Method and apparatus for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end CAC in internet service network

• US 20070116004A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Soon Seok, Kim, Young Sun, Kang, Kuk Chang
• Application Number:
  US11/503,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20070116004A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/395.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/15 in relation to multipoint traffic arrangements for broadcast or multicast in data networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/18 End to end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/724 at intermediate nodes, e.g. resource reservation protocol [RSVP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/785 among multiple network domains, e.g. multilateral agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]

Abstract

Provided is a method and apparatus for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end CAC in an Internet service network. The method includes the steps of: (a) performing a subscriber domain CAC by querying a subscriber DB to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of a subscriber when a subscriber terminal requests resource reservation; (b) performing a network domain CAC by querying a resource DB based on a result of the subscriber domain CAC to determine whether a resource required for service can be reserved or not; and (c) updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of a subscriber domain in the subscriber DB and resource use information of a network domain in the resource DB when the resource reservation is completed through the steps (a) and (b).

Claims

1. A method for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end call admission control (CAC) in an Internet service network, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) performing a subscriber domain CAC by querying a subscriber DB to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of a subscriber when a subscriber terminal requests resource reservation;

(b) performing a network domain CAC by querying a resource DB based on a result of the subscriber domain CAC to determine whether a resource required for service can be reserved or not; and

(c) updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of a subscriber domain in the subscriber DB and resource use information of a network domain in the resource DB, when the resource reservation is completed through the steps (a) and (b).

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

(d) obtaining circuit ID information of a subscriber using a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) packet; and

(e) recording and managing information about previously-reserved bandwidth and available bandwidth for the subscriber in the subscriber DB based on the obtained circuit ID information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein step (d) comprises:

a first step of inserting a MAC address of a subscriber terminal and the circuit ID information into the DHCP packet to transmit the DHCP packet to a DHCP server;

a second step of, by the DHCP server, allocating an IP address;

a third step of binding the allocated IP address with the corresponding circuit ID information to temporarily store them in a memory; and

a fourth step of binding a subscriber ID obtained in a network authentication process with the IP address and the circuit ID information to record them in the subscriber DB.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first step comprises a step of inserting the circuit ID information into a client identifier which is an option field of the DHCP packet to transmit the DHCP packet to the DHCP server.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising steps of:

when the subscriber terminal requests resource release,

releasing the resource through network setting in response to the resource release request; and

updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information in the subscriber DB and resource use information in the resource DB as the resource is released.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises the steps of:

transmitting, by a call agent, IP address information of a subscriber and requested bandwidth information of a service to a network control function in response to the subscriber terminal'"'"'s service request;

requesting, by the network control function, a service control function to perform the subscriber domain CAC based on the IP address information of the subscriber and the requested bandwidth information of the service;

determining, by the service control function, whether to admit a call depending on a remaining available bandwidth of a subscriber side by referring to the subscriber DB; and

transmitting the CAC result to the network control function.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises the steps of:

calculating a path requested for a service;

querying the resource DB to determine whether a resource required for the service on the calculated path can be reserved or not; and

reserving the resource through network setting and transmitting a call admission message to the subscriber when it is determined that the resource reservation is possible.

8. The method of claim 1, when resource reservation is requested in a state that a caller and a callee are connected to the same network or different networks, further comprising the steps of:

performing a subscriber domain CAC by querying the subscriber DB for each of a caller side and a callee side to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of the caller and the callee; and

performing a network domain CAC by querying the resource DB for each of the caller and the callee sides based on the subscriber domain CAC result to determine whether a resource required for service can be reserved.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising a step of, when the resource reservation is completed by the subscriber domain CAC performing step and the network domain CAC performing step, updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of each of the caller and the callee in the subscriber DB and resource use information in the resource DB

10. The method of claim 1, when resource release is requested in a state that the caller and the callee are connected to the same network or different networks, further comprising the steps of:

releasing the resource through network setting in response to the resource release request; and

updating reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of each of the caller and the callee in the subscriber DB and resource use information in the resource DB as the resource is released.

11. An apparatus for guaranteeing QoS using end-to-end CAC in an Internet service network, comprising:

a service control function for performing subscriber domain CAC which queries a subscriber DB to determine whether to admit a call based on available bandwidth information of a subscriber when resource reservation is requested; and

a network control function for performing network domain CAC which queries a resource DB according to the call admission determination result of the service control function to determine whether a resource required for service can be reserved or not,

wherein the service control function updates reserved bandwidth information and available bandwidth information of a subscriber in the subscriber DB, and the network control function updates resource use information in the resource DB when the resource reservation is completed.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the service control function comprises a DHCP server for allocating an IP address;

and

when a DHCP packet containing a MAC address and circuit ID information is received from a subscriber terminal, the DHCP server allocates an IP address and binds the allocated IP address with corresponding circuit ID information to temporarily store them in a memory.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the circuit ID information is inserted into a client identifier which is an option field of the DHCP packet and then transmitted to the DHCP server.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subscriber DB comprises fields for:

subscriber ID information,

circuit ID information,

IP address information,

contracted bandwidth information of a subscriber line,

reserved bandwidth information of the scriber line, and

available bandwidth information of the subscriber line.