OMA USE OF AN OMA MANAGEMENT OBJECT TO SUPPORT APPLICATION-SPECIFIC CONGESTION CONTROL IN MOBILE NETWORKS

摘要

A technique for using an open mobile alliance (OMA) management object (MO) for congestion control in a mobile network is described. A new type of OMA MO for application specific access control (ASAC) can include an IP (internet protocol) flow description that can be used to build applications with sophisticated granularity. Priorities may be assigned to IP flows based on the IP flow description. UE (user equipment) may receive such OMA MO and may also receive application-constraint information regarding the congestion level in the mobile network to which the application at the UE is intended to connect. The UE may have a connectivity manager (CM) that determines whether the application can establish a connection with the mobile network based on the application-constrained information and the priority level of the application's associated IP flow.