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US 2025/0030641 A1Published application
Enhanced network with data flow differentiation
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsHuahui Wang, Ravi Raina
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a data flow for radio communication between the radio access network and user equipment, classifying the data flow as one of a large data flow and a small data flow, adjusting priority of the data flow by reducing relative priority of the data flow responsive to classifying the data flow as a large data flow, and communicating data including the data flow between the radio access network and the user equipment according to the adjusted priority. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- assigning, by a processing system including a processor, a priority to each respective data traffic flow of a plurality of data traffic flows, wherein the plurality of data traffic flows are received at a radio access network, wherein the each respective data traffic flow is for radio communication between the radio access network and respective user equipment, wherein the each respective data traffic flow can be classified as a large data traffic flow or a small data traffic flow, wherein the assigning the priority comprises assigning a relatively lower priority to the each respective data traffic flow responsive to a classifying of the each respective data traffic flow as a large data traffic flow and assigning a relatively higher priority to the each respective data traffic flow responsive to a classifying of the each respective data traffic flow as a small data traffic flow, wherein the assigning the priority further comprises assigning the each respective data traffic flow to a predetermined Quality of Service (QoS) class of the radio access network, wherein the predetermined QoS class has a predetermined priority, and wherein the assigning the priority further comprises assigning a weight to the each respective data traffic flow according to the classifying so that the each respective data traffic flow classified as a large data traffic flow has a lower weight within the predetermined QoS class;
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- communicating, by the processing system, the each respective data traffic flow to the respective user equipment, wherein the communicating is responsive to an assigning of communication resources to the each respective data traffic flow, and wherein the communication resources are assigned according to an assigned priority of the each respective data traffic flow.
A radio access network, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- adjusting a priority of a data flow, wherein the data flow is for radio communication between the radio access network and user equipment, wherein the adjusting the priority of the data flow is to produce an adjusted priority, wherein the adjusting the priority of the data flow comprises reducing relative priority of the data flow responsive to a classifying of the data flow as a large data flow, wherein the adjusting the priority of the data flow further comprises assigning the data flow to a Quality of Service class, wherein the adjusting the priority of the data flow further comprises adjusting weights of data flows assigned to the Quality of Service class, and wherein the adjusting the weights comprises adjusting the weights according to the classifying of the data flow to produce the adjusted priority so that large data flows assigned to the Quality of Service class have a relatively lower priority and small data flows assigned to the Quality of Service class have a relatively higher priority;
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- communicating the data flow between the radio access network and the user equipment, wherein the communicating the data flow is according to the adjusted priority.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- classifying each of a plurality of data flows as a large data flow or a small data flow, wherein each of the plurality of data flows is assigned for radio communication between a radio access network and user equipment in an area served by the radio access network, wherein the classifying is only in response to a determination that a relative congestion level of the radio access network exceeds a congestion threshold;
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- communicating the data flows between the radio access network and the user equipment based on assigned radio resources, wherein the assigned radio resources are according to priorities of the data flows, and wherein priority of data flows classified as large data flows has been reduced relative to priority of data flows classified as small data flows so that the data flows classified as small data flows have priority for the radio communication between the radio access network and the user equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.