Differential latency measurement
AssigneeIPCom GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAchim Luft, Maik Bienas, Martin Hans, Andreas Schmidt
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of selecting an optimal communication routing between a UE and a core network wherein a plurality of differing communication paths are establishable between the UE and the network. Duplicate packets are transmitted over two communication paths and a latency difference determined between the two paths. This latency difference is used to select a communication path for subsequent communication.
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A method of selecting an optimal communication routing between a user equipment, UE, device and a core network wherein a plurality of differing radio communication paths are establishable between the UE device and the core network, the method comprising:
- in a state where only a first radio communication path is established between the UE device and the core network, determining at a first one of the UE device and a core network entity that a communication path latency measurement shall be performed and informing the other one of the UE device and the core network entity that the communication path latency measurement will be performed;
- establishing at least a second radio communication path between the UE device and the core network;
- transmitting over at least the first radio communication path and the second radio communication path duplicate data packets;
- determining from the data packets received over the first and the second radio communication paths a latency difference measurement between transmission over the first radio communication path and the second radio communication path;
- using the latency difference measurement choosing the radio communication routing from the first radio communication path and the second radio communication path for subsequent communication.
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