Method for ensuring uplink quality of service, base station and user equipment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9717016-B2
Application number	US-201414153915-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2014
Priority date	Jul 15, 2011
Publication date	Jul 25, 2017
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for ensuring uplink quality of service, a base station and a user equipment. The method for ensuring the uplink quality of service includes: receiving a downlink service data flow, where the downlink service data flow carries an uplink transmission control identifier; and controlling, based on the uplink transmission control identifier, a transmission of a service type's uplink data for which an uplink transmission control needs to be performed in an uplink radio bearer, so as to reduce a transmission rate of the service type's uplink data. Through the technical solution provided by embodiments of the present invention, data is recognized in a dedicated radio bearer and controlled when a centralized scheduling is adopted for uplink resources, thereby ensuring the uplink quality of service.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for ensuring uplink quality of a service, the method comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink service data flow, wherein the downlink service data flow carries an uplink transmission control identifier indicating a service type for an uplink transmission control in an uplink radio bearer, wherein the uplink transmission control identifier is used for reducing a resource occupation of the service type's uplink data in the uplink radio bearer so as to control transmission of the service type's uplink data; and
controlling, by the UE, based on the uplink transmission control identifier, the transmission of the service type's uplink data, wherein the controlling comprises one of:
(a) mapping, by the UE, the service type's uplink data to an independent uplink transmission buffer, and reducing, by the UE, a scheduling priority of the service type's uplink data;
(b) reducing, by the UE, a scheduling priority of a logical channel associated with the service type's uplink data; and
(c) reducing, by the UE, a speed at which the service type's uplink data enters a corresponding uplink transmission buffer.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
mapping, by the UE, the service type's uplink data to the independent uplink transmission buffer, or reducing, by the UE, the scheduling priority of the service type's uplink data, comprises: receiving, by the UE, one or multiple groups of traffic flow templates (TFTs) and quality of service (QoS) assigned by a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) or a base station to a radio bearer carrying the service type's uplink data, and a TFT group associated with the service type is mapped to an uplink transmission buffer and corresponds to a group of QoS.

3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising: sending, by the UE, a buffer status report (BSR) with a granularity of the uplink transmission buffer to a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) or a base station.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, the reducing, by the UE, the speed at which the service type's uplink data enters the corresponding uplink transmission buffer comprises:
reducing, by the UE, the speed at which the service type's uplink data enters the corresponding uplink transmission buffer through a service type's traffic flow template (TFT) carried by a non-access stratum (NAS) layer application or through the service type's TFT obtained by classifying service flow data.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein controlling the transmission of the service type's uplink data includes mapping the service type's uplink data to a new radio bearer or an existing radio bearer, and the existing radio bearer has been mapped to other service type's uplink data for which the uplink transmission control needs to be performed.

6. A user equipment comprising:
a receiver configured to received a downlink service data flow, wherein the downlink service data flow carries an uplink transmission control identifier indicating a service type for an uplink transmission control in an uplink radio bearer, wherein the uplink transmission control identifier is used for reducing a resource occupation of the service type's uplink data in the uplink radio bearer so as to control transmission of the service type's uplink data; and
a processor configured to control the transmission of the service type's uplink data based on the uplink transmission control identifier and further configured to provide one of the following:
(a) map the service type's uplink data to an independent uplink transmission buffer, and reduce a scheduling priority of the service type's uplink data;
(b) reduce a scheduling priority of a logical channel associated with the service type's uplink data;
(c) map the service type's uplink data to a dedicated radio bearer; and
(d) reduce a speed at which the service type's uplink data enters a corresponding uplink transmission buffer.

7. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein:
the receiver is further configured to receive one or multiple groups of traffic flow templates (TFTs) and quality of service (QoS) assigned by a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) or a base station to a radio bearer carrying the service type's uplink data, and a TFT group associated with the service type is mapped to an uplink transmission buffer and corresponds to a group of QoS.

8. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein the user equipment further comprises a transmitter configured to send a buffer status report (BSR) with a granularity of the uplink transmission buffer to a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) or a base station.

9. The user equipment according to claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to reduce the speed at which the service type's uplink data enters the corresponding uplink transmission buffer through a service type's traffic flow template (TFT) carried by a non-access stratum (NAS) layer application or through the service type's TFT obtained by classifying service flow data.

10. The user equipment according to claim 6 , wherein:
the uplink transmission control identifier is obtained by a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) or a base station utilizing a deep packet inspection (DPI) technique to recognize the service type for which the uplink transmission control needs to be performed in the uplink radio bearer.

11. A base station comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a downlink service data flow from a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW) and acquire from the downlink service data flow an uplink transmission control identifier indicating a service type for an uplink transmission control in an uplink radio bearer, wherein the uplink transmission control identifier is used for reducing a resource occupation of the service type's uplink data in the uplink radio bearer so as to control transmission rate of the service type's uplink data; and
a processor configured to control the transmission of the service type's uplink data, based on the uplink transmission control identifier, by reducing a scheduling priority of a logical channel corresponding to the service type's uplink data, and allocating the logical channel corresponding to the service type's uplink data to a new logical channel group.

12. The base station according to claim 11 , wherein:
the uplink transmission control identifier is obtained by the PDN-GW utilizing a deep packet inspection (DPI) technique to recognize the service type for which the uplink transmission control needs to be performed in the uplink radio bearer.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zeng Qinghai
• Zhang Aiqin
• Lei Lingyun

Classifications

• H04W76/14

  Direct-mode setup · CPC title

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W28/0205 Primary

  at the air interface (dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12) · CPC title

• H04W28/22

  Negotiating communication rate · CPC title