Patent ID: 9456378
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile node for measuring quality of service (QoS) in a tunneling layer using multiple radio access technologies (RAT), having computer circuitry configured to: receive packets of a data flow from separate tunnel connections, wherein a RAT communicates via the tunnel connections; and generate a QoS metric for the data flow from a QoS parameter within an enhanced tunneling header of a received packet transmit a message request to an multi-RAT control gateway to change a dynamic load balancing (DLB) between the tunnel connections based on the QoS metric; receive, during a downlink DLB process, a message response from the multi-RAT control gateway with a start sequence number (SN) of a tunnel packet of the flow indicating when the DLB changes; receive, during an uplink DLB process, a message response from the multi-RAT control gateway acknowledging the DLB change; and transmit, during the uplink DLB process, a message request to the multi-RAT control gateway with the start SN of the tunnel packet of the flow indicating when the DLB changes.