Hybrid Network-Based and Device-Based Intelligent Radio Access Control

摘要

Concepts and technologies are described herein for a hybrid network-based and device-based intelligent radio access control. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a radio access technology (“RAT”) selection system and a mobile device cooperate to enable an intelligent multi-radio access control that can select a RAT that is best-suited for the mobile device. The RAT selection system can select networks based upon network conditions, policies, user profiles, applications, and/or other information, and provide a list of the networks to the mobile device. The mobile device can utilize local device information to select a network from the list. In this manner, the RAT selection system and the mobile device can cooperate to steer traffic to various networks operating in accordance with different RATs to improve user experience, especially in network traffic congested areas, and to efficiently leverage network resources for mobile telecommunications and WI-FI networks.

主权项

1. A radio access technology selection system comprising:
a processor; and a memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
receiving a policy rule,receiving network load information for a plurality of radio access networks to which a target mobile device is capable of connecting, the plurality of radio access networks operating in accordance with a plurality of radio access technologies, the network load information comprising both historic network load information obtained based upon network load experienced by the plurality of radio access networks in a past time and current network load information obtained based upon network load experienced by the plurality of radio access networks in near real-time,generating, based upon the policy rule and the network load information, a priority list specifying a priority order in which the target mobile device should select the plurality of radio access networks,instructing the target mobile device to obtain, in response to receiving the priority list, local device information comprising performance measurement information and channel quality information, the performance measurement information comprising video mean opinion score test results obtained by the target mobile device via a video mean opinion score test performed by the target mobile device,instructing the target mobile device to determine, based upon the priority list and the local device information, a radio access network to connect to from the plurality of radio access networks in the priority list, andsending the priority list to the target mobile device.