Method for operating an access network for a mobile radio system

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for supporting the quality of service (QoS) in packet data transmission between a wireless terminal (MT), having data communication with a radio access network, and a data network (LN), in which method data transmission between the terminal (MT) and the radio access network (2) is controlled by at least one mobile IP router (5, 5′, 5″). Further, in the method data is transmitted in radio flows between the wireless terminal (MT) and the mobile IP router (5, 5′, 5″). In the method, a flow label is defined for at least one radio flow and the desired quality of service is defined for the radio flow. Data appointed to a terminal is transmitted between two nodes of an access network in IPv6 packets. The flow label field of an IPv6 packet is used for transmitting an item of information by which the node that receives the packet makes a selection among a number of paths on which the packet can be routed.

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