QUALITY OF SERVICE TREATEMENT FOR APPLICATIONS WITH MULTIPLE TRAFFIC CLASSES

• US 20130329550A1
• Filed: 06/07/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Kotecha, Lalit R., Stone, William H., Neisinger, Chris S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,007,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2425 for supporting services specification, e.g. SLA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/245 using preemption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2475 for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/6275 based on priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0257 the individual bearer or channel having a maximum bit rate or a bit rate guarantee
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

A system may receive a connection request, from a user device, that includes information identifying a particular application; identify that the particular application is associated with a group of classes of traffic; establish a group of bearer channels that are associated with the group of classes of traffic, the group of bearer channels being associated with a group of different levels of quality of service (“QoS”); process, via a first bearer channel and according to a first level of QoS, first traffic associated with the user device and the particular application; and process, via a second bearer channel of the group of bearer channels, according to a second level of QoS, second traffic associated with the user device and the particular application, the second bearer channel being different from the first bearer channel, and the second level of QoS being different from the first level of QoS.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by one or more server devices, a connection request from a user device, the connection request including information identifying a particular application;

identifying, by the one or more server devices, that the particular application is associated with a plurality of classes of traffic;

establishing, by the one or more server devices, a plurality of bearer channels that are associated with the plurality of classes of traffic, the plurality of bearer channels being associated with a plurality of different levels of quality of service (“

QoS”

);

processing, via a first bearer channel of the plurality of bearer channels, according to a first level of QoS of the plurality of levels of QoS, and by the one or more server devices, first traffic associated with the user device and the particular application; and

processing, via a second bearer channel of the plurality of bearer channels, according to a second level of QoS of the plurality of levels of QoS, and by the one or more server devices, second traffic associated with user device and the particular application,

the second bearer channel being different from the first bearer channel, and the second level of QoS being different from the first level of QoS.

2. The method of claim 1, where processing the first traffic according to the first level of QoS includes:

establishing a routing of the first traffic according to one or more criteria associated with the first level of QoS.

3. The method of claim 2, where the criteria include at least one of:

communication delay criteria, or

bandwidth criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, where processing the first traffic according to the first level of QoS includes:

identifying that a traffic output queue, associated with the one or more server devices, includes the first traffic associated with the first level of QoS and the second traffic associated with the second level of QoS, where the second traffic has been received by the traffic output queue before the first traffic; and

outputting the first traffic from the user device before outputting the second traffic, based on identifying that the first traffic is associated with the first level of QoS.

5. The method of claim 1, where processing first traffic according to the first level of QoS and processing second traffic according to the second level of QoS include:

processing the first traffic and the second traffic via a single port associated with the one or more server devices.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the user device is authorized for receiving treatment of traffic, to or from the user device, according to multiple QoS levels for the particular application,

where establishing the plurality of bearer channels is further based on determining that the user device is authorized for receiving treatment of traffic according to the multiple QoS levels for the particular application.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a list of identifiers of one or more applications that are associated with multiple classes of traffic,

where identifying that the particular application is associated with the plurality of classes of traffic includes;

comparing an identifier associated with the particular application to the list of identifiers, and

identifying, based on the comparing, that the particular application is associated with multiple classes of traffic.

8. A system, comprising:

one or more devices to;

receive a connection request from a user device, the connection request including information identifying a particular application;

identify that the particular application is associated with a plurality of classes of traffic;

establish a plurality of bearer channels that are associated with the plurality of classes of traffic, the plurality of bearer channels being associated with a plurality of different levels of quality of service (“

QoS”

);

process, via a first bearer channel of the plurality of bearer channels and according to a first level of QoS of the plurality of levels of QoS, first traffic associated with user device and the particular application; and

process, via a second bearer channel of the plurality of bearer channels, according to a second level of QoS of the plurality of levels of QoS, and by the one or more server devices, second traffic associated with user device and the particular application,

the second bearer channel being different from the first bearer channel, and the second level of QoS being different from the first level of QoS.

9. The system of claim 8, where when processing the first traffic according to the first level of QoS, the one or more devices are to:

establish a routing of the first traffic according to one or more criteria associated with the first level of QoS.

10. The system of claim 9, where the criteria include at least one of:

communication delay criteria, or

bandwidth criteria.

11. The system of claim 8, where when processing the first traffic according to the first level of QoS, the one or more devices are to:

identify that a traffic output queue includes the first traffic associated with the first level of QoS and the second traffic associated with the second level of QoS, where the second traffic has been received by the traffic output queue before the first traffic; and

output the first traffic from the user device before outputting the second traffic, based on identifying that the first traffic is associated with the first level of QoS and based on identifying that the second traffic is associated with the second level of QoS.

12. The system of claim 8, where when processing first traffic according to the first level of QoS and when processing the second traffic according to the second level of QoS, the one or more devices are to:

process the first traffic and the second traffic via a single port associated with the one or more devices.

13. The system of claim 8, where the one or more devices are to:

determine that the user device is authorized for receiving treatment of traffic, to or from the user device, according to multiple QoS levels for the particular application,

where the plurality of bearer channels are established further based on determining that the user device is authorized for receiving treatment of traffic according to the multiple QoS levels for the particular application.

14. The system of claim 8, where the one or more devices are to:

store a list of identifiers of one or more applications that are associated with multiple classes of traffic,

where when identifying that the particular application is associated with the plurality of classes of traffic, the one or more devices are to;

compare an identifier associated with the particular application to the list of identifiers, and

identify, based on the comparing, that the particular application is associated with multiple classes of traffic.

15. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a user device, information associated with a particular application, the information including;

information identifying a first type of traffic associated with the particular application, and

information identifying a second type of traffic associated with the particular application;

providing, by the user device, a first level of quality of service (“

QoS”

) to first traffic to or from the user device, the first traffic being associated with the particular application and the first type of traffic; and

providing, by the user device, a second level of QoS to second traffic to or from the user device, the second traffic being associated with the particular application and the second type of traffic, the first level of QoS being different from the second level of QoS.

16. The method of claim 15, where providing the first level of QoS to the first traffic includes:

identifying that a traffic output queue, associated with the user device, includes the first traffic and the second traffic, where the second traffic has been received by the traffic output queue before the first traffic; and

outputting the first traffic from the user device before outputting the second traffic, based on identifying that the first traffic is associated with the first type of traffic.

17. The method of claim 15, where providing the first level of QoS to the first traffic and providing the second level of QoS to the second traffic include at least one of:

outputting the first traffic and the second traffic from a single port associated with the user device, or

receiving the first traffic and the second traffic via a single port associated with the user device.

18. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a server device, a plurality of user devices that are participating in a communication session;

assigning, by the server device, a group identifier to the plurality of user devices;

providing, by the server device, the group identifier to at least a first user device, of the plurality of user devices;

receiving, by the server device, first information from the first user device, the first information specifying that a destination of the first information is based on the group identifier; and

providing, by the server device and based on the first information specifying that the destination of the first information is based on the group identifier, second information to at least a second user device, of the plurality of user devices, the second user device being different from the first user device, the second information being based on the first information.

19. The method of claim 18, where the second information includes at least a portion of the first information.

20. The method of claim 18, where the group identifier includes an Internet Protocol (“

IP”

) address.