Method, computer software products, client terminal, network element and network for efficient use of network resources by just-in-time modulation of quality of service based on service usage and user behavior

• US 8,046,462 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2003
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Trappeniers, Lieven Leopold Albertine, Godon, Marc Bruno Frieda
• Primary Examiner(s): ISMAIL, SHAWKI SAIF
• Application Number:
  US10/616,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20050262228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,028 Days
• Field of Search: 709223-226, 709/228
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1485 Tariff-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1492 negotiation of tariff
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5029 Service quality level-based billing, e.g. dependent on measured service level customer is charged more or less
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/805 QOS or priority aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/823 Prediction of resource usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction

Abstract

The invention relates to observing requests, deriving quality of service (QoS) demands and scheduling the network'"'"'s resources in terms of QoS. A scheduler is modulating the QoS based on service usage and user-behavior just-in-time. It relates to a method for efficient use of network resources by just-in-time modulation of quality of service based on real-time service-usage and user-behavior comprising steps recording events, generating a synthesis of user-behavior for a QoS user profile according to QoS user preferences, predicting required QoS demand based on current user behavior and user QoS profile, according to QoS user preferences, deriving and propagating QoS demands and allocations, and co-ordination of QoS request of a manifold of users, based on requests, QoS user profiles, QoS user preferences and resources. Further it relates to computer software product, client terminals, a scheduler server, a network element, and a network.

Claims

1. A method for allocating network resources by just-in-time modulation of quality of service (QoS), comprising:

receiving a user profile from a client terminal, said user profile comprising aggregated user behavior information recorded at said client terminal;

receiving QoS demands from said client terminal, said QoS demands determined based on said user profile;

allocating network resources to said client terminal based on said QoS demands.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is performed according to QoS user preferences.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said QoS user preferences specify a QoS demanding strategy.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said OoS demands are predicted by a neural network.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said prediction is based on said aggregated service usage and user behavior information recorded at said client terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising coordinating concurrent QoS demands of a manifold of users.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein coordinating concurrent QoS demands of a manifold of users comprises evaluating QoS demands of a manifold of users, and balancing QoS grants based on QoS user profiles of said manifold of users.

12. A computer software product for allocating network resources by just-in-time modulation of quality of service (QoS), the computer software product comprising computer-executable instructions stored on a physical computer-readable medium, said instructions for performing the method according to claim 1.

8. A telecommunication network, comprising:

a client terminal and a scheduler server, said client terminal comprising communication means for requiring and using network resources and quality of service (QoS) demands, said scheduler server comprising scheduling or dispatching means allocating network resources based on QoS demands;

wherein the client terminal further comprises acquiring means for recording events of a user as user-behavior and aggregation means for aggregating user-behavior in a QoS user profile;

wherein the communication means comprises demanding means for demanding predicted quality of service (QoS) demands based on service-usage and said user-behavior; and

wherein said scheduling or dispatching means comprises coordinating means for coordinating concurrent QoS demands of a manifold of users and evaluation and balancing means for evaluating QoS demands and balancing QoS grants based on QoS user profiles comprising aggregated service-usage and user-behavior received from a client terminal.

9. A client terminal comprising:

communication means for requiring and using network resources and quality of service (QoS) demands;

wherein the client terminal further comprises acquiring means for recording events of a user as user-behavior and aggregation means for aggregating user-behavior in a QoS user profile; and

wherein the communication means comprises demanding means for demanding predicted QoS demands based on service-usage and said user-behavior.

10. The client terminal according to claim 9, further comprising further communication means for providing the QoS user profiles to a scheduler server.

11. A scheduler server comprising:

scheduling or dispatching means for allocating network resources based on QoS demands, wherein said scheduling or dispatching means comprises coordinating means for coordinating concurrent QoS demands of a manifold of users and evaluation and balancing means for evaluating QoS demands and balancing QoS grants based on QoS user profiles comprising aggregated service-usage and user-behavior received from a client terminal.