Vehicle-based femtocell with prioritization of data packets on the basis of the required internet service quality

• US 10,277,303 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2017
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Fertl, Peter, Monserrat Del Rio, Jose Francisco
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US15/498,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 455 9
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/38 Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15521 combining by calculations packets received from different stations before transmitting the combined packets as part of network coding network coding aspects for detection or prevention of errors in the information received H04L1/0076; network traffic management with optimizing of information sizing, e.g. header compression, by using assembly and disassembly of packets H04W28/065
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15528 Control of operation parameters of a relay station to exploit the physical medium
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

A device for a relay transceiver in a mobile communication system, which includes a base station transceiver and a packet data network interface, includes at least one transceiver module configured to communicate with at least one mobile transceiver and with the base station transceiver. The device further includes a control module configured to determine, on the basis of a data packet received by the at least one mobile transceiver, information about a quality criterion of a service associated with the data packet, and to establish, on the basis of the information about the quality criterion, a data connection to the packet data network interface via the base station transceiver.

Claims

1. A device for a relay transceiver in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system comprises a base station transceiver and a packet data network interface, the device comprising:

at least one transceiver module configured to communicate with at least one mobile transceiver and with the base station transceiver; and

a control module configured to;

determine, on the basis of a data packet received by the at least one mobile transceiver, information about a quality criterion of a service associated with the data packet,

establish, via the at least one transceiver module, a plurality of simultaneously active data connections having different quality criteria to the packet data network interface via the base station transceiver, wherein at least one of the data connections is established on the basis of the information about the quality criterion, and

cause the transfer of data packets assigned to services with identical quality criteria to the data packet via the at least one data connection.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module is further configured to:

determine, on the basis of received additional data packets, information about respective quality criteria of respective data services associated with the additional data packets; and

set up, on the basis of the information about the respective quality criteria, the plurality of simultaneously active data connections to the packet data network interface via the base station transceiver.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the relay transceiver is a mobile relay transceiver.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile communication system further comprises a coordination module, a link connection and a network component,

wherein the relay transceiver is connected via the link connection to the network component, which receives the data packets of the mobile transceiver,

wherein the coordination module is configured to set up the at least one data connection in accordance with the information about the quality criterion, and

wherein the control module is further configured to communicate the information about the quality criterion via an internet protocol multimedia subsystem interface to the coordination module.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module further is configured to at least one of:

determine the information about the quality criterion of the service associated with the data packet by extracting the quality criterion from the header data of the data packet, and

determine the information about the quality criterion of the service associated with the data packet by pattern analysis of the content of the data packet.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control module is configured to communicate in an encrypted fashion via the data connection.

7. A device for a network component for providing a data service to at least one mobile transceiver in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system has a relay transceiver, the device comprising:

at least one interface module configured to communicate via the one relay transceiver with the at least one mobile transceiver, and to communicate with at least one communication partner of the at least one mobile transceiver; and

a control module configured to;

determine, on the basis of a data packet received by the at least one communication partner of the at least one mobile transceiver, information about a quality criterion of a service associated with the data packet,

establish, via the at least one interface module, a plurality of simultaneously active data connections having different quality criteria to the mobile transceiver via the relay transceiver, wherein at least one of the data connections is established on the basis of the information about the quality criterion, and

cause the transfer of data packets assigned to services with identical quality criteria to the data packet via the at least one data connection.

8. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control module is further configured to:

determine, on the basis of received additional data packets, information about respective quality criteria respective data services associated with the additional data packets; and

set up, on the basis of the information about the respective quality criteria, the plurality of simultaneously active data connections to the relay transceiver.

9. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the mobile communication system further comprises a coordination module,

wherein the coordination module is configured to set up the at least one data connection in accordance with the information about the quality criterion, and

wherein the control module is further configured to communicate the information about the quality criterion via an internet protocol multimedia subsystem interface to the coordination module.

10. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control module is further configured to at least one of:

determine the information about the quality criterion of the service associated with the data packet by extracting the quality criterion from the header data of the data packets; and

determine the information about the quality criterion of the service associated with the data packet by pattern analysis of the content of the data packet.

11. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control module is configured to communicate in an encrypted fashion via the link connection.

12. A method for a network component for providing a data service to at least one mobile transceiver in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system has a relay transceiver, the method comprising the acts of:

communicating, via the relay transceiver, with the at least one mobile transceiver;

communicating with at least one communication partner of the at least one mobile transceiver;

determining information about a quality criterion of a service associated with a data packet received by the at least one communication partner of the at least one mobile transceiver;

establishing, via a packet data network interface of the mobile communications system, a plurality of simultaneously active data connections having different quality criteria to the relay transceiver, wherein at least one of the data connections is established on the basis of the information about the quality criterion; and

causing the transfer of data packets assigned to services with identical quality criteria to the data packet via the at least one data connection.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

determining, on the basis of received additional data packets, information about respective quality criteria of respective data services associated with the additional data packets; and

set up, on the basis of the information about the respective quality criteria, the plurality of data simultaneously active connections to the relay transceiver.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

determining the information about the quality criterion of the service associated with the data packet by at least one of extracting the quality criterion from the header data of the data packet and by performing pattern analysis of the content of the data packet.