Patent ID: 8165070
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile host in a heterogeneous network system that integrates communication systems, the heterogeneous network system providing support for a communication between the mobile host and a network node in a heterogeneous network over a plurality of access networks, wherein the mobile host provides a common platform for the plurality of access networks, the mobile host comprising: means for performing periodical and event based quality of service measurements on an established connection between a quality of service enabled transmitting and receiving entity in the mobile host and a quality of service enabled receiving and transmitting entity in one of the plurality of access networks, such that the quality of service is measured as at least one of data throughput in bits/s, data transmission delay, data transmission jitter, data packet loss rate, and data packet error rate, wherein the quality of service measurements being the local Quality of Service measurements that are used in the decisions to perform connection reconfigurations within the heterogeneous network during traffic; means for requesting information regarding a service level agreement for one of the plurality of access networks from the network node in the heterogeneous network, said service level agreement information comprising quality of service information; control and measurement database means for storing said service level agreement information and results of said quality of service measurements; traffic routing means for performing one of releasing and re-establishing the established connection; and control logic means for invoking the traffic routing means based on said quality of service information and said service level agreement information stored via the control and measurement database means of the mobile host; wherein support for the communication between the mobile host and the plurality of access networks occurs simultaneously.