Identification of cascaded multi-connectivity and mitigation of cascaded multi-connectivity interference effects

A detection unit to discover cascaded multi-connectivity scenarios in a communication network,

• wherein the cascaded multi-connectivity scenarios comprise possible combinations of multi-connectivity connections as i) a multi-connectivity end-to-end implementation, ii) a multi-connectivity implementation between a user equipment (UE) and a provider, which provides an interface towards services in the Internet;
• and/or iii) a multi-connectivity implementation between a residential gateway (RG) and a provider connecting UE and service,
• wherein a combination of the different multi-connectivity approaches leads to a chain of multi-connectivity units in a row or to a stacked arrangement if the multi-connectivity solutions work on a different layer,
• wherein the detection unit comprises:
• an interface configured to communicate with the communication network, wherein one or multiple multi-connectivity devices of the network are designed to send type-of-transmission signals to the interface, wherein the type-of-transmission signals comprise information about the used multi-connectivity technique;
• and
• an evaluation unit programmed with a cascaded multi-connectivity detection algorithm, wherein the evaluation unit is provided with the type-of-transmission signals and analyzes the occurrence and/or a possible occurrence of cascaded multi-connectivity usage within the communication network based on the type-of-transmission signals.