Device for accessing a telecommunication network for the selective degradation of data flows
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsDamien Galand, Laurent Clevy, Olivier Marce
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Abstract
A device (RA) for accessing a telecommunication network (N) comprising means for transmitting data flows between at least one first telecommunication client (A) connected to the core network by means of an access network (NA) possessing throughput performances lower than the core network (N) and at least one second telecommunication client (B, S); degradation means for degrading at least one quality parameter of at least one data flow. The invention is characterised in that the degradation means make use of a module associated with each session, for carrying out the degradation.
Claims9
A device (RA) for accessing a telecommunication network (N) comprising
- means for transmitting data flows between at least one first telecommunication client (A) connected to the said telecommunication network by means of an access network (NA) possessing throughput performances lower than the said telecommunication network (N) and at least one second telecommunication client (B, S) accessible through the said telecommunication network (N), the said information flows being organised in sessions, each data flow of one and the same session providing communication between the same telecommunication clients;
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- degradation means for degrading at least one quality parameter of at least one of the said data flows in order to compensate for the difference in throughputs between the said telecommunication network and the said access network,
- characterised in that the said degradation means make use of a module associated with each session, for carrying out the said degradation, the said module being determined by the said first client (A).
An access device according to the preceding claim, in which the communications with the policy server conform to the CORBA protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.