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

Claim 1:
2. A network node operative in a mobile communication network, and implementing an access gateway(AccessGw) operative to estimate a quality metric for a packet flow associated with an application and carrying latency sensitive content, the network node characterized by:
communication circuitry; and
processing circuitry operatively coupled to the communication circuitry and adapted to:
obtain one or more algorithms for estimating a late loss and the quality metric for the packet flow associated with the application; and
monitor network traffic;
classify packets as belonging to the packet flow associated with the application;
analyze network traffic parameters for the packets belonging to the packet flow associated with the application;
based on the obtained late loss algorithm, predict 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, predict a quality metric for the packet flow associated with the application; and
report the predicted quality metric.