Systems and methods for load control of a user device during network congestion
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsDaniel Mindler, James Mathison
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Abstract
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may receive traffic data associated with a coverage area and determine that there is network congestion. If there is network congestion, the device may identify a high-consumption user device. The device may perform a corrective action in connection with a load of the high-consumption user device, such as limit a throughput of the high-consumption user device. The device may perform a corrective action based on a policy obtained from a policy and control function.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a device in a core network, traffic data associated with a coverage area;
- determining, by the device, whether the traffic data satisfies a congestion threshold based on processing unit usage at one or more network components of the core network;
- identifying, by the device and based on determining that the traffic data satisfies the congestion threshold, a user device, in the coverage area, with a load that satisfies a load threshold;
- obtaining, by the device from a policy and control function, a policy for limiting the load of the user device;
- and
- limiting, by the device based on the policy, the load of the user device,
- wherein limiting the load of the user device comprises using a stepped-limiting mechanism associated with the processing unit usage.
A device, comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- receive traffic data associated with a coverage area;
- determine whether the traffic data satisfies a congestion threshold based on processing unit usage at one or more network components of a core network;
- identify, based on determining that the traffic data satisfies the congestion threshold, a user device with a load that satisfies a load threshold;
- and
- transmit, to a network device, an indication to obtain a policy for limiting the load of the user device from a policy and control function and to perform a corrective action to limit the load of the user device based on the policy,
- wherein limiting the load of the user device comprises using a stepped-limiting mechanism associated with the processing unit usage.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device of a core network, cause the device to:
- receive an indication that traffic data of a coverage area satisfies a congestion threshold and that a load of a user device in the coverage area satisfies a load threshold based on processing unit usage at one or more network components of the core network;
- identify, based on receiving the indication, data traffic flows for the user device;
- and
- perform a corrective action in connection with the data traffic flows for the user device,
- wherein the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to perform the corrective action are configured to perform the corrective action based on using a stepped-limiting mechanism associated with the processing unit usage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.