Device and method for QoS based cell capacity dimensioning
First Claim
1. A method to monitor Quality of Service, QoS, criteria of at least two different traffic classes in at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising:
- monitoring and comparing an actual call blocking rate with a blocking rate threshold and data through-put with a data through-put threshold and outputting monitoring results indicative thereof;
upon detecting a negative monitoring result, adapting traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell by reallocating capacity between the different traffic classes; and
providing a forecasting functionality comprisingperforming an evaluation of time changes or time behavior of parameters indicating traffic or traffic growth,successively detecting an actual value of the parameters in repeatedly executed steps,determining, on the basis of the time changes or the time behavior, a time point when the traffic handling capacity of the communication system is to reach an upper limit with respect to the QoS criteria, andsignaling or displaying the determined time point for planning a next upgrade of hardware capacity for handling the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring QoS criteria of Traffic classes of at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising means for setting thresholds, means for monitoring the traffic with regard to the thresholds for the at least two different traffic classes, and means for adapting the traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell depending on the monitoring result. The monitored traffic classes preferably include circuit-switched traffic and packet-switched traffic, and/or realtime and non-realtime packet-switched traffic. Thresholds are preferably set and monitored for rate of call attempt blocking, and/or data throughput, and/or service blocking.
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24 Claims
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1. A method to monitor Quality of Service, QoS, criteria of at least two different traffic classes in at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising:
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monitoring and comparing an actual call blocking rate with a blocking rate threshold and data through-put with a data through-put threshold and outputting monitoring results indicative thereof; upon detecting a negative monitoring result, adapting traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell by reallocating capacity between the different traffic classes; and providing a forecasting functionality comprising performing an evaluation of time changes or time behavior of parameters indicating traffic or traffic growth, successively detecting an actual value of the parameters in repeatedly executed steps, determining, on the basis of the time changes or the time behavior, a time point when the traffic handling capacity of the communication system is to reach an upper limit with respect to the QoS criteria, and signaling or displaying the determined time point for planning a next upgrade of hardware capacity for handling the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus configured to monitor Quality of Service, QoS, criteria of at least two different traffic classes in at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising:
a processor configured to monitor an actual call blocking rate and data through-put, compare the actual call blocking rate with a blocking rate threshold and the data through-put with a data through-put threshold and output monitoring results indicative thereof, upon detecting a negative monitoring result, adapt traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell by reallocating capacity between the different traffic classes, and provide a forecasting functionality to estimate a time point to perform a next upgrade of hardware capacity to handle the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity, wherein the forecasting functionality is configured to perform an evaluation of time changes or time behavior of parameters indicating traffic or traffic growth, successively detect an actual value of the parameters in repeatedly executed steps, determine, on the basis of the time changes or the time behavior, the time point when the traffic handling capacity of the communication system is to reach an upper limit with respect to the QoS criteria, and signal or display the determined time point for planning a next upgrade of hardware capacity for handling the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium to monitor Quality of Service, QoS, criteria of at least two different traffic classes in at least one cell in a telecommunication system, the computer program being configured to control a processor to perform:
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monitoring and comparing an actual call blocking rate with a blocking rate threshold and data through-put with a data through-put threshold and outputting monitoring results indicative thereof; upon detecting a negative monitoring result, adapting traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell by reallocating capacity between the different traffic classes; and providing a forecasting functionality comprising performing an evaluation of time changes or time behavior of parameters indicating traffic or traffic growth, successively detecting an actual value of the parameters in repeatedly executed steps, determining, on the basis of the time changes or the time behavior, a time point when the traffic handling capacity of the communication system is to reach an upper limit with respect to the QoS criteria, and signaling or displaying the determined time point for planning a next upgrade of hardware capacity for handling the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity.
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24. An apparatus for monitoring Quality of Service, QoS, criteria of at least two different traffic classes in at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising:
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monitoring means for monitoring an actual call blocking rate and data through-put, comparing means for comparing compare the actual call blocking rate with a blocking rate threshold and the data through-put with a data through-put threshold and output monitoring results indicative thereof, adapting means for adapting, upon detecting a negative monitoring result, the traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell by reallocating capacity between the different traffic classes, and providing means for providing a forecasting functionality for estimating a time point to perform a next upgrade of hardware capacity to handle the traffic ensuring sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity, wherein the forecasting functionality performs an evaluation of time changes or time behavior of parameters indicating traffic or traffic growth, successively detects an actual value of the parameters in repeatedly executed steps, determines, on the basis of the time changes or the time behavior, the time point when the traffic handling capacity of the communication system is to reach an upper limit with respect to the QoS criteria, and signals or displays the determined time point for planning a next upgrade of hardware capacity for handling the traffic to ensure sufficient and appropriate future traffic handling capacity.
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