Content compression in mobile network

• US 10,009,279 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2015
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Inventors: Serrano Solsona, Clara, Tenorio Sanz, Santiago, Ayuso, Cristina M, Dominguez Romero, Francisco Javier
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasia, Redentor
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mak, Peter
• Application Number:
  US14/921,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20160127240A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/322 Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Abstract

There is provided a method of data over a radio interface in a radio communication network based on a protocol layers model, the model comprising an IP layer on which IP packets are handled, wherein before the transmission of a determined IP packet, the method comprises: determining whether the IP packet is compressible under a predetermined condition and. if the IP packet is compressible under the predetermined condition, performing a compression of the IP packet. There are also provided a user equipment (UE) and a node adapted to perform the steps of a method according to the invention.

Claims

1. A method for transmission of data over a radio interface in a radio communication network based on a protocol layers model, the model comprising an IP layer on which IP packets are handled, wherein before the transmission of a determined IP packet, the method comprises:

determining whether the IP packet is compressible under a predetermined condition;

detecting a congestion status in the radio interface, the congestion status being either positive if there is congestion in the radio interface, or negative if there is no congestion in the radio interface; and

if the IP packet is compressible under said predetermined condition, performing a compression of the IP packet at the IP layer,

wherein performing a compression of the IP packet comprises;

performing a lossy compression of the IP data packets, if the congestion status in the radio network interface is positive, and

performing a lossless compression of the IP data packets, if the congestion status in the radio network interface is negative.

2. The method according to claim 1, where the predetermined condition is that the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously compressed.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein an IP packet is compressible if

the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously compressed and further

an achievable compression ratio is greater than a threshold, the achievable compression ratio being defined by the ratio:

uncompressed data size/compressed data size.

4. The method according to claim 1, where the predetermined condition is that the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously encrypted.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein an IP packet is compressible if

the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously encrypted and further

an achievable compression ratio is greater than a threshold, the achievable compression ratio being defined by the ratio:

uncompressed data size/compressed data size.

6. The method according to claim 1, where the predetermined condition is that the IP packet is compressible by default.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein an IP packet is compressible if

the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously compressed or encrypted and further

the congestion status is positive.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein an IP packet is compressible if

the congestion status is negative and

the IP data field of the IP packet is not previously compressed or encrypted.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending the IP packet;

receiving the IP packet from the radio interface; and

performing a decompression of the packet received if the received IP packet is compressed.

10. A system comprising,

one or more user equipments (UE), adapted to send and receive IP data packets over a radio interface, and compress and decompress said IP data packets at the IP layer;

one or more nodes in a radio communication network, adapted to send and receive said IP data packets over the radio interface, and compress and decompress said IP data packets at the IP layer; and

wherein the system comprises means adapted to carry out the steps of a method according to claim 1.

11. A user equipment (UE) comprising means adapted to perform the steps of a method according to claim 1.

12. A node in a radio communication network comprising means adapted to perform the steps of a method according to claim 1.