APPLICATION QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN A COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

An application manager node in a communication network, including a transceiver module configured to monitor data communication in the communication network, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive, from at least one terminal node, application information related to at least one application data stream associated with at least one application operating in the at least one terminal node, update, based on the application information, a relationship map that includes a relationship between each of the at least one application data stream and an access node, determine an overall quality metric value associated with the access node based at least in part on the application information received from one or more of the at least one terminal node, and select, based on the overall quality metric value, at least one mitigation option for one or more of the at least one application data stream.