METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QOS FOR MOBILE INTERNET SERVICE

• US 20090034428A1
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: POSDATA Co., Ltd (Posco)
• Original Assignee: POSDATA Co., Ltd (Posco)
• Inventors: Jeong, Jin Hwa
• Application Number:
  US12/280,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20090034428A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• 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 47/2416 Real-time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2441 relying on flow classification, e.g. using integrated services [IntServ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2458 Modification of priorities while in transit
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/31 by tagging of packets, e.g. using discard eligibility [DE] bits
• 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 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

Disclosed are a QoS (Quality of Service) providing system that manages service quality of a mobile Internet system, and an apparatus and method that apply QoS according to the class of a mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network. The QoS providing system includes a service class table storage unit for storing at least one QoS parameter value for a plurality of mobile Internet services; a service identifying unit for identifying a QoS service class of a mobile Internet service requested over the mobile Internet network; a QoS parameter extracting unit for extracting QoS parameters of the identified mobile Internet service by referring to the service class table; and a QoS performing unit for performing QoS on the requested mobile Internet service according to the extracted QoS parameters. Thus, several types of services can be provided simultaneously and smoothly according to a requested service characteristic in a mobile Internet network in which real-time competition for resources occurs.

Claims

1. A QoS providing system for managing quality of mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network, the system comprising:

a service class table storage unit for storing at least one QoS parameter for a plurality of mobile Internet services;

a service identifying unit for identifying a QoS service class of a mobile Internet service requested over the mobile Internet network;

a QoS parameter extracting unit for extracting a QoS parameter of the identified mobile Internet service by referring to the service class table; and

a QoS performing unit for performing QoS on the requested mobile Internet service based on the extracted QoS parameter.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one QoS parameter is one of traffic minimum transmission rate, maximum latency, jitter, and maximum sustain rate values.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS performing unit performs the QoS according to the QoS service class only when the requested service is not a best effort.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile Internet network is based on an OFDMA scheme.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS performing unit comprises:

an IP packet judging unit for identifying the mobile Internet service corresponding to IP packets received over the mobile Internet network; and

an IP packet scheduler for determining transmission priorities of the IP packets according to a predetermined scheduling scheme for the identified mobile Internet service.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the IP packet scheduler classifies mobile Internet services into a plurality of groups having different priorities, and applies the same scheduling scheme to services in the same priority groups.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the scheduling scheme includes any one of a best effort scheme, a weighted fair queuing (WFQ) scheme, and a proportional fair (PF) scheme.

8. The system according to claim 5, wherein the best effort scheduling scheme is used when the requested service is a MAC management message (MNG) service.

9. The system according to claim 5, wherein the scheduling scheme is a proportional fair queuing scheme when the requested service is a best effort service.

10. The system according to claim 5, wherein the scheduling scheme is a weighted fair queuing scheme when the requested service is a service other than an MAC management message service and a best effort service.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein a transmission priority used in the weighted fair queuing scheme is determined by the following equation:

[Equation 2]

P=W₁*TR_min+W₂*L_max+W₃*1/J+W₄*SR_max+W₅*AG+W₆*QDF

where, P denotes a relative priority for IP packet transmission,

TR_min denotes minimum transmission rate,

L_max denotes maximum latency,

J denotes jitter,

SR_max denotes a maximum sustain rate,

AG denotes an aging factor,

QDF denotes a queue length factor, and

W₁, W₂, W₃, W₄, W₅, and W₅ denote weights of the minimum transmission rate, the maximum latency, the jitter, the maximum sustain rate, the aging factor, and the queue length factor, respectively.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS performing unit comprises a marker for marking or re-marking a QoS field of IP packet according to the judgment of traffic of IP packet received over the mobile Internet network by referring to the QoS parameter stored in the service class table.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS performing unit maps a service flow identifier to a connection identifier (CID) according to a pre- determined IP packet classification rule by referring to the service flow identifier (SFID) of the IP packet received via the mobile Internet network.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS providing system is disposed in a radio access station (RAS) or an access control router (ACR).

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein the QoS performing unit performs the QoS for each service flow of the requested mobile Internet service.

16. A QoS providing system for managing quality of mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network, the system comprising:

an element management system (EMS) for creating a service class table that stores at least one first QoS parameter for each of a plurality of mobile Internet services;

a quality manager (QM) for generating a second QoS parameter based on a request for mobile Internet service received from a portable subscriber station;

an access control router (ACR) for comparing the first QoS parameter to the second QoS parameter to identify a class of the requested mobile Internet service; and

a radio access station (RAS) for assigning a wireless channel for the identified mobile Internet service, and communicating IP packets with the PSS via the assigned wireless channel.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the quality manager sends the second QoS parameter to the ACR according to a common open policy service (COPS) standard protocol.

18. A QoS providing system for managing quality of mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network, the system comprising:

an access control router (ACR) for generating a service flow identifier (SFID) using QoS parameters and a service class table, and transmitting the service flow identifier and at least one of the QoS parameters; and

a radio access station (RAS) for assigning a connection identifier (CID) to the SFID, and providing the QoS for a service flow other than a best effort (BE) service by considering at least one of the QoS parameters.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the CID is assigned by reflecting a packet classification result conforming to a predetermined IP packet classification rule.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the packet classification rule is created by the ACR and sent to the radio access station.

21. A QoS providing system for managing quality of mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network, the system comprising:

a radio access station (RAS) for assigning a connection identifier (CID) to a service flow identifier (SFID), and providing the QoS for a service flow by considering at least one QoS parameter, wherein the radio access station comprises a scheduler for providing the QoS when the service flow does not correspond to a best effort service.

22. A QoS providing method for managing quality of mobile Internet service provided over a mobile Internet network, the method comprising the steps of:

creating a service class table storage unit for storing at least one first QoS parameter value for each of a plurality of mobile Internet services;

generating a second QoS parameter value in response to a request for mobile Internet service received from a portable subscriber station (PSS);

identifying a QoS service class of the requested mobile Internet service by comparing the first QoS parameter stored in the service class table storage unit to the second QoS parameter creating a service flow of the requested mobile Internet service according to the QoS service class; and

performing QoS on the requested mobile Internet service for each created service flow.

26. A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the method according to claims 22.

23. A method for providing QoS service in a terminal supporting mobile Internet services, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a QoS service class by executing an application for a mobile Internet service; and

determining whether to request a QoS service to an application function (AF) according to whether the QoS service class corresponds to a best effort (BE) service.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the QoS service class includes at least one of best effort (BE) service, unsolicited grant service (UGS), real-time polling service (Rt-PS), extended real-time polling service (Ert-PS), and non-real-time polling service (Nrt-PS).

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein the step of determining whether to request a QoS service to an application function (AF) comprises the step of sending the request for QoS service not via the application function (AF) when the QoS service class is the best effort service, and sending the request for QoS service to the application function when the QoS service class is not the best effort service.

27. A method for providing QoS service comprising the steps of;

receiving a request of a mobile internet service;

identifying QoS parameters from the request;

creating a service flow identifier to identify a service flow based on the QoS parameters;

mapping the service flow identifier to a connection identification identifier to perform the QoS service for the service flow.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein the QoS service is performed when the service flow identifier does not correspond to a best effort.

29. The method according to claim 27, further comprising the step of scheduling packets of the service flow based on weights of the QoS parameters.