US 2026/0075002 A1 · ADAPTIVE BEARER CONGESTION SIGNALING

Abstract

A radio network node sets up a bearer with a user equipment to facilitate a communication session associated. The node may determine that radio link congestion prohibits delivering session traffic according to a particular quality-of-service via the bearer, and may indicate, to the user equipment, the congestion, or congestion effects, in a bearer congestion report. If a subscription associated with the user equipment does not enable the particular quality-of-service being guaranteed, the user equipment may determine, based on the congestion indicated by the node, a reduced processing quality to apply to transmitting buffered uplink traffic to the node and may report to the node a changed modulation/coding scheme to be used to transmit the buffered traffic. If a subscription associated with the user equipment guarantees the particular quality-of-service, the node may switch to a higher quality/priority bearer to facilitate transmission of buffered uplink traffic according to the particular quality-of-service.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, by a radio network node comprising at least one processor from at least one user equipment, a congestion corresponding to at least one bearer corresponding to at least one user equipment to result in at least one determined congestion;
facilitating, by the radio network node, transmitting, to the at least one user equipment, at least one bearer congestion report indicative of at least one congestion management indication corresponding to the at least one determined congestion;
and
facilitating at least one traffic delivery operation, with respect to the at least one user equipment, that is based on the at least one determined congestion.

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A radio network node, comprising at least one processor configured to process executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving, from core network equipment, adaptive bearer switching configuration information indicative that delivery of at least one traffic flow corresponding to at least one user equipment is to be facilitated by the radio network node via at least one bearer based on at least one determined congestion corresponding to at least one communication link between the radio network node and the at least one user equipment;
transmitting, to the at least one user equipment, at least one bearer congestion report indicative of at least one congestion management indication corresponding to the at least one determined congestion;
and
performing at least one traffic delivery operation, with respect to the at least one user equipment, that is based on the at least one determined congestion.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of radio network equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving, from core network equipment, adaptive bearer switching configuration information indicative that delivery of at least one traffic flow via at least one established connection with at least one user equipment is to be facilitated by at least one bearer based on at least one determined congestion;
with respect to the at least one bearer, determining at least one congestion parameter value to result in at least one determined congestion parameter value;
analyzing the at least one determined congestion parameter value with respect to at least one congestion parameter criterion to result in at least one analyzed determined congestion parameter value,
wherein the at least one analyzed determined congestion parameter value is determined to be the at least one determined congestion based on the at least one analyzed determined congestion parameter value being determined to fail to satisfy the at least one congestion parameter criterion;
transmitting, to the at least one user equipment, at least one bearer congestion report indicative of at least one congestion management indication corresponding to the at least one determined congestion;
and
initiating at least one traffic delivery operation, with respect to the at least one user equipment, that is based on the at least one determined congestion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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