Media service delivery over a wireless relay in a data communication network

摘要

A Long Term Evolution (LTE) network delivers a media service that uses an Access Point Name (APN) Quality-of-Service (QoS) Class Identifier (QCI) to serve User Equipment (UE) over a wireless relay. A relay control system transfers a session request indicating the APN QCI to a wireless base station serving the wireless relay. The base station and the wireless relay configure a wireless network bearer to use the APN QCI. Responsive to the network bearer configuration, the wireless relay transfers a relay bearer request for the APN QCI to the relay control system. The relay control system returns a session request to the wireless relay. The wireless relay and the UE then configure a wireless access bearer to use the APN QCI. The wireless relay exchanges user media over the wireless access bearer and the wireless network bearer between the UE and the wireless base station using the APN QCI.

主权项

1. A method of operating a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for a media service that uses an Access Point Name (APN) Quality-of-Service (QoS) Class Identifier (QCI) to serve User Equipment (UE) over a wireless relay, the method comprising:
a relay control system receiving a macro bearer request for the APN QCI for the UE and responsively transferring a base station bearer/session request indicating the APN QCI for delivery to a wireless base station serving the wireless relay; the wireless base station receiving the base station bearer/session request, and in response, the wireless base station and the wireless relay configuring a wireless network bearer to use the APN QCI for the UE; the wireless relay, responsive to the wireless network bearer configuration, transferring a relay bearer request for the APN QCI for the UE for delivery to the relay control system; the relay control system receiving the relay bearer request for the APN QCI for the UE and responsively transferring a relay bearer/session request indicating the APN QCI for the UE for delivery to the wireless relay; and the wireless relay receiving the relay bearer/session request, and in response, the wireless relay and the UE configuring a wireless access bearer to use the APN QCI for the UE.