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- the present invention relates to telecommunications, in particular to wireless telecommunications.
- RT services are such as media streaming, voice/video conversations, and multimedia broadcasting. Since a network is shared by many users, each service session needs an appropriate share of the call— carrying capacity, i.e. bandwidth, at each link in the network supporting the service session. As such capacity is limited, there are often problems of congestion.
- a known way of controlling bandwidth at a congested link is to reduce the allowed rate for non-real time, NRT, service sessions.
- the aim is to ensure that there is enough bandwidth for real time, RT, service sessions.
- Iub interfaces Specifically in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks, there are interfaces, which are known as Iub interfaces, between base station controllers (radio network controllers, RNC) and the base stations that they control.
- RNC radio network controllers
- the known approach to control traffic on these Iub interfaces is to reduce the transmission rate of NRT sessions, specifically of Interactive and Background UMTS QoS classes, whilst not limiting the transmission rate of RT sessions.
- the inventor realized that the known approaches to bandwidth control seek to reduce the amount of non-real time, NRT, traffic, but do not restrict RT traffic on the assumption that RT traffic should always have priority. The inventor realized that this assumption may be false.
- a method is provided of controlling traffic on a link in a telecommunications network.
- the link carries user sessions of non-real time and real time services.
- the method comprises periodically monitoring traffic load on the link.
- the method further comprises successively restricting alternately NRT and RT traffic on the link so as to bring said load below a predetermined level.
- Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating a telecommunications network
- Figure 2 is a diagram illustrating method of bandwidth control in a link of the network shown in Figure 1 ,
- Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating a UMTS telecommunications network
- Figure 4 is a diagram illustrating the method of bandwidth control as applied in a link of the UMTS network shown in Figure 3.
- NRT service session degradation such as slow response when web-browsing and long time of file downloading, can be unacceptable.
- NRT or RT there is a need to differentiate user's traffic regardless of which application, NRT or RT, is being used by a user.
- some networks apply, and charge for applying, stricter quality of service, QoS, requirements to traffic of some users as compared to others.
- QoS quality of service
- An example is gold, silver and bronze QoS assured users.
- Users subscribing to gold QoS might be emergency service providers, e.g. police, ambulance, fire brigade and other governmental agencies, that expect highest priority.
- Silver users may be corporate customers who paid a premium so expect a high QoS.
- Bronze users may be occasional consumer users who pay less and can accept so-called best-effort performance.
- RT service sessions can be downgraded without terminating the session. These downgrades normally mean either an on-the-fly media codec rate reduction, or a radio bearer reconfiguration, so that less bandwidth is required. If a gold user is having an NRT service session and the link becomes congested, it may well be preferable to downgrade handling of a bronze user's RT service session, rather than downgrade handling of the gold user's NRT service session.
- traffic off-loading also known as load-balancing
- load-balancing can be performed to move some of the users to another link in a network, or another network.
- a typical scenario is in Third Generation, 3G, networks, such as UMTS networks, where Second Generation, 2G, network has an overlapping radio coverage area.
- 3 G voice services can be off-loaded onto the 2G network, so as to leave users of data services on the 3G network to enjoy high data rates.
- an example network 2 consists of a node controller 4 including a link 6 to a node 8.
- the node controller includes a bandwidth manager 10.
- the bandwidth manager 10 is a traffic controller that resides in the node controller 4 of a link 6 to be controlled.
- the bandwidth manager 10 has a number of tasks. Firstly, it monitors the link load either continuously or periodically, and triggers a traffic control function if the link load, LL, exceeds a traffic congestion threshold, Th_TC.
- This threshold Th_TC can be a fixed percentage of the total link bandwidth, e.g. 95%, or a fixed traffic volume per unit time value.
- the bandwidth manager 10 maintains a table including sets of bandwidth thresholds to be applied to various QoS groups of real time traffic, and also sets of bandwidth thresholds to be applied to various QoS groups of non-real time traffic. Thirdly, the bandwidth manager 10 performs the traffic reduction when congestion occurs, by steps of calculating the amounts of reduction required for certain types of traffic according to the table and reducing ingress of those types of traffic appropriately. This is described in more detail in respect of Figure 2 below.
- the bandwidth manager performs load balancing, namely moving some traffic to another link 6 so as to reduce traffic over a first link 6.
- An underlying principle is one of progressively adding restrictions or sets of restrictions according to respective QoS group, to real time and non-real time traffic alternately, according to a stored table of thresholds, until congestion is overcome.
- the restrictions are defined in a stored table of thresholds.
- Table 1 Example thresholds for congestion control As will be seen in Table 1, the types of traffic are split according to whether they relate to non real time (NRT) or real time (RT) services and according to QoS group. Users in QoS group 1 pay for and expect better quality of service than QoS group 2, whilst QoS group 3 are given least QoS assurances. Of course, in other otherwise similar embodiments, there may be more than three QoS groups.
- the base rates shown in Table 1 are the maximum permitted rates for individual user sessions before restrictions are applied; these are also known as maximum user bearer rates or user link layer rates.
- the instantaneous date rate of a user session could be anywhere between 0 and 1 times maximum permitted rate, due to burstiness of this type of traffic.
- the instantaneous data rate will have much less fluctuation but will also be less than the corresponding maximum permitted rate.
- FIG. 1 shows an example of the congestion control process that occurs in the bandwidth manager 10. The process is as follows.
- the bandwidth manager 10 determines the link load, LL, level (step a). This determination of LL level is done at set intervals, such as every 20 milliseconds, else continuously. A check is made (step b) as to whether the load level LL is below the congestion control threshold Th_TC, Whilst link load (LL) is below Th_TC, all user sessions can use up to the maximum permitted rate ("base rate”) for the relevant type of session.
- a first step (step c) of traffic reduction is applied, namely new set of bandwidth thresholds NRT-I is applied to NRT traffic as shown in Table 1.
- NRT-I new set of bandwidth thresholds
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group 1 user remains at 800 kbps whilst the maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group 2 user is reduced to 600 kbps and maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group 3 user is reduced to 400 kbps.
- step d A check is then made (step d) as to whether LL is less than Th_TC now that restrictions NRT-I have been applied. IfLL still exceeds Th_TC a further traffic reduction is applied (step e), this time to RT traffic, specifically a set of bandwidth thresholds RT_1 applied to RT traffic as shown in Table 1. Specifically, the maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT QoS group 1 user remains at 500 kbps whilst the maximum permitted rate for a session of RT QoS group 2 user is reduced to 400 kbps and the maximum permitted rate for a session of an RT QoS user is reduced to 300 kbps.
- NRT traffic is restricted first, followed by restriction qf RT traffic if the restriction of NRT traffic was not enough to bring the link load LL below the necessary threshold, Th TC.
- the actual mechanism by which maximum permitted rates are applied are well-known, for example buffering packets so as to regulate flow rates, source output rate control, and randomly discarding packets.
- step f a check is made (step f) whether LL still exceeds Th_TC. If yes, further traffic control is undertaken, namely a second step (step g) of NRT traffic reduction by applying a further set of thresholds NRT_2 to NRT traffic.
- a second step (step g) of NRT traffic reduction by applying a further set of thresholds NRT_2 to NRT traffic.
- Table 2 the maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group. 1 user is reduced to 600 kbps, the maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group 2 user is reduced to 400 kbps, and the maximum permitted rate for a session of a NRT QoS group 3 user is reduced to 300 kbps.
- step h a check is made (step h) whether link load (LL) is grater than Th_TC, and if so, a second step (step i) of RT traffic reduction is made by applying a further set of thresholds RT_2, to RT traffic.
- a further set of thresholds RT_2 Specifically, as shown in Table 2, the maximum permitted rate for RT-QoS group 1 users is reduced to 400 kbps, the maximum permitted rate for RT QoS group 2 user is reduced to 300 kbps and the maximum permitted rate for RT QoS group 3 user is reduced to 200 kbps.
- step j a check is made (step j) whether LL still exceeds Th_TC. If yes, further approaches to reduce link load are required.
- step k a check is made (step k) whether load balancing of NRT traffic is possible. This is shown by the bandwidth manager 10 obtaining information as to the link load levels of other links. If they have spare capacity, some NRT user sessions are transferred (step /) to those links instead. IfNRT load balancing is not possible, it may nevertheless be possible to load balance RT traffic so a ; check is made (step Ij) in that regard. If yes, some real time user sessions are transferred to appropriate other links (step m). hi some other, otherwise similar, embodiments, load balancing does not occur to NRT traffic first. Often transferred-to links have inferior performance or are only suitable for particular types of traffic, so it is usually only user sessions of users in low
- step m if load balancing is not possible, then as a last resort some user sessions, are terminated (step m), starting with user sessions of users of the lowest QoS group first. hi other, otherwise similar, embodiments, a check is made after load balancing whether LL > Th TC and if so some user sessions are then terminated.
- the bandwidth manager 10 accordingly relaxes the bandwidth thresholds, i.e. increases maximum permitted rates in an appropriate step or series of steps in accordance with Table 2.
- RT_2 to RT_1 an assessment is made whether LL is less than Th_2, where Th_2 is less than Th_TC . If yes, a further relaxation, for example NRT_2 to NRT_1 is made. In this way, basically speaking, congestion control is provided only when load level is too high.
- One advantage of the above approach is that control can be applied to both NRT and RT traffic relatively gradually. As it is not just NRT traffic that is restricted, this may be considered as a fairer approach then that of known systems.
- UMTS Telecommunications System
- CDMA2000 wireless networks CDMA2000 wireless networks
- 4G mobile networks such as Third Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, Long Term Evolution, LTE, networks
- networks using shared IP transport channels UMTS
- the link, the loading of which is at issue, is a so-called Iub interface
- the base station controller at which its bandwidth manager is located is the radio network controller, RNC.
- the network is a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) terrestrial access network (UTRAN), which is a type of wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) network for mobile telecommunications.
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- UTRAN Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- CDMA wideband code division multiple access
- the UTRAN network is basically as shown in Figure 3. Only one radio network controller 4' and two base stations 8' of the UTRAN network 2' are shown for simplicity.
- the UTRAN network 2' includes base stations 8'. hi the Figure, each of the base stations 8' is also designated "Node B" in accordance with UMTS terminology.
- a cell also referred to as a sector, is the radio-coverage area served by a corresponding antenna of a base station.
- Each base station typically has three cells 3, each covered by one of three directional antennas 5 angled at 120 degrees to each other in azimuth.
- Each radio network controller (RNC) 4' typically controls several base stations 8' and hence a number of cells 3.
- a base station 8' is connected to its controlling radio network controller (RNC) 4' via a respective interface 6' known as an Iub interface, hi use, a mobile user terminal 7 (often referred to as User Equipment (UE) in UMTS terminology) communicates with a serving radio network controller (RNC) 4' via at least one cell 3 of at least one base station 8'. hi that way, the mobile user terminal communicates with the UTRAN network 2.
- UE User Equipment
- Each radio network controller, RNC, 4' includes a bandwidth manager 10'.
- rate reduction of some RT services is possible, for example Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) voice rate adaptation, and streaming bearer downgrading.
- AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate
- streaming bearer downgrading is often possible; in particular off-loading voice user sessions and lower rate data user sessions whilst keeping higher rate data sessions in the UMTS network.
- QoS defined by QoS class.
- the Iub interface 6' In a UMTS network, the Iub interface 6' carries multiple types of service including voice, video and data. Bandwidth on the Iub interface 6' is limited, but as data services are often bursty, the Iub interface 6' often is deliberately oversubscribed. This is known as statistical multiplexing. This is acceptable because at an instant, it is very unlikely that all users are using the maximum of their allowed data rates.
- the aim of congestion control of the Iub interface is to appropriately meet requested QoS whilst maintaining a high level of use of the Iub interface.
- Figure 4 shows an example of the congestion control method described generally in respect of Figure 1 and 2 above, but now applied in the UMTS network shown in Figure 3, and with a different table of threshold values.
- Figure 4 shows three cycles of NRT then RT traffic control followed by load balancing then releasing user sessions.
- NRT non real time
- UMTS UMTS
- Interactive class There are two non real time (NRT) types of traffic in a UMTS system. These are Interactive class and Background class.
- QoS QoS associated with NRT user sessions. Specifically there are three basic levels of QoS priority, known as Traffic Handling Priority (THP), for Interactive class traffic, namely Interactive 1 (highest priority), Interactive2 (medium priority), and Interactive3 (lowest priority).
- TTP Traffic Handling Priority
- Interactive 1 highest priority
- Interactive2 medium priority
- Interactive3 lowest priority
- Classes of real time (RT) traffic are Streaming class and Conversational class.
- Traffic in Streaming class includes RT multimedia traffic such as for streaming video and streaming audio applications.
- Circuit Switched Voice, CSV traffic falls within the Conversational class.
- Table 2 Example Thresholds for congestion control in a UMTS network.
- NRT l corresponds to I/B_l
- RT_1 corresponds to Str min (minimum rate for streaming)
- NRT_2 corresponds to I/B_2
- RT_2 corresponds to ,CSV_mid (middle rate for CSV flows)
- NRT_3 corresponds to I/B_min (minimum rate for VB flows)
- RT_3 corresponds to CSV_min (minimum rate for CSV flows)
- the bandwidth manager 10' monitors the traffic load on the Iub interface.
- the bandwidth manager 10' determines the Iub load, level (step a'). This determination is done at set intervals, such as every 20 milliseconds, else continuously. A check is made (step b') as to whether the Iub load is below the congestion control threshold Th_TC, Whilst Iub load is below Th_TC, all user sessions can use up to the maximum permitted rate ("base rate") for the relevant type of session.
- base rate the maximum permitted rate
- base rate the maximum permitted rate
- a first step (step c') of traffic reduction is applied, namely new set of bandwidth thresholds VB_ ⁇ are applied to NRT traffic, namely of Interactive and Background classes, as shown in Table 2.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive 1 or Interactive2 class of user remains at 384 kbps whilst the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive3 class of user is reduced to 256 kbps and maximum permitted rate for a session of a Background class of user is reduced to 128 kbps.
- step d' A check is then made (step d') as to whether Iub load is less than Th-TC now that restrictions I/B_l restrictions have been applied. If Iub load still exceeds Th_TC a further traffic reduction is applied (step e'), this time to some RT traffic, specifically a bandwidth threshold Str_min is applied to RT traffic of Streaming class as shown in Table 2. The maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT Streaming class user is reduced to 64 kbps. The maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT user of CSV class is unaltered. In this way, in a congestion control cycle some NRT traffic is restricted first, then some RT traffic if the restriction of NRT traffic was not enough to bring the Iub load below the necessary threshold, Th_TC.
- N 1 RT traffic is undertaken in practise by signalling the number of Protocol Data Units, PDUs, that a source, such as the user terminal or RNC, can send over the Iub interface.
- PDUs Protocol Data Units
- the restriction to RT traffic is undertaken in practise by UMTS bearer reconfiguration procedures.
- step f After this first cycle ; of traffic control, a check is made (step f ) whether Iub load still exceeds Th TC. If yes, further traffic control is undertaken, namely a second step (step g") of NRT traffic reduction by applying a further set of thresholds I/B-2 to NRT traffic.
- a second step step g" of NRT traffic reduction by applying a further set of thresholds I/B-2 to NRT traffic.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive! class of user is reduced to 256 kbps
- the maximum permitted rate for a session ; of an Interactive2 class of user is reduced to 128 kbps
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive3 class of user is reduced to 64 kbps
- maximum permitted rate for a session of a Background class of user is reduced to 32 kbps.
- a second step (step i') of RT traffic reduction is made by applying a further restriction to RT traffic.
- a bandwidth threshold CSV_mid is applied to RT traffic of CSV class as shown in Table 4.
- the maximum permitted rate, initially 12.2 kbps, for a session of a RT CSV class user is reduced to 7.95 kbps.
- This is done using UMTS bearer reconfiguration procedures to reduce the CSV user codec rate, also known as Adaptive MultiRate, AMR.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT user of Streaming class is unaltered.
- a further check is made (step n') as to whether Iub load >
- a third cycle is entered step (step o') of NRT traffic reduction by applying a further set of thresholds I/B_min to NRT traffic.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive 1 class of user is reduced to 128 kbps
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive2 class of user is reduced to 64 kbps
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of an Interactive3 class of user is reduced to 32 kbps
- maximum permitted rate for a session of a Background? class of user is reduced to 8 kbps.
- step q' a third step of RT traffic reduction is made by applying a further restriction to RT traffic.
- a bandwidth threshold CS V_min is applied to RT traffic of CSV class as shown in Table 4,.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT CSV class user is reduced to 4.75 kbps. This is done using UMTS bearer reconfiguration procedures to reduce the CSV user codec rate.
- the maximum permitted rate for a session of a RT user of Streaming class is unaltered.
- a check is made (step r') whether Iub load still, exceeds Th_TC.
- step s' a.check is made (step s') whether load balancing of NRT traffic is possible, in partic ⁇ lar whether there are user sessions of an Interactive or Background class, and using a single Radio Access Bearer as these are suitable for load balancing. If so, some of these NRT user sessions are transferred (step t') either to shared channels, known as Forward Access Channels, FACHs, or to 2G (General Packet Radio System, GPRS, networks.
- FACHs Forward Access Channels
- 2G General Packet Radio System
- step u' IfNRT load balancing is not possible, it may nevertheless be possible to load balance RT traffic so a check is made (step u') in that regard. If yes, some real time CSV user sessions are transferred (step v') to 2G (General Packet Radio System, GPRS,) networks.
- 2G General Packet Radio System
- step w' if load balancing is not possible, then as a last resort some user sessions are terminated (step w').
- the bandwidth manager 10' makes an assessment whether Iub load is less than Th_2, where Th_2 is less than Th_TC. If so, the bandwidth manager 10' accordingly relaxes the bandwidth thresholds, i.e. increases maximum permitted rates in an appropriate step or series of steps in accordance with Table 2. After each relaxation, for example CSV_min to CSV_mid, an assessment is made whether Iub load is less than Th_2. If yes, a further relaxation, for example I/B_min to I/B_2 is made.
- the operator can alter the thresholds of Table 4 to alter the restrictions, for example either in favor of RT traffic or in favor of NRT traffic.
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