MOBILE TRANSCEIVER, BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER, DATA SERVER, AND RELATED APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS

• US 20140106770A1
• Filed: 06/01/2012
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Valentin, Stefan, Kaschub, Matthias, Proebster, Magnus, Werthmann, Thomas, Muller, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 9,271,297 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/452.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/535 based on resource usage policies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/543 based on requested quality, e.g. QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/569 of the traffic information

Abstract

Embodiments relate to apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a mobile transceiver, a base station transceiver and a data server. A mobile transceiver apparatus (10) comprises means for extracting (12) context information from an application being run on a mobile transceiver (100), context information from an operation system being run on the mobile transceiver (100), or context information from hardware drivers or hardware of the mobile transceiver (100), the context information comprising information on a state of the application and/or information on a state of the mobile transceiver (100). The apparatus (10) further comprises means for communicating (14) data packets with the base station transceiver (200), wherein the data packets comprise payload data packets and control data packets, and wherein the means for communicating (14) is operable to communicate payload data packets associated with the application with a data server (300) through the base station transceiver (200). The apparatus (10) further comprises means for providing (16) the context information to the base station transceiver (200), wherein the context information is comprised in a payload data packet or in a control data packet. A corresponding base station transceiver apparatus receives the context information directly from the mobile transceiver or indirectly through a corresponding data server apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus for a mobile transceiver for a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system comprising a base station transceiver, the apparatus comprising:

means for extracting context information from an application being run on the mobile transceiver, context information from an operation system being run on the mobile transceiver, or context information from hardware drivers or hardware of the mobile transceiver, the context information comprising information on a state of the application and/or information on a state of the mobile transceiver;

means for communicating data packets with the base station transceiver, wherein the data packets comprise payload data packets and control data packets, and wherein the means for communicating is operable to communicate payload data packets associated with the application with a data server through the base station transceiver; and

means for providing the context information to the base station transceiver, wherein the context information is comprised in a payload data packet or in a control data packet.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the context information comprises one or more elements of the group of information on a quality of service requirement of the application, priority information of the data packets associated with the application, information on a unity of a plurality of the data packets of the application, information on a load demand of the application, information on a delay or error rate constraint of the application, information on a window state, information on a memory consumption, information on a processor usage of the application running on the mobile transceiver, information on a current location, speed, orientation of the mobile transceiver, or a distance of the mobile transceiver to another mobile transceiver.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for composing a transaction data packet as part of a transaction protocol, the transaction data packet comprising the context information, wherein the transaction data packet is communicated to the base station transceiver using an any-cast payload data packet, wherein the transaction data packet is communicated to the data server using a unicast pay-load data packet, or wherein the transaction data packet or the context information is communicated to the base station transceiver using a Link Layer protocol control data packet.

14. A mobile transceiver comprising the apparatus of claim 1, a base station transceiver comprising an apparatus comprising means for receiving control data packets and payload data packets, wherein the payload data packets are associated with an application being run on the mobile transceiver;

means for obtaining context information associated with the application from a control data packet or from a payload data packet; and

means for scheduling the mobile transceiver for transmission of the data packets based on the context information, a data server comprising an apparatus comprising means for deriving context information for the data packets based on classification information received from a base station transceiver; and

means for transmitting the context information along with the data packets to the mobile communication system, and/or a mobile communication system comprising the mobile transceiver, the base station transceiver, and/or the data server.

17. A computer program having a program code for performing the method of claim 14, when the computer program is executed on a computer or processor.

4. An apparatus for a mobile communication system further comprising a mobile transceiver, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving control data packets and payload data packets, wherein the payload data packets are associated with an application being run on the mobile transceiver;

means for obtaining context information associated with the application from a control data packet or from a payload data packet; and

means for scheduling the mobile transceiver for transmission of the data packets based on the context information.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the means for obtaining is operable to obtain the context information from a transaction data packet as part of a transaction protocol, wherein the transaction data packet is received from the mobile transceiver using an any-cast payload data packet, wherein the transaction data packet is received from a data server using a unicast payload data packet, wherein the transaction data packet or the context information is received from the mobile transceiver using a Link Layer protocol control data packet, or wherein the context information is received from the data server, which is provided with classification information from the base station transceiver, wherein the context information corresponds to a tag in a data packet received from the data server.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the means for scheduling is operable to determine a transmission sequence for a plurality of transactions, the plurality of transactions referring to a plurality of applications being run by one or more mobile transceivers, a transaction corresponding to a plurality of data packets for which the context information indicates unity, an order of the sequence of transactions being based on a utility function, the utility function depending on a completion time of a transaction, which is determined based on the context information, and/or wherein the context information comprises one or more elements of the group of information on a quality of service requirement of the application, priority information of the data packets associated with the application, information on a unity of a plurality of the data packets of the application, information on a load demand of the application, information on a delay or error rate constraint of the application, information on a window state, information on a memory consumption, information on a processor usage of the application running on the mobile transceiver, information on a current location, speed, orientation of the mobile transceiver, mapping information between one or more data packets and a scheduling queue, or a distance of the mobile transceiver to another mobile transceiver.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transmission sequence is determined from an iteration of multiple different sequences of transactions, where the multiple different sequences correspond to different permutations of the plurality of transactions, wherein the means for scheduling is operable to determine the utility function for each of the multiple different sequences and is further operable to select the transmission sequence from the multiple different sequences corresponding to a maximum of the utility function, and/or wherein the means for scheduling is operable to further modify the transmission sequence based on the supportable data rate for each transaction.

8. An apparatus for a data server, the data server communicating data packets associated with an application being run on a mobile transceiver through a mobile communication system to the mobile transceiver, the apparatus comprising:

means for deriving context information for the data packets based on classification information received from a base station transceiver; and

means for transmitting the context information along with the data packets to the mobile communication system.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the context information comprises one or more elements of the group of information on a quality of service requirement of the application, priority information of the data packets associated with the application, information on a unity of a plurality of the data packets of the application, information on a load demand of the application, information on a delay or error rate constraint of the application, information on a window state, information on a memory consumption, information on a processor usage of the application running on the mobile transceiver, information on a current location, speed, orientation of the mobile transceiver, mapping information between one or more data packets and a scheduling queue, or a distance of the mobile transceiver to another mobile transceiver and wherein the means for deriving is operable to extract the context information from a unicast payload data packet received from the mobile transceiver or from a unicast payload data packet from the base station transceiver.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising means for composing a data packet, the data packet comprising application data packets and a tag with mapping information for the data packet to a scheduling queue at the base station transceiver, for composing a transaction data packet, the transaction data packet comprising application data packets and the context information, for composing a data packet header with the context information, or for composing a data packet comprising a quality of service requirement of the application.

11. A method for a mobile transceiver in a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system further comprising a base station transceiver, the method comprising:

extracting context information from an application being run on the mobile transceiver, context information from an operation system being run on the mobile transceiver, or context information from hardware drivers or hardware of the mobile transceiver, the context information comprising information on a state of the application and/or information on a state of the mobile transceiver;

communicating data packets with the base station transceiver, wherein the data packets comprise payload data packets and control data packets;

communicating payload data packets associated with the application with a data server through the base station transceiver; and

providing the context information to the base station transceiver, wherein the context information is comprised in a payload data packet or in a control data packet.

12. A method for a base station transceiver in a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system further comprising a mobile transceiver, the method comprising

receiving control data packets and payload data packets, wherein the payload data packets are associated with an application being run on the mobile transceiver;

obtaining context information on the data packets associated with the application from a control data packet or from a payload data packet; and

scheduling the mobile transceiver for transmission of the data packets based on the context information.

15. A computer program having a program code for performing the methods of claim 12, when the computer program is executed on a computer or processor.

13. A method for a data server communicating data packets associated with an application being run on a mobile transceiver through a mobile communication system to the mobile transceiver, the method comprising:

deriving context information for the data packets based on classification information received from a base station transceiver; and

transmitting the context information along with the data packets to the mobile communication system.

16. A computer program having a program code for performing the method of claim 13, when the computer program is executed on a computer or processor.