Telecommunication Service Session Optimization via Priority-Based Throttling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current approaches to optimizing end user service sessions in mobile broadband access networks fail to consider the unique context of each service session, leading to suboptimal Quality of Experience (QoE) and neglect the relationships between sessions, resulting in inefficient resource allocation and poor service quality.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that prioritize and throttle service sessions based on compliance with user-defined expectations, using a compliance measure to determine if sessions are meeting quality thresholds, with lower priority sessions being throttled to optimize resource allocation and enhance high-priority sessions' QoE, implemented through a distributed semantic model and parallel processing to ensure near real-time optimization across large networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If current approaches to optimizing end user service sessions are used, then network-wide statistical monitoring and analysis can be performed, but the unique context of each service session is not considered, leading to suboptimal Quality of Experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the network optimization problem into individual service session contexts, where each session is analyzed separately with its own unique context (radio conditions, user location, service type). This allows the system to move from aggregate statistical monitoring to session-specific optimization, improving QoE while maintaining network-wide oversight through the management entity that coordinates multiple cell-level optimizations.
2Productivity
If network-wide statistical monitoring is performed, then overall service delivery can be analyzed, but relationships between individual sessions are neglected, resulting in inefficient resource allocation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the management entity receives QoE measurements from multiple cells and uses this information to dynamically adjust resource allocation. The system continuously monitors session performance and feeds this information back to optimize resource distribution, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently based on actual service delivery needs rather than static configurations.
3Power
If optimization actions are taken at cell level, then bandwidth availability can be improved, but individual end user session optimization is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each cell to optimize its own service sessions based on local conditions (radio context, user density, service types). Each cell's management entity can make localized optimization decisions tailored to its specific context, such as adjusting parameters for video streaming versus voice calls, while the overall network maintains coordinated resource management through the central management entity.
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AI summary
A method of optimising telecommunication services for a plurality of end users of a plurality of service sessions, each service session having a priority level, the method comprising the steps of: receiving (301) compliance measure indicating that the service experience of at least one end user is compliant, for a snapshot, with expectations of the at least one end user within a telecommunication service providing a plurality of service sessions to a plurality of end users; determining (303) if the received compliance measure is less than a predetermined threshold; and if the received compliance measure is determined to be less than a predetermined threshold, throttling (305) at least one of the plurality of service sessions, that has not been throttled and has the lowest priority level, to optimise telecommunication services.