Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. In the method, a control plane (CP) sends a first message to a user plane steering function (USF). The first message includes end user information, and indicates the USF to schedule an end user based on the end user information. Then, the CP determines, based on an identifier of a target UP carried in a first request message sent by the USF, to schedule the end user to the target UP. Thus, a scheduling policy of the end user is determined via the USF. The CP further processes a connection between the end user and the target UP based on the identifier of the target UP.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. In the method, a control plane (CP) sends a first message to a user plane steering function (USF). The first message includes end user information, and indicates the USF to schedule an end user based on the end user information. Then, the CP determines, based on an identifier of a target UP carried in a first request message sent by the USF, to schedule the end user to the target UP. Thus, a scheduling policy of the end user is determined via the USF. The CP further processes a connection between the end user and the target UP based on the identifier of the target UP.

A method for delivering quality of service to a moving user equipment in a computer network, the method including: identifying a moving user equipment on the computer network; predicting a path of travel for the user equipment; determining a load of a cell in the path of travel; determining a traffic action response based on the load of the cell; and providing the traffic action. A system for delivering quality of service to a moving user equipment in a computer network, the system including: a location module configured to identify a moving user equipment on the computer network; an analysis module configured to predict a path of travel for the user equipment; a load module configured to determine a load of a cell in the path of travel; and a traffic action module configured to determine a traffic action response based on the load of the cell and provide for the traffic action.

In general, techniques are described for automatic intent provisioning and management in computer networks. A device comprising a processor, a memory, and an interface may perform the techniques. The processor may obtain a policy that includes high-level configuration data defining a service to be deployed within a network, the high-level configuration data including resource selector criteria that identifies one or more criteria for selecting a resource to support the service from a plurality of potential resources. The processor may also determine, based on the resource selector criteria, the resource to support the service from the plurality of potential resources, and translate the high-level configuration data to low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource. The memory may store the low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource. The interface may enable configuration, when provisioning the service, the determined resource using the low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource.

In general, techniques are described for automatic intent provisioning and management in computer networks. A device comprising a processor, a memory, and an interface may perform the techniques. The processor may obtain a policy that includes high-level configuration data defining a service to be deployed within a network, the high-level configuration data including resource selector criteria that identifies one or more criteria for selecting a resource to support the service from a plurality of potential resources. The processor may also determine, based on the resource selector criteria, the resource to support the service from the plurality of potential resources, and translate the high-level configuration data to low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource. The memory may store the low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource. The interface may enable configuration, when provisioning the service, the determined resource using the low-level configuration data specific to the determined resource.

The present application relates to traffic routing for overlay paths in a public cloud network. A path orchestrator receives a configuration of a set of overlay paths for a wide area network virtualization from a client, each overlay path including virtual routing nodes associated with respective geographic regions and at least one policy for a link between the virtual routing nodes. The path orchestrator is configured to instantiate a plurality of virtual routers on computing resources of the public cloud network located within the respective geographic regions based on the configuration, each virtual router configured to route traffic according to the policy for each link associated with the virtual routing node corresponding to the virtual router. The path orchestrator is configured to scale the plurality of virtual routers based on traffic for the client on the set of overlay paths.

A method for determining quality of service (QoS) description information includes receiving at least one piece of QoS description information of a service. Each piece of the at least one piece of QoS description information includes parameter type information and a parameter requirement. The method also includes sending to a second core network element or an application function network element corresponding to the service, parameter type information and a parameter requirement in the at least one piece of QoS description information. The method further includes receiving from the second core network element or the application function network element, feedback information of the parameter type information and the parameter requirement. The method additionally includes determining at least one piece of target QoS description information in the at least one piece of QoS description information based on the feedback information.

Techniques are described herein for generating network topologies based on models, and deploying the network topologies across hybrid clouds and other computing environments that include multiple workload resource domains. A topology deployment system may receive data representing a logical topology model, and may generate a network topology for deployment based on the logical model. The network topology may include various services and/or other resources provided by different tenants in the computing environment, and tenant may be associated with different set of resources and deployment constraints. The topology deployment system may determine and generate the network topology to use the various resources and comply with various deployment constraints of the different tenants providing the services, and the tenants consuming the network topology.

Dynamic wireless network throughput adjustment is provided herein. A method can include determining, by a system comprising a processor, a sector of a communication network for which an amount of congestion present in the sector is greater than a congestion threshold; selecting, by the system from among respective network equipment operating in the sector, target network equipment for throughput adjustment based on equipment performance metrics respectively associated with the respective network equipment; and facilitating, by the system, adjusting a throughput of the target network equipment by an adjustment amount determined based on target equipment performance metrics, of the equipment performance metrics, associated with the target network equipment.

A system and method for providing multi-services within a communication network according to various exemplary embodiments can include storing, in a database of a computer, user-defined sets of rules and instructions for providing multi-services to end user devices connected to a communication network comprising a Hybrid Fiber-Wireless (HFW) network having policy management capabilities. The system and method can receive, at one or more processors, the user-defined sets of rules and instructions from a plurality of end users via a plurality of end user devices. The system and method can configure a virtual network for each end user within the communication network using the policy management capabilities based on the user-defined sets of rules and instructions provided by each end user. The user-defined sets of rules and instructions define provisioning and delivery of resources and services provided by the communication network to the end user.