# US 2021/0243641 A1 · Time-aware quality-of-service in communication systems > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0243641 A1 - Document ID: US20210243641A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/176,362 - Filed: 2021-02-16 - Published: 2021-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2018-08-14 - Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Sandip GANGAKHEDKAR; Hanwen CAO; Josef EICHINGER; Qing WEI; Hui NI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210243641A1 ## CPC - H04L 65/80: Responding to QoS - H04L 12/1407: {Policy-and-charging control [PCC] architecture} - H04L 47/2475: for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications - H04L 47/28: in relation to timing considerations - H04L 65/1063: Application servers providing network services (systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42) - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04L 67/306: User profiles - H04L 67/61: taking into account QoS or priority requirements - H04M 15/00: Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication {; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP} - H04M 15/66: {Policy and charging system} - H04M 15/8016: {based on quality of service [QoS]} - H04M 15/8033: {location-dependent, e.g. business or home} - H04W 4/24: Accounting or billing - H04W 28/0268: {using specific QoS parameters for wireless networks, e.g. QoS class identifier [QCI] or guaranteed bit rate [GBR] (negotiating SLA or negotiating QoS H04W28/24)} - H04W 28/24: Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service] - H04L 47/2416: Real-time traffic - H04L 69/08: Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A device translates between a first communication network, in particular a deterministic communication network, and a second communication network, in particular a mobile communication network, in particular a 5G communication network. The device is configured to execute an application function that is configured to translate between Quality-of-Service, QoS, parameters of the first communication network and QoS parameters of the second communication network. A QoS profile includes the QoS parameters of the first communication network translated by the application function and, optionally, additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network. The device is further configured to execute a signaling procedure configured to exchange the translated QoS parameters within the second communication network. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device for translating between a first communication network and a second communication network, the device comprising: an application function configured to: translate between quality-of-service (Qos), parameters of the first communication network and QoS parameters of the second communication network; generate a QoS profile comprising the QoS parameters of the first communication network translated by the application function and additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and provide the QoS profile to the second communication network, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the application function is further configured to trigger an establishment of a deterministic traffic flow based on the QoS profile. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the application function is configured to negotiate the QoS profile with the second communication network to ensure that the second communication network can satisfy the QoS parameters of the first communication network translated by the application function. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The device of claim 3, wherein the application function is configured to translate the negotiated QoS profile for the first communication network. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the QoS parameters of the first communication network comprise at least one of the following: a periodicity of a deterministic traffic flow, a maximum data rate of the deterministic traffic flow as inferred from a received configuration, a data rate variation of the deterministic traffic flow, starting times of the deterministic traffic flow, a starting time variation of the deterministic traffic flow, a duration of the deterministic traffic flow, a duration variation of the deterministic traffic flow, or a reception window of the deterministic traffic flow. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the application function is configured to provide an interface to the first communication network for receiving the QoS parameters of the first communication network, and wherein the application function is further configured to provide an interface to the second communication network which comprises providing the interface to a policy control function (PCF) of the second communication network or providing the interface via a network exposure function (NEF) to the PCF of the second communication network to provide the QoS profile to the second communication network. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device of claim 6, wherein the application function is configured to receive an acceptance message from the PCF based upon the second communication network accepting the QoS profile, and wherein the application function is configured to transmit a QoS configuration comprising the translated QoS parameters to the first communication network based on the accepted QoS profile. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The device of claim 6, wherein the application function is configured to receive a rejection message or a modified QoS profile from the PCP if based upon the second communication network rejecting the QoS profile, and wherein the application function is configured to transmit the rejection message or the translated QoS parameters corresponding to the modified QoS profile to the first communication network. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The device of claim 8, wherein the application function is configured to transmit a request to the PCF, wherein the request comprises the modified QoS profile in a case where the first communication network confirms the translated QoS parameters corresponding to the modified QoS profile. ### Claim at position 10 10-11. (canceled) ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the first communication network is a time sensitive network (TSN). ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The device of claim 12, wherein the QoS parameters of the TSN are based on gate control lists of TSN switches of the TSN. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The device of claim 12, wherein the QoS parameters of the TSN comprise at least one of the following: a time-triggered or deterministic resource type, an absolute time stamp for a start of a TSN data flow or a relative time offset to an absolute starting time, a period of the TSN data flow, or a data volume or a data rate of the TSN data flow. ### Claim 15 A policy control function (PCF) network entity, configured to: receive a quality-of-service (QoS) profile from application function (AF) network entity, wherein the QoS profile comprises QoS parameters of a first communication network translated into QoS parameters of a second communication network, and additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and transmit an acceptance message to the AF network entity upon acceptance of the received QoS profile, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The PCF network entity of claim 15, further configured to transmit a modified QoS profile to the AF network entity upon rejection of the received QoS profile. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The PCF network entity of claim 16, further configured to transmit a signal indicative of a policy related to the QoS profile or at least one modified QoS profile to a session management function network entity. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The PCF network entity of claim 17, further configured to: transmit the QoS profile or the at least one modified QoS profile to the SMF network entity to transmit information based on the QoS profile or the at least one modified QoS profile to a radio access network (RAN) entity to influence resource reservation of the RAN entity; and receive a message from the SMF network entity, the message comprising the QoS profile or the at least one modified QoS profile accepted by the second communication network or a rejection by the second communication network. ### Claim 19 A session management function (SMF) network entity, configured to: receive a policy related to a quality-of-service (QoS) profile from a policy control function Policy Control Function (PCF) network entity, wherein the QoS profile comprises QoS parameters of a first communication network, translated by a device into QoS parameters of a second communication network, in particular a mobile communication network, and additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and select a user plane function network entity based on the received policy related to the QoS profile from the PCF network entity, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The SMF network entity of claim 19, further configured to: receive the QoS profile from the PCF network entity; modify the QoS profile based on the policy received from the PCF network entity; transmit the modified QoS profile to a radio access network (RAN) entity to influence resource reservation of the RAN entity or the UPF network entity; receive a message from the RAN entity or the UPF network entity indicating an acceptance or a rejection of the QoS profile; transmit information about rules to the RAN entity based on the policy received from the PCF network entity; or transmit the modified QoS profile or the policy to the UPF network entity. ### Claim 21 A radio access network (RAN) entity, configured to: receive a quality-of-service (QoS) profile or related QoS rules from a session management function (SMF) network entity, wherein the QoS profile comprises QoS parameters of a first communication network translated by a device into QoS parameters of a second communication network and additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and reserve resources of the RAN entity based on the received QoS profile, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The RAN entity of claim 21, further configured to transmit a message to the SMF network entity, wherein the message indicates an acceptance or a rejection of the QoS profile. ### Claim 23 A user equipment (UE) of a second communication network, the UE being configured to: transmit a request for a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment to a session management function (SMF) network entity via a network access entity or an access management function (AMF) entity; and receive a radio resource configuration from the network access entity, wherein the radio resource configuration is based on a quality-of-service (QoS) profile, and wherein the QoS profile comprises QoS parameters of a first communication network translated by an application function network entity into QoS parameters of a second communication network, and additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The UE of claim 23, further configured to establish an end-to-end deterministic traffic flow in the second communication network based on the QoS profile. ### Claim 25 A user plane function (UPF) network entity of a second communication network, the UPF network entity being an end-to-end traffic flow terminating point in the second communication network for enforcing quality-of-service (QoS) rules received by a session management function (SMF), the UPF network entity being configured to: establish an end-to-end deterministic traffic flow in the second communication network based on a QoS profile (1612), wherein the QoS profile (1612) comprises QoS parameters of a first communication network translated by an application function network entity into QoS parameters of the second communication network, nd additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network, wherein the first communication network is a deterministic communication network and the second communication network is a mobile communication network. ### Claim 26 (depends on 15) The PCF network entity of claim 15, wherein the PCF network entity is further configured to signal a policy related to the QoS profile or at least one modified QoS profile to a session management function (SMF) or a user equipment (UE) of the second communication network to influence a user plane function (UPF) and a radio access network (RAN) entity. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The PCF network entity of claim 26, wherein the PCF network entity is further configured to: signal the QoS profile or the modified QoS profile to the SMF to transmit information based on the QoS profile or the at least one modified QoS profile to the RAN entity to influence resource reservation of the RAN entity; and receive a message from the SMF, the message comprising the QoS profile or the at least one modified QoS profile accepted by the second communication network or a rejection by the second communication network.