Patent ID: 11902115
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, in a mobile communication network, of estimating a quality metric for a packet flow associated with an application and carrying latency sensitive content, the method characterized by:
obtaining one or more algorithms for estimating a late loss and the quality metric for the packet flow associated with the application; and
monitoring network traffic;
classifying packets as belonging to the packet flow associated with the application;
analyzing network traffic parameters for the packets belonging to the packet flow associated with the application;
based on the obtained late loss algorithm, predicting a late loss for the packet flow associated with the application, the late loss being a maximum allowed jitter before a receiver will consider a quanta of data to be lost;
based on the obtained quality metric algorithm and the predicted late loss, predicting a quality metric for the packet flow associated with the application; and
reporting the predicted quality metric.