An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling a plurality of devices by the electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of devices, determining a correlation between at least two devices among the plurality of devices on the basis of the received data, determining a position of a first device on the basis of the correlation, grouping the first device and another device positioned in the vicinity of the first device into one group, and automatically creating group information, and controlling the devices included in the group. The name of the first device may be automatically set using the group information.

Methods and systems for autonomous computing comprising processing historical data to analyze a past performance, collecting data from a plurality of connected devices over a network, synchronizing the collected data from the plurality of connected devices with the processed historical data. Based on the synchronized data, methods and systems disclosed include detecting an alert (error/fault) condition in one or more of the plurality of connected devices, based on the detected alert condition, triggering the delivery of the detected alert condition to an automated network operations center (NOC), and matching the determined alert condition to a historical alert condition by the network operations center. Based on the matching, methods and systems include determining a corrective action, and based on the determined corrective action, assigning a virtual self-healing module from a plurality of virtual self-healing modules. Finally, a trigger to performance of the determined corrective action by the assigned virtual self-healing module is initiated.

The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for establishing a link between virtualized network functions. The method includes obtaining an internet protocol (IP) address of a connection point (CP) of a first virtualized network function (VNF) and identification information of the CP. The method also includes determining identification information of a second VNF corresponding to the identification information of the CP of the first VNF, sending the IP address of the CP of the first VNF and the identification information of the CP to the second VNF corresponding to the identification information of the second VNF. Additionally, the method includes starting a link connection establishment process between a CP of the second VNF and the CP of the first VNF.

Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for network strengthening, such as by detecting issues with one or more network components and reconfiguring one or more upstream or downstream network components to preempt issues with the one or more upstream or downstream network components, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a tool (e.g., strengthening agent) that implements pre-scripted or dynamic hardening of up and downstream dependencies of a network component in response to an issue identified with the network component. In many embodiments, up and downstream components of a network component may be reconfigured while the issue with the network component is being addressed to preempt issues with the up and downstream components.

A method for automatic configuration of a communication network includes: generating a request message, the request message including a communication address associated; transmitting the generated request message as a broadcast message to a plurality of computing devices using a predefined user datagram protocol (UDP) port, the message being broadcast with a predetermined time to live; receiving agreement messages from computing devices transmitted by the respective computing device using the predefined UDP port, each agreement message including a communication address associated with the respective computing device and a specified transmission control protocol (TCP) port; identifying at least one of the one or more agreement messages for establishment of communication; and establishing a communication connection to the computing device associated with each identified agreement message using the specific TCP port.

A device in an evolved packet core (EPC) which includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving from one or more devices residing within a customer premise equipment (CPE) portion of a telecommunications network, sensor data associated with one or more customers and in response to receiving the sensor data, generating a data request for an ecosystem status for the CPE portion of the telecommunications network. The processor further effectuates operations including obtaining customer information for the one or more customers and creating an analytics environment, using the customer information, for the one or more customers. The processor further effectuates operations including performing, within the analytics environment, analytics on the sensor data to determine a state of the CPE portion of the telecommunications network for the one or more customers and in response to performing analytics on the sensor data, optimizing the telecommunications network.

There is provided a method of operating a Service Communication Proxy, SCP, node (608, 1000) in a communication network as a proxy network repository function, NRF, for a first network function, NF, producer node in the communication network. The first NF producer node (602, 1100) is to migrate from a direct communication mode with a first NF consumer node (606) to an indirect communication mode with the first NF consumer node (606) via the SCP node (608, 1000). The SCP node (608, 1000) discovers a NF profile for the first NF producer node (602, 1100), wherein the NF profile for the first NF producer node (602, 1100) is stored by a first network repository function, NRF, node (604) in the communication network, and the NF profile comprises a service address for the first NF producer node (602, 1100); receives a registration request from the first NF producer node (602, 1100), wherein the registration request is a request to register a NF profile for the first NF producer node (602, 1100) at a NRF node (604), wherein the registration request indicates the service address for the first NF producer node (602, 1100); and, in response to the received registration request, sends an update request to the first NRF node (604) to update the NF profile for the first NF producer node (602, 1100) stored by the first NRF node (604) to replace the service address of the first NF producer node (602, 1100) with a first service address of the SCP node (608, 1000) that is associated with the service address of the first NF producer node (602, 1100).

The present disclosure relates to an electronic device that efficiently configures a network for controlling another electronic device, and the electronic device includes a communication interface; an input interface configured to receive a control command for another electronic device; and a controller configured to control another electronic device in a different manner according to whether connected to the same network as another electronic device.

This application provides a network configuration method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, based on a mapping relationship, that a first data node in a first YANG data model corresponds to a second data node in a second YANG data model, where the first data node and the second data node include a same indication operation, and the mapping relationship includes a correspondence between a data node in the first YANG data model and a data node in the second YANG data model; and generating a first packet based on the second data node.

A network monitoring system may receive a configuration request to generate a configuration file associated with collecting feature or debug data associated with a feature, hardware, or software associated with a network device. The network monitoring system may determine a command profile associated with the feature, hardware, or software that identifies a set of commands associated with obtaining the feature or debug data from the network device. The network monitoring system may determine respective parameters of one or more commands of the set of commands. The network monitoring system may determine, based on the respective parameters, respective arguments of the one or more commands. The network monitoring system may generate the configuration file based on the respective arguments and may perform an action associated with the configuration file to permit the configuration file to be used to collect the feature or debug data from the network device.