Method and system of network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks
First Claim
1. A method for provisioning service flows in a broadband wireless network, comprising:
- identifying a subscriber station (SS) attempting to access the broadband wireless network, wherein the broadband wireless network employs an air interface defined by an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) IEEE 802.16-based broadband wireless standard;
retrieving service flow parameters corresponding to the SS, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested; and
creating service flows for the SS based on the service flow parameters that are retrieved, the service flows enabling the SS to access the broadband wireless network.
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Abstract
A method and system for network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks. The method and system employ a network management system (NMS) to manage nodes corresponding to base stations (BS) and subscriber stations (SS). A service flow database is used to store data relating to pre-provisioned dynamic service flows for subscribers having service agreements with a service provider for the broadband wireless network. Management Information Bases (MIBs) are hosted by the various BSs in the network, along with the SSs. The MIBs contain tabulated data that is used to define and provision dynamic service flows. The MIBs are structured to enable management of the MIBs via Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) messaging and SNMP agents operating on the SNMP managed nodes for the BSs and SSs. The provisioning technique associates sets of Quality of Service (Qos) parameters with corresponding service classes, enabling a set of QoS parameters for a given dynamic service flow to be identified by the corresponding service class.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for provisioning service flows in a broadband wireless network, comprising:
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identifying a subscriber station (SS) attempting to access the broadband wireless network, wherein the broadband wireless network employs an air interface defined by an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) IEEE 802.16-based broadband wireless standard; retrieving service flow parameters corresponding to the SS, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested; andcreating service flows for the SS based on the service flow parameters that are retrieved, the service flows enabling the SS to access the broadband wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method, comprising:
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storing subscriber service flow provisioning information in a service flow database managed by a broadband wireless service provider, wherein the broadband wireless network employs an air interface defined by an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) IEEE 802.16-based broadband wireless standard; storing a sub-set of the subscriber service flow provisioning information in a Management Information Base (MIB) at a base station (BS) operated by the broadband wireless service provider; and sending subscriber service flow provisioning information between the service flow database and the BS using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) messages, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A machine-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions executed at a base station (BS) of a broadband wireless network perform operations comprising:
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identifying a subscriber station (SS) attempting to access the broadband wireless network via the base station (BS), wherein the broadband wireless network employs an air interface defined by an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) IEEE 802.16-based broadband wireless standard; sending a request to a service flow database to obtain pre-provisioned service flow parameters corresponding to the SS; and creating service flows for the SS to enable the SS to access the broadband wireless network based on the service flow parameters that are retrieved, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus, comprising:
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a processor; a broadband wireless network interface including a plurality of broadband wireless network components compliant with an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) 802.16-based broadband wireless standard, operatively coupled to the processor, the broadband wireless components to facilitate communications over an IEEE P802.16-based broadband wireless network; second network interface, operatively coupled to the processor; and
at least one storage device, operatively coupled to the processor and having instructions stored therein, which when executed by the processor perform operations including;authenticating a subscriber station (SS) attempting to access the broadband wireless network via the BS, the authentication including obtaining a SS identifier; sending a request to a service flow database over the second network interface to obtain pre-provisioned service flow parameters corresponding to the SS, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested; andcreating service flows for the SS to enable the SS to access the broadband wireless network based on the service flow parameters that are retrieved. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system, comprising:
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a network management system, to manage flow provisioning in a broadband wireless network, wherein the broadband wireless network employs an air interface defined by an IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) IEEE 802.16-based broadband wireless standard; a service flow database, linked in communication with the network management system; a plurality of base stations (BS), each linked in Communication with the network management system and the service flow database, a base station having software accessible thereto, which when executed performs operations including; identifying a subscriber station (SS) attempting to access the broadband wireless network via the BS; sending a request to obtain pre-provisioned service flow parameters corresponding to the SS, wherein the service flow parameters include dynamic service flow information corresponding to a desired level of service, the desired level of service including;
a number of uplink/downlink (UL/DL) connections requested and data rates requested; andcreating service flows for the SS to enable the SS to access the broadband wireless network based on the service flow parameters that are retrieved. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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