the communication pathway, and transmitting, from the network controller, the network node threshold value to each network node in the communication pathway.

A method of utilizing the same hardware network interface card (NIC) in a gateway of a datacenter to communicate datacenter tenant packet traffic and packet traffic for a set of applications that execute in the user space of the gateway and utilize a network stack in the kernel space of the gateway. The method sends and receives packets for the datacenter tenant packet traffic through a packet datapath in the user space. The method sends incoming packets from the NIC to the set of applications through the datapath in the user space, a user-kernel transport driver connecting the kernel network stack to the datapath in the user space, and the kernel network stack. The method receives outgoing packets at the NIC from the set of applications through the kernel network stack, the user-kernel transport driver, and the data path in the user space.