Patent ID: 11930392
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory including a computer program code,
wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least:
configuring a quality-of-service flow within a packet data unit session in a mobile communication system by using a quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication based on setting information of the quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication, in which minimum required latency and maximum allowed latency for delivery of user plane data packets are defined,
said quality-of-service flow being for delivery of user plane data packets including data of a time-sensitive communication system,
receiving, from an ingress node of the time-sensitive communication system, a user plane data packet in the configured quality-of-service flow within the packet data unit session, and
processing the received user plane data packet in accordance with the quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication by using a delivery-related parameter in the user plane data packet,
said delivery-related parameter being indicative of a time attribute of the user plane data packet,
wherein the processing of the received user plane data packet comprises:
inserting, in the user plane data packet, a time stamp indicating an ingress arrival time when the user plane data packet is received by the mobile communication system,
wherein the delivery-related parameter comprises the time stamp, and
forwarding the user plane data packet, in which the time stamp is inserted, to a next user plane node in the mobile communication system towards a session downstream side.