Patent ID: 8369217

Claim:
An architecture for monitoring quality of service in a telecommunication network comprising: a set of mobile terminals, each mobile terminal of said set of mobile terminals housing at least one measuring agent configured to interface with processes for managing application sessions of said telecommunication network and processes executed by the mobile terminal for directly measuring operating conditions of said telecommunication network to derive therefrom a set of measurement data by the respective mobile terminal, wherein said at least one measuring agent is further configured to measure a load state of the mobile terminal and of the telecommunication network and to adapt processing, management and collection of the measurement data by the respective mobile terminal according to the load state measured; and a management and configuration subsystem comprising a scheduling module for scheduling quality of service measuring campaigns, said scheduling module identifying a subset of said set of mobile terminals according to a set of identifying characteristics of a defined measuring campaign and configuring, for executing said defined measuring campaign at least one measuring agent housed by each mobile terminal of said subset according to said set of identifying characteristics, wherein each mobile terminal of said set of mobile terminals comprises: an elaboration agent configured to pre-process said set of measurement data derived from said application session; and a communication agent configured to send said set of pre-processed measurement data to said management and configuration subsystem.