Patent ID: 8443404
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A network system comprising: an access service network hosting a plurality of access service network gateways and a plurality of base stations, with each access service network gateway connected to a subset of base stations; an orchestration device executing a life-cycle quality-of-experience model for video-on-demand flows, receiving content from at least one video-on-demand streaming server; and a plurality of subscriber stations, receiving a plurality of video-on-demand flows, in communication with the orchestration device through at least one of the base stations, wherein the orchestration device: tracks past variables associated with each of the subscriber stations, generates a predictive model for expected buffer levels at each of the subscriber stations based on the tracked past variables, determines an expected buffer level for each of the subscriber stations using the predictive model, assigns a quality-of-experience state to each of the subscriber stations based on the determined expected buffer level, and determines subscriber station assignments to at least one base station and an allocation of base station resources to the subscriber stations based on the assigned quality-of-experience states.