Server device capable of analyzing communication behavior, control device, control method for mobile terminal, and computer readable medium

• US 9,788,221 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Onishi, Tatsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): DAYA, TEJIS A
• Application Number:
  US14/430,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,489 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/32 Hierarchical cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/22 for handling the traffic

Abstract

A server device of the invention prevents congestion in a wireless network due to an excessive number of accesses. The behavior analysis server device includes a behavior analysis unit which analyzes data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time and generates information indicating communication behavior as communication behavior information; a recording unit which records the communication behavior information; and a type determination unit which determines whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition, and transmits a notification for connecting, a mobile terminal that has performed a communication associated with the communication behavior information satisfying the predetermined behavior type determination condition, to a predetermined cell.

Claims

1. A behavior analysis server device in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes a hierarchical cell structure in which a small-scale microcell is disposed in a macrocell, the device comprising:

an analysis unit, implemented by one or more processors, that;

analyzes data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time, and

generates communication behavior information;

a recording unit, implemented by the one or more processors, that;

records the communication behavior information;

a type determination unit, implemented by the one or more processors, that;

determines whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition; and

a transceiver that transmits a notification for connecting a mobile terminal to a predetermined cell, the mobile terminal having performed communication behavior satisfying the predetermined behavior type determination condition,

wherein the communication behavior information indicates a sum of communication data quantity and a number of accesses in the analysis time, and

wherein the behavior type determination condition is based on a threshold related to the sum of communication data quantity and the number of accesses.

2. The behavior analysis server device according to claim 1,

wherein the behavior type determination condition includes a condition for identifying a particular application, and

wherein the transceiver transmits the notification for connecting a mobile terminal executing the identified particular application to the predetermined cell in accordance with a type of the identified particular application.

3. A control device in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes a hierarchical cell structure in which a small-scale microcell is disposed in a macrocell, the device comprising:

an analysis unit, implemented by one or more processors, that;

analyzes data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time, and

generates communication behavior information;

a recording unit, implemented by the one or more processors, that;

records the communication behavior information;

a type determination unit, implemented by the one or more processors, that;

determines whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition;

a result processing unit, implemented by the one or more processors, that;

selects a cell in accordance with provessing capacity of a base station of the macrocell or the microcell and the notification, the cell being for the mobile terminal to connected to; and

a transceiver that;

transmits a notification for connecting a mobile terminal to a predetermined cell, the mobile terminal having performed communication behavior satisfying the predetermined behavior type determination condition; and

receives the notification including information indicating an application type associated with an application which is executed on the mobile terminal and an identification information about a communication that the application is performing,

wherein the communication behavior information indicates a sum of communication data quantity and a number of accesses in the analysis time, and

wherein the behavior type determination condition is based on a threshold related to the sum of communication data quantity and the number of accesses.

4. The control device according to claim 3,

wherein the result processing unit further performs a control in such a manner that, while the communication is being performed, the mobile terminal is not connected to the predetermined cell.

5. A control method for a mobile terminal for analyzing a behavior of each mobile terminal connected to a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes a hierarchical cell structure in which a small-scale microcell is disposed in a macrocell, the method comprising:

analyzing data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time;

generating information indicating communication behavior as communication behavior information;

recording the communication behavior information in a recording unit;

determining whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition; and

connecting a mobile terminal to a predetermined cell, the mobile terminal having performed communication behavior satisfying the predetermined behavior type determination condition,

wherein the communication behavior information includes information indicating a sum of communication data quantity and a number of accesses in the analysis time, and

wherein the behavior type determination condition is based on a threshold related to the sum of communication data quantity and the number of accesses.

6. The control method for the mobile terminal according to claim 5,

wherein the behavior type determination condition includes a condition for identifying a particular application, and

wherein the mobile terminal executing the identified particular application is connected to the predetermined cell in accordance with a type of the identified particular application.

7. The control method for the mobile terminal according to claim 5,

wherein the cell to which the mobile terminal is connected is selected in accordance with a processing capacity of a base station of the macrocell or the microcell and the notification.

8. The control method for the mobile terminal according to claim 5,

wherein while a communication associated with the communication behavior information satisfying the behavior type determination condition is being performed, the mobile terminal performing the communication is not connected to the predetermined cell.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations for analyzing communication behavior, the operations comprising:

analyzing data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time;

generating communication behavior information;

recording the communication behavior information in a recording unit;

determining whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition; and

transmitting a notification for connecting a mobile terminal to a predetermined cell, the mobile terminal having performed communication behavior satisfying the predetermined type determination condition,

wherein the communication behavior information includes information indicating a sum of communication data quantity and a number of accesses in the analysis time, and

wherein the behavior type determination condition is based on a threshold related to the sum of communication data quantity and the number of accesses.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9,

wherein the behavior type determination condition includes a condition for identifying a particular application, and

wherein the notification for connecting a mobile terminal executing the identified particular application to the predetermined cell is transmitted in accordance with a type of the identified particular application.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations for analyzing communication behavior, the operations comprising:

analyzing data packets of each mobile terminal connected to the wireless network within a predetermined analysis time;

generating communication behavior information;

recording the communication behavior information in a recording unit;

determining whether the communication behavior information satisfies a predetermined behavior type determination condition;

transmitting a notification for connecting a mobile terminal to a predetermined cell, the mobile terminal having performed communication behavior satisfying the predetermined type determination condition;

receiving the notification including information indicating an application type associated with an application which is executed on the mobile terminal and an identification information about a communication that the application is performing; and

selecting a cell in accordance with processing capacity of a base station of a macrocell or a microcell and the notification, the cell being for the mobile terminal to connected to,

wherein the communication behavior information indicates a sum of communication data quantity and a number of accesses in the analysis time, and

wherein the behavior type determination condition is based on a threshold related to the sum of communication data quantity and the number of accesses.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11,

wherein while the communication is being performed, the mobile terminal is not connected to the predetermined cell.