Differentiated management of non-umts traffic in a umts access network

• US 20050226232A1
• Filed: 06/24/2003
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Preguica, Christophe, Pham, Tan-Nhon
• Application Number:
  US10/523,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20050226232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/356
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2408 for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2483 involving identification of individual flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/161 Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

Telecommunication terminal having means for transmitting a stream of packets of data to an access router to a telecommunication network, characterized in that it comprises means for inserting client information into said stream indicating if said stream corresponds to a mobile telephone standard or not.

Claims

1. Telecommunication terminal (T_U) comprising means for transmitting a stream (f_u) of packets of data to an access router (R) to a telecommunication network (N), characterized in that it comprises means for inserting client information into said stream indicating if said stream corresponds to a mobile telephone standard.

2. Telecommunication terminal according to claim 1, wherein said standard is the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standard.

3. Telecommunication terminal according to claim 1, wherein said client information is inserted into a header of said packets.

4. Telecommunication terminal according to claim 3, wherein said client information is inserted into a hop-by-hop option header of said packets.

5. Router belonging to a telecommunication network, comprising means for receiving streams of packets of data, characterized in that it comprises means for determining if said stream corresponds to a mobile telephone standard from client information inserted in said stream and means for implementing quality of service assurance mechanisms as a function of what is determined in this way.

6. Router according to claim 5, taking the form of an access router to said telecommunication network.

7. Router according to claim 5, wherein said quality of service assurance mechanisms depend on other information on the client contained in said stream.

8. Router according to claim 5, additionally comprising means for notifying a billing server, indicating if said stream corresponds to a mobile telephone standard.