APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN INTEGRATED NETWORK OF HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE NETWORK

• US 20080130656A1
• Filed: 11/26/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIN, Yeon-Seung, KIM, Hyung-Sub, KIM, Yeong-Jin
• Granted Patent: US 7,756,056 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/395.21
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/308 Route determination based on user's profile, e.g. premium users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/808 User-type aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/824 Applicable to portable or mobile terminals

Abstract

An apparatus and method for managing QoS in an integrated network system are provided. The apparatus includes: an information provider for providing policy information based on a network equipment control algorithm, a user profile and network information; a condition calculator for calculating conditions that are used for selecting a policy based on the user profile and the network information received from the information provider; a policy deciding unit for deciding a network equipment control algorithm according to the conditions, receiving the policy information corresponding to the decided network equipment control algorithm from the information provider, and requesting resource allocation; and a resource allocator for receiving the request of resource allocation from the policy deciding unit and allocating resources.

Claims

1. An apparatus of managing quality of service (QoS) in an integrated network system, comprising:

an information providing means for providing policy information based on a network equipment control algorithm, a user profile and network information;

a condition calculating means for calculating conditions that are used for selecting a policy based on the user profile and the network information received from the information proving means;

a policy deciding means for deciding a network equipment control algorithm according to the conditions, receiving the policy information corresponding to the decided network equipment control algorithm from the information providing means, and requesting resource allocation; and

a resource allocating means for receiving the request of resource allocation from the policy deciding means and allocating resources.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information providing means includes:

a service management means for providing a predetermined user profile corresponding to a request of the user profile from a local network manager, and providing a predetermined policy information corresponding to the decided network equipment control algorithm;

a profile monitor means for receiving the predetermined user profile from the service management means and transferring the received user profile to the condition calculating means; and

a network monitor for providing the network information to the condition calculating means.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the condition calculating means checks whether or not a user is registered based on the user profile received from the service management means.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the profile monitor provides information on whether or not a user is registered to a predetermined system, whether or not a predetermined service is subscribed, preference, and a speed of a mobile terminal.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the network monitor obtains network information including interference degree and noise level of a predetermined network at a predetermined time.

6. A method for managing quality of service (QoS) in an integrated network system, comprising:

at a information provider, providing a user profile and a network information in accordance with a user profile request signal;

at a condition calculator, calculating conditions that are used for selecting a policy based on the user profile and the network information;

at a policy decision unit, deciding a network equipment control algorithm based on the calculated conditions;

at the policy decision unit, forwarding a request signal for policy information corresponding to the decided network equipment control algorithm;

at the policy decision unit, receiving the policy information in accordance with the request signal from the information provider; and

at a resource allocator, allocating resources for the received policy information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the providing the user profile and the network information includes:

at a service management unit, providing a predetermined user profile corresponding to the user profile request signal from a local network manager;

at a profile monitor, receiving the predetermined user profile from the service management unit and transferring the received user profile to the condition calculator; and

at a network monitor, providing the network information to the condition calculator.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the calculating conditions further includes:

checking whether or not a user is registered based on the predetermined user profile.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing the user profile and the network information further includes:

at the profile monitor, providing information on whether or not a user is registered to a predetermined system, whether or not a predetermined service is subscribed, preference, and a speed of a mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing the user profile and the network information further includes:

at the network monitor, obtaining the network information including interference degree and noise level of a predetermined network at a predetermined time.