DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROL TO FACILITATE FEMTO BASE STATION COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20100075692A1
• Filed: 04/15/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Sun, Dong, Busschbach, Peter, Favichia, Frank
• Application Number:
  US12/424,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20100075692A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/452.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/18 End to end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2491 Mapping quality of service [QoS] requirements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/786 Mapping reservation between domains
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/824 Applicable to portable or mobile terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/12 using signalling between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

An exemplary method of facilitating communications involving a Femto base station (FBS) includes initiating a dedicated backhaul quality of service (QoS) request by the FBS. The request is based on at least an association between the FBS and a wireline backhaul resource used by the FBS. The QoS for the wireline backhaul resource is based on a QoS for a wireless communication session corresponding to the request.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating communications involving a Femto base station (FBS), comprising the steps of:

initiating a dedicated backhaul quality of service (QoS) request by the FBS, the request being based on at least an association between the FBS and a wireline backhaul resource used by the FBS; and

utilizing a QoS for the wireline backhaul resource that is based on a QoS for a wireless communication session corresponding to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising releasing the wireline backhaul resource upon termination of the wireless communication session.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising establishing the association by

receiving a registration request from the FBS at a gateway;

associating an identifier of the FBS with the wireline backhaul resource;

receiving a registration message regarding a mobile station provided by the FBS to the gateway;

associating an identifier of the mobile station with the associated FBS identifier and the wireline backhaul resource.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the gateway comprises a Femto gateway that interfaces with an anchor point of a wireless communication network that facilitates the wireless communication session.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising

granting the received request if at least one of a service level agreement or a network policy accommodate the received request.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising mapping quality of service parameters of the QoS information for the wireless communication session to QoS parameters useful for the wireline quality of service.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising using a public Internet Protocol address of an IPSec tunnel or a radio gateway in relation to the FBS to identify the wireline backhaul resource in the association.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising

communicating between a wireless resource manager and a wireline resource manager for determining the corresponding quality of service requirement of the wireline backhaul resource.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising

checking a subscription profile of the FBS or a mobile station registered with the FBS for determining an allowable QoS.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireline backhaul resource is part of a packet transport network.