Systems and methods for measuring available bandwidth in mobile telecommunications networks
AssigneeAscom Network Testing AB
InventorsAnders Hedlund, David Degerfeldt
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Abstract
A network device receives probe packets communicated by a user equipment device. The network device communicates response packets back to the user equipment device, including timestamps, and/or other information. The user equipment device may be configured to test the performance of different portions of a wireless network (i.e., determine an available bandwidth measurement throughput (ABMT) of the wireless network) by accessing different network devices (or information associated with different network devices).
Claims18
A method for performing an available bandwidth measurement in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving information associated with a packet train transmitted between a user equipment device and a network device operating within the wireless network;
- determining bits in the packet train (BPT);
- determining an available bandwidth measurement throughput (ABMT) of the wireless network based on the equation:
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- wherein CTTI is an integer number representing the ceiling of the number of TTIs (transmission time intervals) needed per packet train.
A system for performing an available bandwidth measurement in a wireless network, the system comprising:
- a processing device comprising one or more processors configured to:
- receive information associated with a packet train transmitted between a user equipment device and a network device operating within the wireless network;
- determine bits in the packet train (BPT);
- determine an available bandwidth measurement throughput (ABMT) of the wireless network based on the equation:
- ABMT
- =
- BPT
- CTTI
- *
- TTI
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- per
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- second
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- wherein CTTI is an integer number representing the ceiling of the number of TTIs (transmission time intervals) needed per packet train.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having one or more computer-readable instructions thereon which when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
- receive information associated with a packet train transmitted between a user equipment device and a network device operating within a wireless network;
- determine bits in the packet train (BPT);
- determine an available bandwidth measurement throughput (ABMT) of the wireless network based on the equation:
- ABMT
- =
- BPT
- CTTI
- *
- TTI
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- per
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- second
- ,
- wherein CTTI is an integer number representing the ceiling of the number of TTIs (transmission time intervals) needed per packet train.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.