Method and system for measuring quality of service running on terminal, and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10547504-B2
Application number	US-201715858222-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2017
Priority date	Jun 30, 2015
Publication date	Jan 28, 2020
Grant date	Jan 28, 2020

Abstract

A method for measuring quality of a service running on a terminal includes sending, by the terminal, a measurement request message to a network management device, where the measurement request message requests the network management device to measure the quality of the service, receiving, by the terminal, measurement configuration information from the network management device in response to the measurement request message, coloring a packet of a service stream within a preset measurement period according to the measurement configuration information to obtain a colored packet, and sending, by the terminal, at least one of quantity information or time stamp information of the colored packet to the network management device. Hence, the quality of the service running on the terminal is comprehensively measured.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
sending, by a terminal, a measurement request message to a network management device, wherein the measurement request message requests the network management device to measure a quality of a service;
receiving, by the terminal, measurement configuration information from the network management device in response to the measurement request message;
coloring, by the terminal, a packet of a service stream within a preset measurement period according to the measurement configuration information to obtain a colored packet, wherein the service stream comprises a data stream of the service, and wherein the measurement configuration information comprises the preset measurement period; and
sending, by the terminal, at least one of quantity information or time stamp information of the colored packet to the network management device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein coloring the packet of the service stream within the preset measurement period comprises coloring the packet of the service stream within the preset measurement period according to a preset coloring rule, and wherein the preset coloring rule comprises coloring a bit of at least one of a type of service (TOS) field or a flag field of the packet.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the measurement request message comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) flow performance measurement (FPM) request message.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before sending the measurement request message to the network management device, the method further comprises obtaining, by the terminal, a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of the network management device from a domain name server (DNS), and wherein sending the measurement request message to the network management device comprises sending, by the terminal, the measurement request message to the network management device according to the public IP address.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the measurement configuration information from the network management device, wherein the colored packet is obtained after the packet of the service stream is colored within the preset measurement period by the terminal according to the measurement configuration information, and wherein the service stream comprises the data stream of the service;
collecting statistics of a quantity and time stamps of colored packets received within the preset measurement period; and
sending, to the network management device, the quantity of the colored packets obtained through the statistics.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the measurement configuration information from the network management device, wherein the colored packet is obtained after the packet of the service stream is colored within the preset measurement period by the terminal according to the measurement configuration information, and wherein the service stream comprises the data stream of the service;
collecting statistics of a quantity and time stamps of colored packets received within the preset measurement period; and
sending, to the network management device, the time stamps information of the colored packets obtained through the statistics.

7. A terminal, comprising:
a transmitter configured to send a measurement request message to a network management device, wherein the measurement request message requests the network management device to measure a quality of a service;
a receiver configured to receive measurement configuration information from the network management device in response to the measurement request message; and
a processor coupled to the transmitter and the receiver and configured to color a packet of a service stream within a preset measurement period according to the measurement configuration information to obtain a colored packet,
wherein the service stream comprises a data stream of the service,
wherein the measurement configuration information comprises the preset measurement period, and
wherein the transmitter is further configured to send at least one of quantity information or time stamp information of the colored packet to the network management device.

8. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to color the packet of the service stream within the preset measurement period according to a preset coloring rule, and wherein the preset coloring rule comprises coloring a bit of at least one of a type of service (TOS) field or a flag field of the packet.

9. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the measurement request message comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) flow performance measurement (FPM) request message.

10. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to obtain a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of the network management device from a domain name server (DNS), and wherein the transmitter is further configured to send the measurement request message to the network management device according to the public IP address.

11. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the measurement configuration information from the network management device, wherein the colored packet is obtained after the packet of the service stream is colored within the preset measurement period by the terminal according to the measurement configuration information, wherein the service stream comprises the data stream of the service, wherein the processor is further configured to collect statistics of a quantity and time stamps of colored packets received within the preset measurement period, and wherein the transmitter is further configured to send, to the network management device, the quantity of the colored packet obtained through the statistics.

12. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the measurement configuration information from the network management device, wherein the colored packet is obtained after the packet of the service stream is colored within the preset measurement period by the terminal according to the measurement configuration information, wherein the service stream comprises the data stream of the service, wherein the processor is further configured to collect statistics of a quantity and time stamps of colored packets received within the preset measurement period, and wherein the transmitter is further configured to send, to the network management device, the time stamps of the colored packets obtained through the statistics.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Yining
• Cao Cheng
• Ma Zhiwei

Classifications

• H04L43/10

  Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route · CPC title

• H04W24/04

  Arrangements for maintaining operational condition · CPC title

• H04L47/822

  Collecting or measuring resource availability data · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04L41/0803 Primary

  Configuration setting · CPC title