Method and apparatus for securing quality of service of data communication

• US 8,379,595 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choe, Yun-ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Huy C
• Application Number:
  US11/600,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20070263575A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,287 Days
• Field of Search: 370/331, 370/395.21
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0044 of quality context information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0066 of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/26 by agreed or negotiated communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/38 by fixed network equipment

Abstract

A method and apparatus for securing a quality of service (QoS) of data communication is provided. The method of securing the QoS of data being received by a mobile terminal at a reception side that performs a handover from a first network to a second network comprises generating a packet including information about the second network, transmitting the packet to a transmission side, and selectively performing the handover according to whether a packet including information in response to the packet is received. When a reception side performs a handover, a transmission side can be informed of information about the second network via the exchange of packets between the reception side and the transmission side, thereby securing a QoS of the data transmission.

Claims

1. A method of securing a quality of service (QoS) of data being received by a mobile terminal at a data reception side that performs a handover from a first network to a second network, the method comprising:

generating, at the mobile terminal at the data reception side, a first packet including information about the second network;

transmitting the first packet from the mobile terminal at the data reception side to a data transmission side; and

selectively performing the handover, at the mobile terminal at the data reception side, based on response information included in a second packet received from the data transmission side in response to the first packet,

wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network,

wherein the first packet including the information about the second network is a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) packet.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the first packet comprises:

inserting information about the second network into a feedback control information field of an immediate feedback mode RTCP packet.

3. A computer readable non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing a method of claim 1.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the second network further includes at least one of signal to noise ration, information indicating interruption of a radio wave and bit error rate.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the second network is used, by a device that is transmitting data to the mobile terminal, for converting the data to be transmitted.

6. An apparatus for securing a QoS of data being received by a mobile terminal at a data reception side that performs a handover from a first network to a second network, the apparatus comprising:

a network information generator arranged to generate a first packet including information about the second network at the mobile terminal at the data reception side;

a network information transmitter arranged to transmit the first packet from the mobile terminal at the data reception side to a data transmission side; and

a handover performing unit to selectively perform the handover at the mobile terminal at the data reception side, based on response information included in a second packet received from the data transmission side in response to the first packet,

wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network,

wherein the first packet including the information about the second network is an RTCP packet.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the information about the second network is inserted in a feedback control information field of an immediate feedback mode RTCP packet.

8. A method of securing a QoS of data performed by a device that is transmitting data to a mobile terminal that performs a handover from a first network to a second network, the method comprising:

receiving a first packet including information about the second network from the mobile terminal;

converting data to be transmitted to the mobile terminal according to the information about the second network included in the first packet;

generating a second packet including response information informing that the data transmission is prepared based on the information about the second network; and

transmitting the second packet to the mobile terminal,

wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network, and

wherein the first packet including the information about the second network is an RTCP packet.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the converting of the data comprises converting the rate of compression or the size of the data to be transmitted to the mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the second packet is a real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the second packet comprises:

setting a marker bit of the RTP packet to “

1”

.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the RTP packets in which the marker bit is set to “

1”

are plural.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the response information includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second packet is a RTCP packet.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the generating of the second packet comprises:

inserting information about the second network into a feedback control information field of an immediate feedback mode RTCP packet.

16. A computer readable non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing a method of claim 8.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network.

18. An apparatus for securing a QoS of data using a device that is transmitting data to a mobile terminal that performs a handover from a first network to a second network, the apparatus comprising:

a network information data reception unit arranged to receive a first packet including information about the second network from the mobile terminal;

a data converter arranged to convert data to be transmitted to the mobile terminal according to the information about the second network included in the first packet;

a response information generator arranged to generate a second packet, which is a RTP packet, including response information informing that the data transmission is prepared based on the information about the second network; and

a response information transmitter arranged to transmit the second packet to the mobile terminal,

wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network, and

wherein the first packet including the information about the second network is an RTCP packet.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising:

wherein the second packet is a RTP packet.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the response information generator sets a marker bit of the second packet to “

1”

to generate the second packet.

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the response information generator generates the second packet including the response information.

22. A method of securing a quality of service (QoS) when a mobile terminal moves between service areas provided two wireless communication networks having a switch system and different data transmission rates, comprising:

detecting, at the mobile terminal, a handover from the first network to the second network, when the mobile terminal moves from a service area provided by a first network to a service area provided by a second network;

generating, at the mobile terminal, a first packet including information about the second network;

transmitting, at the mobile terminal, the first packet including information about the second network to the switch system; and

selectively performing, at the mobile terminal at the data reception side, the handover from the first network to the second network based on the response information included in a second packet received from the switch system in response to the first packet,

wherein the information about the second network includes information about a data transmission rate of the second network,

wherein the first packet including the information about the second network is an RTCP packet.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first packet includes information about the second network inserted into a feedback control information field of an immediate feedback mode RTCP packet.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein, upon receipt of the first packet including information about the second network, the switch system converts data to be transmitted to the mobile terminal according to the second network based on the information included in the first packet, generates the second packet including response information informing that data conversion is prepared based on the information about the second network, and transmits the second packet to the mobile terminal.