Flexible Metrics Reporting Control for Media Streaming Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing metrics collecting solutions for media streaming services lack flexibility in controlling metrics reporting time, leading to potential security risks and inefficient data collection, as they cannot implement metrics reporting requests for specific time segments and lack permission capabilities for user equipment.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allow an access network device to obtain and transmit metrics reporting configuration information, including a metrics reporting time segment, to user equipment, enabling flexible control over metrics reporting and user equipment permission for data collection, thereby improving security and control over metrics reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If metrics reporting configuration information is transmitted to user equipment before a metrics reporting time segment starts, then the control plane's ability to control metrics reporting time is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The access network device transmits metrics reporting configuration information to user equipment before the metrics reporting time segment starts. This preliminary action enables the control plane to control metrics reporting time flexibly, resolving the contradiction by advancing the configuration transmission to achieve better control capability while managing system complexity through timely delivery.
2Measurement precision
If metrics reporting is activated for specific time segments, then the precision of metrics collection is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The metrics reporting process is segmented by time segments, with configuration information specifying start and end times for reporting. This segmentation enables precise metrics collection during specific time periods while managing device complexity through structured time-based configuration rather than continuous monitoring.
3Reliability
If user equipment permission capability is added for metrics reporting, then the security is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
User equipment generates a metrics reporting configuration response message based on received configuration information and feeds it back to the access network device. This feedback mechanism enables permission capability where user equipment can accept or reject metrics reporting configuration, improving security through user authorization while maintaining ease of operation through automated response generation.
Data Source
AI summary
A metrics collecting method includes: obtaining metrics configuration information, the metrics configuration information including information of a metrics reporting time segment; generating metrics reporting configuration information of a media streaming service; and transmitting the metrics reporting configuration information to a user equipment to cause the user equipment to perform metrics reporting of the media streaming service. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may control the metrics reporting of the user equipment with enhanced flexibity.