Application performance improvement in radio networks

A method, comprising:

• receiving from a radio network a request corresponding to one or more application flows between the radio network and a mobile node, wherein the one or more application flows is an existing service provided by the radio network having a quality of service;
• and wherein the received request comprises a description of options for presentation to a user, wherein the options comprise:
• making a selection indicating declining to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to an upgraded services provided by the radio network enabled to support the one or more application flows with a higher quality of experience than currently supported by the existing service provided by the radio network;
• and
• making a selection indicating accepting to upgrade the existing service provided by the radio network to the upgraded service provided by the radio network enabled to support the one or more application flows with the higher quality of experience than supported by the existing service provided by the radio network;
• configuring the description of options for presentation on a display of the mobile node;
• detecting selection of one of the options by the user;
• and in response to detection of a selection by the user indicating a choice to upgrade from the existing service provided by the radio network to the upgraded service provided by the radio network, sending from the mobile node to the radio network an indication that the user selected the option to upgrade the existing service to the upgraded services provided by the radio network;
• wherein the received request comprising the description of user options is sent by the radio network in response to a determination that the quality of experience is compromised, the determination being based on one or more of:
• recognition that the mobile node is not experiencing a quality of service of the existing service provided by the radio network sufficient to support a new application flow;
• and
• degradation of application performance for an application corresponding to the one or more application flows.