Controlling of quality of experience measurement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025234225-A1
Application number	US-202519169809-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 3, 2025
Priority date	Apr 1, 2021
Publication date	Jul 17, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium of communication. The method implemented at a first device comprises: obtaining first periodicity information indicating a first periodicity. The first periodicity is used by a second device to perform a quality of experience measurement. The method further comprises determining a second periodicity to be used by an AS of the second device to report one or more measurement results of the QoE measurement. The method further also comprises transmitting second periodicity information indicating the second periodicity to the second device. In this way, the first device may be involved in the procedure of configuration and maintaining the QoE measurement. More specifically, the first device may control the interval for reporting QoE measurement results.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A terminal device comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to:
receive, by an access stratum of the terminal device from an access network device, first periodicity information together with second periodicity information, the first periodicity information indicating a first periodicity to be used by an application layer of the terminal device in reporting of quality of experience measurements for a service of the terminal device and the second periodicity information indicating a second periodicity that is configured by the access network device for the terminal device to report one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurements of the service;
collect, by the terminal device, the one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurements measured by the application layer of the terminal device; and
report the one or more measurement results according to the second periodicity.

2 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the terminal device uses the second periodicity to transmit by the access stratum the one or more measurement results after receiving a request from the access network device.

3 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the terminal device to:
receive, from the access network device, an application layer container used to configure parameters for the quality of experience measurements together with the second periodicity information, wherein the application layer container comprises the first periodicity information indicating the first periodicity.

4 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to report the one or more measurement results according to the second periodicity by:
starting a timer according to the second periodicity; appending each of the one or more measurement results to a measurement log; and in accordance with a determination that the timer is timeout, reporting the measurement log to the access network device.

5 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the terminal device to:
transmit, by the access stratum of the terminal device to the access network device, the one or more measurement results.

6 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the second periodicity information is received via a radio resource control message.

7 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the second periodicity information comprises at least one of the following:
a value of the second periodicity, or a scale factor of the second periodicity relative to the first periodicity.

8 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, further cause the terminal device to:
collect the one or more measurement results by the access stratum of the terminal device, and transmit the one or more measurement results by the access stratum of the terminal device.

9 . A method comprising:
receiving by an access stratum of a terminal device, from an access network device, first periodicity information together with second periodicity information, the first periodicity information indicating a first periodicity used by an application layer of the terminal device in reporting of quality of experience measurements for a service of the terminal device and the second periodicity information indicating a second periodicity that is configured by the access network device for the terminal device to report one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurements of the service; collecting, by the terminal device, the one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurement measured by the application layer of the terminal device; and reporting the one or more measurement results according to the second periodicity.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more measurement results are collected by the access stratum of the terminal device, and
wherein the one or more measurement results are transmitted by the access stratum of the terminal device.

11 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
receiving, from the access network device, an application layer container used to configure parameters for the quality of experience measurements together with the second periodicity information, wherein the application layer container comprises first periodicity information indicating a first periodicity.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein reporting the one or more measurement results according to the second periodicity comprises:
starting a timer according to the second periodicity; appending each of the one or more measurement results to a measurement log; and in accordance with a determination that the timer is timeout, reporting the measurement log to the access network device.

13 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the access stratum of the terminal device to the access network device, the one or more measurement results.

14 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the second periodicity information is received via a radio resource control message.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the second periodicity information comprises at least one of the following:
a value of the second periodicity, or a scale factor of the second periodicity relative to the first periodicity.

16 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer program thereon, the computer program when executed by a processor of a terminal device, causing the terminal device to:
receive by an access stratum of the terminal device from an access network device, first periodicity information together with second periodicity information, the first periodicity information indicating a first periodicity to be used by an application layer of the terminal device in reporting of quality of experience measurements for a service of the terminal device and the second periodicity information indicating a second periodicity that is configured by the access network device for the terminal device to report one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurements of the service; collect, by the terminal device, the one or more measurement results of the quality of experience measurements measured by the application layer of the terminal device; and report the one or more measurement results according to the second periodicity.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the access stratum of the terminal device is further caused to use the second periodicity to transmit the one or more measurement results after receiving a request from the access network device.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
receive, from the access network device, an application layer container used to configure parameters for the quality of experience measurements together with the second periodicity information, wherein the application layer container comprises the

Assignees

• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• He Jing
• Tomala Malgorzata

Classifications

• H04W80/12

  Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol] · CPC title

• H04L41/5067

  Customer-centric QoS measurements · CPC title

• H04W24/10

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• H04W24/08 Primary

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