Detect, at a cable/fiber broadband network termination unit of a cable/fiber broadband multi-service operator, an interruption in service to a cable/fiber broadband network customer unit—small cell pair. Responsive to detecting the interruption, the termination unit advises a charging server of the operator of the interruption in service, a corresponding identifier of the customer unit—small cell pair, and a corresponding account identifier. Responsive to termination unit advising the charging server, the charging server advises a backend server of an associated cellular network of a customer identifier corresponding to the account identifier. Responsive to the charging server advising the backend server, the backend server advises a policy control function of the associated cellular network to modify network parameters of the associated cellular network to compensate for the interruption in service.

Detect, at a cable/fiber broadband network termination unit of a cable/fiber broadband multi-service operator, an interruption in service to a cable/fiber broadband network customer unit—small cell pair. Responsive to detecting the interruption, the termination unit advises a charging server of the operator of the interruption in service, a corresponding identifier of the customer unit—small cell pair, and a corresponding account identifier. Responsive to termination unit advising the charging server, the charging server advises a backend server of an associated cellular network of a customer identifier corresponding to the account identifier. Responsive to the charging server advising the backend server, the backend server advises a policy control function of the associated cellular network to modify network parameters of the associated cellular network to compensate for the interruption in service.

In one aspect, a device may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to determine an insufficiency related to a system in a first instance based on input from an end user. The instructions may also be executable to analyze first data related to the first instance and, based on the analysis, determine that the insufficiency has or will occur again based on second data also related to the system but that corresponds to a second instance occurring after the first instance. The instructions may then be executable to proactively address the insufficiency based on determination that the insufficiency has or will occur again. In some examples, the determination that the insufficiency has/will occur again may be performed using an artificial neural network trained using the first data to infer whether the insufficiency has or will occur again.

The present disclosure is generally related to edge computing technologies (ECTs), communications networking, network slicing, and in particular, to techniques and technologies for providing flow-specific network slices. In particular, the present disclosure describes mechanisms that expand existing end-to-end architectures in order to include quality of service and monitoring mechanisms that connect network slicing technologies with infrastructure and/or network data center quality of service provider domains. The described mechanisms provide data center bridging to enable network, edge computing, and cloud computing domains.

The present disclosure is generally related to edge computing technologies (ECTs), communications networking, network slicing, and in particular, to techniques and technologies for providing flow-specific network slices. In particular, the present disclosure describes mechanisms that expand existing end-to-end architectures in order to include quality of service and monitoring mechanisms that connect network slicing technologies with infrastructure and/or network data center quality of service provider domains. The described mechanisms provide data center bridging to enable network, edge computing, and cloud computing domains.

Described are examples for providing service level monitoring for a network hosting applications as a cloud service. A service level monitoring device may receive end-to-end measurements of service usage collected at user devices for a plurality of applications hosted as a cloud services. The service level monitoring device may determine degraded applications of the plurality of applications based on anomalies in the measurements. The service level monitoring device may determine a service level metric based on an aggregation of the degraded applications. In some examples, the service level monitoring device may detect a network outage affecting the service.

The autonomous cloud design system may determine a design that may appropriately mix emerging technologies and operations to provide a versatile and cost-effective or efficient solution for a given cloud site.

The disclosure relates to a method, executed by an NFV-MANO, for providing a requested Service Availability Level (SAL) for a Network Service (NS). The method comprises at each of a plurality of layers of the NFV-MANO, mapping the requested SAL to a SAL that needs to be provided by a lower layer of the NFV-MANO. The method comprises propagating the mapped requested SAL through interfaces between layers of the NFV-MANO, from an NFVO towards a VIM. The method comprises receiving an estimated SAL′ for the NS based on virtual resources (VR) allocated by the VIM for satisfying the requested SAL. The method comprises, upon determining that the estimated SAL′ does not satisfy the requested SAL, taking actions to meet the requested SAL, or upon determining that the estimated SAL′ satisfies the requested SAL taking no further actions.

The disclosure relates to a method, executed by an NFV-MANO, for providing a requested Service Availability Level (SAL) for a Network Service (NS). The method comprises at each of a plurality of layers of the NFV-MANO, mapping the requested SAL to a SAL that needs to be provided by a lower layer of the NFV-MANO. The method comprises propagating the mapped requested SAL through interfaces between layers of the NFV-MANO, from an NFVO towards a VIM. The method comprises receiving an estimated SAL′ for the NS based on virtual resources (VR) allocated by the VIM for satisfying the requested SAL. The method comprises, upon determining that the estimated SAL′ does not satisfy the requested SAL, taking actions to meet the requested SAL, or upon determining that the estimated SAL′ satisfies the requested SAL taking no further actions.

A policy adjustment system changes a quality of service attribute for a user device without affecting the policy applied to the user device. The policy adjustment system applies a policy to a plurality of user devices, the policy defining one or more quality of service attributes. The policy adjustment system receives an indication that a quality of service attribute should be changed for a user device. The policy adjustment system changes the quality of service attribute for the user device without affecting the quality of service attributes for the other user devices for which the policy is applied.