Wireless communications method, wired transmission detection method, and related device and system

• US 10,028,289 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Lei, Fan, Yuqun, Qiao, Weihua
• Primary Examiner(s): Masur, Paul H
• Application Number:
  US14/971,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0829 Packet loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/18 End to end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

A wireless communications method is provided. The method includes acquiring, by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity, a first parameter, a second parameter, and state information of a current service of a base station; determining, according to the first parameter and the second parameter, and with reference to the state information of the current service of the base station, whether a condition for guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) of a service is satisfied; and if it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied, permitting providing a user equipment with the first service having a corresponding QoS guarantee; or if it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is not satisfied, performing a first operation. The method is applied to the field of communications.

Claims

1. A policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the programming instructions instruct the processor to;

acquire a first parameter, wherein the first parameter is a performance parameter of quality of service (QoS) of a first service requested by a current user equipment, and wherein the first parameter comprises at least one of an end-to-end delay, an end-to-end packet loss rate, or a future network transmission rate;

acquire a second parameter, wherein the second parameter is a transmission characteristic parameter that characterizes wired transmission of the first service;

acquire state information of a current service of a base station;

determine, based on the first parameter, the second parameter, and the state information of the current service of the base station, whether a condition for guaranteeing QoS of a service is satisfied, wherein the service comprises the first service and the current service of the base station;

permit providing the user equipment with the first service when it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied; and

execute a first operation when it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is not satisfied,

wherein, determining whether a condition for guaranteeing QoS of the service is satisfied comprises;

acquiring a maximum air interface transmission delay and a maximum packet loss rate based on the first parameter and the second parameter; and

determining that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied when it is determined, based on the maximum air interface transmission delay and the state information of the current service of the base station, that a condition for guaranteeing an air interface transmission delay of the first service is satisfied, and it is determined, based on the maximum packet loss rate and the state information of the current service of the base station, that a condition for guaranteeing a maximum packet loss rate of the first service is satisfied.

2. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to acquire the second parameter comprise instructions that cause the processor to perform at least one of:

request, by sending a first request message to another network node, to acquire the second parameter; and

acquire the second parameter by reading stored record data of the second parameter.

3. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to acquire state information of the current service of the base station comprise instructions that cause the processor to perform at least one of:

request, by sending a second request message to the base station, to acquire the state information of the current service of the base station; and

acquire the state information of the current service of the base station by reading stored record data of service state information of the base station.

4. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to execute the first operation comprise instructions that cause the processor to:

send a third request message to a server, to request to re-determine the first parameter;

acquire a first parameter re-determined by the server; and

determine, according to the re-determined first parameter and the second parameter, and with reference to the state information of the current service of the base station, whether the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied, until it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied.

5. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to execute the first operation comprise instructions that cause the processor to reject establishing a connection to the first service.

6. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to determine that the condition for guaranteeing an air interface transmission delay of the first service is satisfied comprise instructions that cause the processor to:

calculate, according to the maximum air interface transmission delay and with reference to the state information of the current service of the base station, a first bandwidth required by the maximum air interface transmission delay of the first service;

add the first bandwidth to a maximum bandwidth required by the current service of the base station, to acquire a second bandwidth; and

determine that the condition for guaranteeing the air interface transmission delay of the first service is satisfied when the second bandwidth does not exceed a bandwidth of a frequency band of the base station.

7. The PCRF entity of claim 6, wherein the state information of the current service of the base station comprises a correspondence between transmission delays and average scheduling spectral efficiency, and wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to calculate the first bandwidth by the maximum air interface transmission delay comprises instructions that cause the processor to:

determining, according to the maximum air interface transmission delay and the correspondence between transmission delays and average scheduling spectral efficiency, average scheduling spectral efficiency corresponding to the maximum air interface transmission delay; and

calculating, according to the average scheduling spectral efficiency and a parameter of the future network transmission rate, the first bandwidth required by the maximum air interface transmission delay.

8. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the first service is a unidirectional downloading service, and wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to acquire the maximum air interface transmission delay and the maximum packet loss rate comprise instructions that cause the processor to:

calculate a first wired transmission delay and a first wired transmission packet loss rate according to the second parameter, wherein the first wired transmission delay is a delay of wired transmission from a server to the base station, and wherein the first wired transmission packet loss rate is a packet loss rate of the wired transmission from the server to the base station;

subtract the first wired transmission delay from the end-to-end delay in the first parameter, to acquire the maximum air interface transmission delay; and

subtract the first wired transmission packet loss rate from the end-to-end packet loss rate in the first parameter, to acquire the maximum packet loss rate.

9. The PCRF entity claim 8, wherein the second parameter comprises at least one of:

a transmission characteristic parameter of the base station to the server; and

a transmission characteristic parameter of a packet data gateway (PGW) to the server and a transmission characteristic parameter of the PGW to the base station.

10. The PCRF entity of claim 9, wherein the transmission characteristic parameter of the PGW to the base station comprises a transmission characteristic parameter of a first path from the PGW to the base station, and wherein the first path is determined by the PGW according to the transmission characteristic parameter of the PGW to the server, and the end-to-end delay and the end-to-end packet loss rate in the first parameter.

11. The PCRF entity of claim 8, wherein the future network transmission rate comprises at least one of:

a maximum transmission rate;

an average transmission rate;

a mean square error of transmission rate variations; and

time correlation of transmission rate variations.

12. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the first service is a bidirectional call service, wherein, before the maximum air interface transmission delay and the maximum packet loss rate are acquired, a call delay and a call packet loss rate that are guaranteed by a peer base station of the base station are acquired, and wherein the programming instructions that cause the processor to acquire the maximum air interface transmission delay and the maximum packet loss rate comprise instructions that cause the processor to:

calculate a first wired transmission delay and a first wired transmission packet loss rate according to the second parameter, wherein the first wired transmission delay is a delay of wired transmission from a current base station to the peer base station, and wherein the first wired transmission packet loss rate is a packet loss rate of the wired transmission from the current base station to the peer base station;

subtract a sum of the first wired transmission delay and the call delay guaranteed by the peer base station from the end-to-end delay in the first parameter, to acquire the maximum air interface transmission delay; and

subtract a sum of the first wired transmission packet loss rate and the call packet loss rate guaranteed by the peer base station from the end-to-end packet loss rate in the first parameter, to acquire the maximum packet loss rate.

13. The PCRF entity of claim 12, wherein the second parameter comprises a transmission characteristic parameter from the current base station to the peer base station.

14. The PCRF entity of claim 12, wherein the future network transmission rate comprises at least one of a maximum voice transmission rate and a voice activity factor.

15. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein the transmission characteristic parameter comprises at least one of:

an average transmission delay;

a transmission delay mean square error; and

an average transmission packet loss rate.

16. The PCRF entity of claim 1, wherein, when it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied, the programming instructions further instruct the processor to determine a corresponding charging standard according to the performance parameter of the QoS of the first service.

17. A wireless communications method, comprising:

acquiring, by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity, a first parameter, wherein the first parameter is a performance parameter of quality of service (QoS) of a first service requested by a current user equipment, wherein the first parameter comprises at least one of an end-to-end delay, an end-to-end packet loss rate, or a future network transmission rate;

acquiring a second parameter, wherein the second parameter is a transmission characteristic parameter that characterizes wired transmission of the first service;

acquiring state information of a current service of a base station;

determining, according to the first parameter, the second parameter, and the state information of the current service of the base station, whether a condition for guaranteeing QoS of a service is satisfied, wherein the service comprises the first service and the current service of the base station;

permitting providing the user equipment with the first service having a corresponding QoS guarantee when it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is satisfied; and

executing a first operation when it is determined that the condition for guaranteeing the QoS of the service is not satisfied, wherein determining, according to the first parameter, the second parameter, and the state information of the current service of the base station, whether a condition for guaranteeing QoS of a service is satisfied comprises;

acquiring a maximum air interface transmission delay and a maximum packet loss rate according to the first parameter and the second parameter; and

determining that the condition for guaranteeing QoS of the service is satisfied when it is determined, according to the maximum air interface transmission delay and the state information of the current service of the base station, that a condition for guaranteeing an air interface transmission delay of the first service is satisfied, and it is determined, according to the maximum packet loss rate and the state information of the current service of the base station, that a condition for guaranteeing a maximum packet loss rate of the first service is satisfied.