Patent ID: 11929904
Assignee: NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring network performance in a telecommunication network coupled with a plurality of Virtual Machines (VM) arranged in a cluster format, comprising:
receiving a packet from the telecommunication network at a VM smart cluster device;
extracting metadata from the packet to identify subscriber information for the received packet, wherein the metadata includes an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) and an international mobile station equipment identity software version (IMEI-SV) information utilized to generate Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) data;
distributing the packet to one of the plurality of VMs to balance the load amongst the plurality of VMs based upon prescribed load balancing criteria such that each packet received for an identified subscriber is sent to a same VM for performing load balancing on a per subscriber basis; and
generating key performance indicator (KPI) session related data associated with a subscriber in one of the plurality of VMs that receives the distributed packet from the VM smart cluster device.