METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION OF QUALITY OF SERVICE PROFILES IN MOBILE NETWORKS

摘要

Current subscriber-aware networks provision individual subscriber parameters in a centrally located repository and return the parameters to entities for quality of service (QoS) enforcement on a per-subscriber basis. In other words, there is a one-to-one mapping of each QoS profile for each subscriber. Attaching QoS profiles to each subscriber can result in very high resource requirements, such as a larger memory footprint or multiple policing profiles, resulting in a non-scalable network resource. To resolve resource explosion problem without sacrificing functional requirements, an example embodiment of the present invention allows few service classes with QoS parameters to exist and derives various subscriber plans out of them. The example embodiment is useful to generate subscriber plans dynamically as subscribers join network and thereby helps to reduce QoS resource requirements dramatically, without sacrificing any functional capability.