Traffic flow establishment method and device and traffic flow modification method and device

• US 9,319,320 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2012
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Bao, Dongshan, Zhou, Yubao, Peng, Chaonan, Yao, Huijuan, Yu, Xiaoyan, Liu, Shenfa
• Primary Examiner(s): Rose, Kerri
• Application Number:
  US14/008,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086045A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/125 by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

In the present invention, before data transmission, a “connection”, between a requesting end and a destination end, identified by a traffic flow identifier (FID) is established or modified through traffic flow management. Therefore, when the requesting end and the destination end perform data transmission on the traffic flow, the FID alone can sufficiently serve as the identifier, so as to save the need of carrying the destination end identifier in each exchanged data packet, thereby simplifying the operation.

Claims

1. A traffic flow establishing method comprising:

Send/Receive dynamic service establishing request with destination identifier and traffic flow identifier (FID); and

Receive/Send response to dynamic service establishing request,

wherein the dynamic service establishing request carries FID maximum buffer capability, and indicates a number of Mac Protocol Data Units (“

MPDUs”

) of the dynamic service establishing request with maximum cache at the receiving end.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the response to dynamic service establishing request comprises either one of:

acknowledgement indicating that the dynamic service establishing request is correctly received; and

sending dynamic service establishing request carry service parameters;

or dynamic service establishing response carrying the FID.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the response to dynamic service establishing request further comprises sending acknowledgement indicating that the dynamic service establishing response is correctly received.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the dynamic service establishing request carries service parameters;

and

the dynamic service establishing response further carries adjusted service parameters;

wherein

the traffic flow establishing method further comprises;

confirming reserved resource according to the service parameters in dynamic service establishing request;

adjusting service parameters in the dynamic service establishing request according to the reserved resource; and

carrying the adjusted service parameters in the dynamic service establishing response.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after sending the dynamic service establishing request within the preset number of frames, If the response is not received, re-sending the dynamic service establishing request, or ending this process; and

after sending the dynamic service establishing response within the preset number of frames, If the acknowledgement is not received, re-sending the dynamic service establishing response, or end this process.

6. A traffic flow changing method, comprising:

sending dynamic service change request with destination identifier, traffic flow identifier (FID) and new service parameters;

receiving response to dynamic service change request,

wherein the dynamic service change request carries FID maximum buffer capability, and indicates a number of Mac Protocol Data Units (“

MPDUs”

) of the dynamic service change request with maximum cache at the receiving end.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, the response to dynamic service change request comprises either one of:

acknowledgement indicating that the dynamic service change request is correctly received;

or

dynamic service change response carrying the FID.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, further includes:

send acknowledgement indicating that the dynamic service change response is correctly received.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

after sending the dynamic service change request within the preset number of frames, if the response is not received, re-sending the dynamic service change request, or ending this process; and

after sending the dynamic service change response within the preset number of frames, if the acknowledgement is not received, re-sending the dynamic service change response.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

confirming the reserved resource of the traffic flow to be modified according to the new service parameters;

adjusting the new service parameters according to the reserved resource; and

changing current service parameters corresponding to the FID and destination identifier according to adjusted new service parameters, and carrying the modified service parameters in the dynamic service change response.

11. A traffic flow establishing device comprising:

request sending unit, which sends dynamic service establishing request carrying destination identifier and traffic flow identifier (“

FID”

);

response receiving unit, which receives the response to the dynamic service establishing request;

direction information provision unit and/or buffer capacity provision unit;

wherein the direction information provision unit is used to send the information that indicates the direction of uplink or downlink traffic flows to be created to the request sending unit, which will be sent with dynamic service establishing request; and

the buffer capacity provision unit is used to provide FID maximum buffer capability to the request sending unit, which will be further sent with dynamic service establishing request, and the FID maximum buffer capability indicates a number of Mac Protocol Data Units (“

MPDUs”

) of the dynamic service establishing request with maximum cache at the receiving end.

12. A traffic flow change device comprising:

request sending unit, which sends dynamic service change request carrying destination identifier, traffic flow identifier FID and new service parameters;

response receiving unit, which receives the response to the dynamic service change request;

direction information provision unit and/or buffer capacity provision unit;

wherein the direction information provision unit is used to send the information that indicates the direction of uplink or downlink traffic flows to be changed to the request sending unit, which will be sent with dynamic service change request; and

the buffer capacity provision unit is used to provide FID maximum buffer capability to the request sending unit, which will be further sent with dynamic service change request, and the FID maximum buffer capability indicates a number of Mac Protocol Data Units (“

MPDUs”

) of the dynamic service change request with maximum cache at the receiving end.